grant morrison

in my opinion grant morrisons work should be an influence to all in any artistic profession. i am a long term fan of mr morrisons work which i first became aware of during his fantastic 'new x-men' arcs where the well known characters were taken to new perspectives and he took new characters even further, charging into issues suck as teenage drug abuse and pregnancy to the rejection of facism in the new world order. i have activly seeked out more graphic novels by him most recently coming across 'we3' a tale of animal cruelty and a dark military future, again touching on issues of facism.
although i enjoy to read grants work on mainstream titles such as 'new x-men', 'jla earth2' and recent 'superman' run, his best works are in my personal opinion his own creations such as 'we3', 'the invisibles' and 'animal man'. in his own titles he realy manages to go to town with the characters and manages to say alot more about soceity oftern attacking governments, and always giving his characters flaws which make them all to real in the minds of a reader. morrison likes to break the rules and do new things for example in 'animal man' he makes a comic hero aware of his ficticious nature elevating the writer to the place of a god, this is probably a result of his guilt for killing of so many characters in his sterling career.
grant morrison oftern works along side artist frank quietly, who has a realistic and detailed style, he delivers odd layouts and really gets the reader into the visual narrative of the story.

monkey comic

The star of the monkey comic was based on no particular monkey but the generally curious and food-motivated behaviour of the countless groups of monkeys I have observed over the years unlike the hippo it lives by its sharp wits and instincts.
the comic is set in barren future in the wake of some apocalptic event, the monkey now travels this world searching for food alone. he discovers the 'key' when wandering the woods in search of food and then embarks on a kind of odessy wherin the hero is driven, perhaps out of his own control towards the ruins of a human city, wherin the story concludes.

Tom Gauld

tom gauld is an illustrator and comic artist, he works using line drawing techniques in very simple and effective ways often showing simple characters in detailed enviroments. i own some copies of his work my favorite of wich is the 'guardians of the kingdom', a story of two medieval soldiers who work as the garrison of a collosal wall much like the great wall of china, it details their lives together and conversations among wich my faveorite is when they are trying to remember which side they are defending. tom gauld publishes his work with 'carbanon press' alonside simone lia at this site
http://www.cabanonpress.com/index.htm

jeff brown

the indie comic king jeff makes comics documenting 'his life experiences' in titles such as 'be a man', 'clumsy' and 'unlikely' as well as his 'cat stories', 'big head' and 'minature sulk' making jeff an all around indie ace. his art is simple and quite scruffy looking from first glance but this is among the qualities in his work which when combined with the narrative and characterisation give his comics the everyman kind of feeling that allows most of his audience to relate to him and his stories.
my favorite of jeff browns publications is called 'i am going to be small' and is a collection of 3-4 panel stories and drawings making it very different to his other works. i like this book the most because it is a practice i have become acustomed to in my notebooks over the past year, its really funny too.