Favorite Manga/Graphic Novel?

[Raven_C]

Favorite Graphic Novel has to be The Arrival. Absolutely beautiful and no dialogue at all yet it's perfectly clear. Highly highly highly recommend checking it out when really looking at a comic that lets its art speak for itself.

Heck yea, The Arrival!! Such perfect storytelling without text. Shaun Tan is amazing.

I also like, This Was Our Pact. It's a short comic/graphic-novel by Ryan Andrews. It's magical and poignant.

[SpavVy]

I have favorites for both actually...

Manga: Dogs Bullets and Carnage by Shirow Miwa
I really enjoy Dogs because I find the storyline interesting, it takes place sometime in the far future in a European city where illegal genetic manipulation and crime have become vary common, their are three floors which is the surface city, the underground and the below and below is where all the crazy stuff happens and has a connection to the pasts of the four main characters and it holds answers that they need to know.

As for a graphic novel I believe she said she's working on getting it printed, it's a webcomic called Zoophobia made by Vivziepop who is also on Youtube. She just has such a fun style and it makes me miss the good cartoons that Cartoon Network used to have. Although this isn't geard towards children. She also does animations and their stunning. The characters are all unique in both designs and personalities, I just crack up when the main character Cameron has to deal with all these strange creatures that she is terrified of and she's the only human in Safe Haven thus far, so she's not having any human interaction and must learn to get over her fears because she is stuck there forever. That would be like me forever trapped on an island with Michael Myers xD God I hate those Halloween movies....

[ratique]

Hands down, Battle Angel Alita.

I love everything about it, the characters, the world, the story... everything. It impressed little teenage me greatly, has influenced my art and drawing style a lot. I do credit it to be the comic that ultimately made me get into drawing - first as a hobby, then as a job. It even is represented in my new comic a little bit, even though I had a co-writer who has a completely different background.

To this day I am hoping that Cameron forgets all this Avatar nonsense and finally makes his Battle Angel Alita movie, as he promised many years ago. I have been waiting for it ever since he purchased the movie rights to it.

But leave me alone with Last Order. For whatever reason I hate that one.

[Kura]

I'm not much into anime and manga, I like it fine but not enough to have read a whole bunch of it. Hunter x Hunter was my faves back when I read that.

[AnnaLandin]

This is SUCH A HARD QUESTION.

Because seriously. The amount of amazing comics out there in the world is astounding, and I will never have time to read them all. I'm just going to make this easy on myself and list several, in different categories.

Favourite manga
While I have a soft spot for sports- and shounen-manga (why hello there, Eyeshield 21, Yowamushi Pedal, Kongou Bancho and all the other stuff I read), I have a wholehearted and dorky love for the highschool yakuza comedy Gokusen, and am genuinely upset that I can't find it licensed in English.

Other favourites include Blade of the Immortal, Ran to Haiiro no Sekai (Aki Irie is amazing) and Iwaoka Hisae's Aomanju Forest-series. My tastes are... varied, to say the least.

Favourite US-comics
Hellboy is right at the top of this list, because it is a tour de force of amazing art, great storytelling and a commitment to one's story. Even though Hellboy occasionally runs very closely parallell to the superhero-genre (Mignola even worked for Marvel once), Mignola never once gives in to the tropes so common in that genre of ressurrecting dead characters and so on. Once you die in Hellboy, you're dead. Unless you're a ghost. Of his other works in the same universe - BPRD, Baltimore, Lobster Johnson, etc. - my favourite is Witchfinder.

Hellboy gets to share the stage these days, though, with the new Ms Marvel, Saga and Kelly Sue Deconnick/Emma Rios' masterpiece Pretty Deadly, which I - no joke - seriously think is the best comic of 2014.

Also, Linda Medley's Castle Waiting. It's beautifully drawn, and just so cozy.

European comics
Enrique Fernandez draws strange and amazing comics - Aurore, L'isle sans souri, Brigada, etc. - and is well worth checking out, though I don't think his work is available in English.

Peter Bergting draws wonderful comics as well, and is also really nice and friendly in person.

Webcomics
Evan Dahm's Rice Boy, Order of Tales and Vattu. Zack Morrison's Paranatural. Minna Sundberg's Stay Silent, Stand Still. M Falke's Parallax.

