I Read Comic Books discussion

What trade should we read together for our November Comic Book of the Month? Nominate your pick here!

This month's theme is comics about travel.

Titles nominated this month must be primarily about traveling. If you have any questions or concerns, please send a message to mod Kate, who is happy to help. You can find the complete 2019 theme calendar here.

Remember:
- Nominated titles must be TPB comics or original graphic novels.
- Only the first volume of a series may be nominated, unless the group has already read the previous volume(s) as a book of the month. To see what we've read, check out our group's bookshelf.
- Nominated titles cannot have the same writer as the previous month's BotM winner. This month, that's George Takei and Justin Eisinger.
- Nominated titles must fit the month's theme. To see past and upcoming themes, check out the 2019 theme calendar.
- Only one nomination per person.
- You can "second" a nomination in place of nominating a different book, but this will count as your nomination for the month. Seconded books will receive an additional chance of being selected in the randomization process.
- If a title you nominate wins BotM, please refrain from nominating another title for one month to give others a chance.

Nomination & Voting Schedule:
To better accommodate our increasing number of members, the nomination and voting schedule is as follows every month:

16th: Nomination forum opens
23rd: Nomination forum closes; 5 nominations are selected at random; Voting opens
30th: Voting closes

More details on our updated nomination and voting procedures can be found here.

I’ve never read it, but I’ve heard good things about The Initiates by Étienne Davodeau.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Craig Thompson's sketch-journal "Carnet de Voyage" is one of my favorites of the genre. Not quite a traditional story though as much as a stream of consciousness accounting of his travels, so it may not fit the ask?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

WANDER: A Johnny Wander Travelogue Collection

This is a very laid back, autobiographical diary-OGN of small stories by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh about their travels across the world (namely, Japan). I've only read part of this but it's pretty unique.

Is this supposed to be non-fiction travel? or is fiction OK?

Either way, I'm finding it hard to find good examples. For fiction, I've come up with
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Samaris by François Schuiten
Lulu Anew by Étienne Davodeau

Ed wrote: "Is this supposed to be non-fiction travel? or is fiction OK?

Either way, I'm finding it hard to find good examples. For fiction, I've come up with
The Arrival by [author:Shaun Tan|3..."

Both non-fiction and fiction count! Would you like to nominate one of these titles?

Although I really enjoyed Carnet de Voyage as recommended above, I'd like to recommend Get Naked for this prompt. It sounds like a pervy concept, but it's really not - it's basically one guy's travels around the world, experiencing how other cultures aren't so weird about the naked body as Americans, and coming to terms with/being cool with his own body. Each story has a different artist which I thought was cool too!

I would like to nominate:

CASTLE IN THE STARS SPACE RACE OF 1869 VOL 1 OGN

What if man journeyed into space in 1869, not 1969? In search of the mysterious element known as aether, Claire Dulac flew her hot-air balloon toward the edge of our stratosphere - and never returned. One year after her disappearance, her son and husband are delivered a tantalizing clue: a letter from an unknown sender who claims to have Claire's lost logbook. The letter summons them to a Bavarian castle, where an ambitious young king dreams of flying the skies in a ship powered by aether. But within the castle walls, danger lurks, for -there are those who would stop at nothing to conquer the stars!

Writer/Artist : Alex Alice

I'll nominate Thoughts From Iceland: A Travelogue Comic, it's the first travel comic that I think of, and I only ever read part one, and have never got around to checking out the rest. My memory was that it was a really chill experience.

Kate wrote: "...Both non-fiction and fiction count! Would you like to nominate one of these titles?"

I've decided not to. I checked for availability in multiple formats, and only "Lulu Anew" seemed easy enough to get. But something else by the same author is already nominated, as well as something else I'd rather vote for, so I'll skip nominating anything.

I've changed my mind and will nominate something: Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin.

I'd like to nominate The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir.

"In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation."

Lenny wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir."

It is good. I've read the first 3 volumes. The rest aren't available in English yet.