[UA] Comics

[Robert Rossney]

Fidel Santiago wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I´m trying to become a comic consumer but I don´t find anyone that 
> attracts me. Could you recommend me UA style comics?
First off, you should read Sandman, Watchmen, and From Hell irrespective 
of whether or not they're UA.  And Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the 
Valley of Wind (which I push on anyone who wants to read comics).  Those 
are among the very best work ever done in comics.

I think that a lot of Daniel Clowes's work is UA in tone, if not in 
substance.  Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron is outstandingly creepy.  
For instance, very early on, the protagonist comes into town and two 
cops beat him up, take off his shoe, and carve a strange symbol into the 
heel of his foot with an Exacto knife - a symbol that, it turns out, 
Hitler had tattooed on the back of his neck.  (That's a very small facet 
of the overall weirdness that is to be found there.)  The entire run of 
Clowes's Eightball is worth reading, if you can find it.

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is very UA too, as others have noted.  
And most anything by Warren Ellis, whose blog you should be reading if 
UA speaks to you.