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fandomsecrets2012-05-14 06:50 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-16 01:57 am (UTC)(link)I've only read a couple of his short stories, but Joe Kubert (a Korean vet himself) is pretty much synonymous with US "war comics" from about the '50s onwards, from the POV of soldiers, and may be worth looking up for you. He did a work called Fax from Sarajevo recently, but I don't know much about it.
Will Eisner's non-Spirit work is largely based in early-to-mid-20th century New York (To the Heart of the Storm is semi-autobiographical, recounting his life just up to, but not including, WWII; it also covers part of his father's life in Vienna as well, iirc).
Jason Lutes: Berlin sounds like a good match -- it follows a group of people in Germany from 1928-33, all with varying awareness of the changes in political climate around them.
Art Spiegelman's Maus: first comic to win a Pulitzer; flashes between the author's father's recollections of surviving the Holocaust and the contentious father-son relationship the two have in the current day (while autobiographical, there's a lot of breaking the 4th wall and the visual cat-and-mouse metaphor that's set up. Meta Maus, a companion book, just came out recently).
In more recent history, maybe Joe Sacco's Middle East journalism comics that started in the '90s (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza). I remember Palestine being very, very self-aware in a way that might not work for some people. Footnotes in Gaza is the most recent -- only read an excerpt, but it felt a lot more polished than his earlier work and it stuck with me.
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -- again, semi-autobiographical, set largely in Iran during the First Persian Gulf War. There was a recent movie based off of it.
Possibly also Guy Delisle: Shenzhen, Pyongyang, Burma Chronicles. Much more recent travel memoirs of a French-Canadian animator, with varying degrees of political commentary between the three. Tends towards a dry sarcasm.
For historical ha-ha, many of Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant strips (available both online and in print) might amuse you.
Less historical but still realistic: Alex Robinson: Box Office Poison (although this is obviously '90s), Too Cool to be Forgotten, Tricked! -- very "cartoony" style, but some of the most variety in body types and faces I've seen in comics, and the dialogue and personalities feel very true-to-life. BOP and T! follow different groups of people in NY, TCTBF a middle-aged man who ends up reliving part of his high school experience. Relationships do form the dramatic backbone of his work, but they are not all romantic (and those that are are definitely not idealized). (His other work, Lower Regions, was an over-the-top D&D comedy, complete with mild cheesecake, so maybe not so much that.)
A couple other things with a variety of reasonably-proportioned people:
Fun Home (Alison Bechdel): autobiographical, largely about the relationship between the author and her father as she grew up in his funeral home business, with emphasis on how they each approached their homosexuality (she came out while he was closeted)
The Finder series (Carla Speed McNeil): sci-fi, set in a universe somewhat similar but definitely divergent from ours -- Voice (the most recent one and probably easiest to find), Talisman, or Dream Sequence are imo the stronger and probably easiest-to-jump-into standalone stories.
...So, uh, hope this helps!
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-17 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)I'd like to add: Jerusalem Chronicles (Guy Delisle's latest), Kaboul Disco (Nicolas Wild - his work resembles Guy Delisle's a bit), and Lewis Trondheim's Approximate Continuum Comics (not historical, but oh so good).
Realistic: Dupuy & Berberian (as a kid, I looooved Henriette, but their other titles are also awesome), Manu Larcenet, Penelope Bagieu (although her style tends to be a bit too 'girlish' to my tastes).
Historical: I heard some very good things about "De Cape et de Crocs" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_cape_et_de_crocs) but I haven't read it yet. I think the conclusion is to be released in the next few days.
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