... but really, too many to name.

[kitsuneonwheelz]

I like Sailor moon,Fairy tail and parasyte! But I like any good story regardless.

[Basil]

tOkYo GhOuL.

And also the latter part of D.Gray-Man. Don't you even with me right now.

[UltHamBro]

I've been a long time fan of Detective Conan (a.k.a. Case Closed). It was one of the first anime series that I was really hooked on when it aired on TV, around 2008 or 2009, and after it ended, I started buying the manga. I still need to go buy the last volume, which came at the beginning of this month.

[Doubtcent]

I used to love American comics like DC and Marvel, especially the older ones. However the styles got to me. The fact that all the heroes and many of the villains were the same kind of buff, and all the women were the same kind of build, and all of them wore spandex, I was bored. But then I got into manga. My first one was Fullmetal Alchemist. I was like, HOLY CRAP! THIS IS WHAT COMICS CAN BE? WHY DOES IT READ THIS WAY?

Now I follow like forty different series. Anytime I go to the library I grab anything I can. Sometimes I check out thirty volumes at a time (If I have a bag, even more).

My Favorites are Black Butler, Hunter X Hunter, Tegami Bacchi, Bleach, ONE PIECE!!!, Toriko, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Bakuman, and Trigun. Sorry Naruto. I used to love you, but the Shippuden style just doesn't look as fluid to me. I'll still read it, but dat uncanny valley tho.

[ArtistHan]

@MylCreates I first really started getting into manga because of Cardcaptor Sakura~ I love CLAMPS's style and even thought they use a lot of cliches, they use them in a way that's just so addicting! However, like you, I tend to stop reading their stories halfway when it starts getting too long. I've only ever finished Cardcaptor Sakura :/

@AnnaLandin I've only read two volumes of Blade of the Immortal, but I reference the artwork a lot because I use traditional mediums for my webtoons as well. I just love the style!

@vincentprendick I've always wanted to check out HunterxHunter but I'm hesitant ever since I learned that fans also call it Hiatus x Hiatus lol I don't think I could stand an indefinite cliff hanger T^T

[Doubtcent]

The Hiatus is over for now. But is's very worth the wait either way. (At least read the first arc or two. If you don't like how complicated it gets, then that's just how it is)

[Ayumi]

Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist is my all time favourite. It's just amazing! The story has everything what a good story need. Action, comedy, drama, love...And it's full with twists! The characters are lovely, and very realistic. And the art! It seems simple, but actually it isn't. The backgrounds are very detailed and the action scene's are amazingly done. I couldn't find better than this one.

On the other hand I prefer to draw fantasy/shoujo type stories, so if I need to name a favourite one, that would be Marmalade Boy, and Penguin Brothers.

[ArtistHan]

Omg Marmalade Boy! I used to be obsessed with it in high school haha

[Ayumi]

It's so funny! I loved it! I'm sad, that the anime version wasn't as good, as the manga.

[purrlpankras]

Hmm I got a few.

Pandora Hearts, Arata the Legend, Monochrome factor, Threads of Time, Samurai Deeper Kyo and 07 Ghost.
And the No.6 Novel.

[Foxjorch]

My favorite are Akira and Maus

[Icelug]

Even so I don't read lots of manga, I usually see lots of anime. But my favourite comic of all time is definitely Maus. But I'm into Marvel and DC too, specially 80's stuff.

[zihobbit]

Wow, yeah, Alita was great. Have you read Ashen Victor? Same author, Yukito Kishiro. This time he draws with a lot of influence from Frank Miller's Sin City. It's beautiful. The story happens in the same universe that Alita, its a motor-ball story.

[zihobbit]

Oh, man! You are totaly right. Both are amazing. Quite the hard stuff, however. A trauma is guaranteed.

[zihobbit]

Ok.

I grew up with Dragon Ball, and I wouldn't be here doing what I'm doing if it wasn't for Akira Toriyama. But my favourite manga is Urusei Yatsura, of Rumiko Takahashi, who I think must be the Kami manifesting itself through the pannels.

If I have to point what I think is the perfect comic, I would say Asterix. It is because I see it flawless, with everyone of its components in the right measure.