Free Online Graphic Novels by Acclaimed Creators
- Posted by Johanna on February 10, 2010 at 11:18 am
- Category: Digital and Webcomics
Have you checked out the New York Times Magazine’s Funny Pages? Some great graphic novels are posted there in PDF. If you’re looking for some online comic reading, you could do a lot worse than these:
- George Sprott (1894-1975) by Seth (It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken), now in print from Drawn & Quarterly
- Watergate Sue by Megan Kelso (Squirrel Mother, the upcoming Artichoke Tales)
- Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes (Ghost World)
- Low Moon by Jason (Hey, Wait…), now in print from Fantagraphics with four other new stories
- The Murder of the Terminal Patient by Rutu Modan (Exit Wounds)
- Prime Baby by Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese)
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February 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM
That is great!
I do agree that if you can afford to put one of your graphic novels online you should, share the art! That is what the internet is all about!
February 10, 2010 at 4:21 PM
How does this relate to the copyright issues around Google posting people’s work without their consent? Are these posted with the cooperation of the artist and publisher, and is the copyright acknowledged? I can’t really tell from reading part of Seth’s piece how this is being handled.
February 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM
The NY Times commissioned these works from the artists, and the right to reprint them online was likely part of the contract. The original publisher is the one putting them online.
February 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM
I wish I knew these were there before – I just bought “George Sprott” from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. It is quite a book to hold in one’s hands though!
February 13, 2010 at 8:42 AM
[...] Graphic Novels at Funny Pages Beth wrote on February 13th, 2010 at 08:42:25 AM Comics Worth Reading points out six graphic novels presented for free at the New York Times’ “Funny Pages” [...]
February 21, 2010 at 8:02 PM
There was also a Chris Ware story, part of Building Stories, I think, that ran in the Funny Pages, but for some reason, that one’s not online with the others.