Comix recommendations for the Kindle

September 12, 2011 3:28 AM

Comix recommendations for the Kindle 3?

Whatup y'all.

I have a Kindle 3 and I want to read comix on it. All sorts: manga, graphic novels, smut, chapbooks, historical classics, what-have-youse.

I have Calibre and Mangle.

Recommendations?

posted by beshtya to Writing & Language (3 answers total)

20th Century Boys - I'm so seriously impressed by this manga - so thoughtful, so intelligent, brilliant art. Slice of life meets giant robots meets end of the world but life goes on story.

Manga in general fits the Kobo/Kindle readers very well - smaller original size (pocket book or trade paperback) - and usually the original is black and white. I don't know many western titles that would go well on my Kobo - things like Bone or Strangers in Paradise don't have colour, but the pages are larger (and thus are hard to read when shrunk).
posted by jb at 6:20 AM on September 12, 2011

But be careful reading the plot summary or character descriptions on Wikipedia - there are lots of spoilers and this is one of those stories where you don't want to be spoiled.
posted by jb at 6:53 AM on September 12, 2011

Yotsuba&! is virtually impossible not to like. It's like Calvin & Hobbes, set in suburban-ish Japan, without any cynicism of any sort. All of the fun and silly things about young kids with absolutely no saccharine.
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:07 PM on September 12, 2011