Book surfeit
It's crazy, this never happens. I'm usually cautious about book commitments, because I know how deeply I tend to get embedded into them, so I read one book at a time - I might dip into another, so I know where I'm going next, but right now I'm reading:
- M. Wylie Blanchet, The Curve of Time
- Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
- Craig Thompson, Blankets
- Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake
Just finishing Wiersema now, at least. What a read that's been!
Comments
I'll look for Epileptic.
Alan Moore's 'V for Vendetta'
Warren Ellis's 'Transmetropolitan Series'- less literary than Moore but lots of interesting SF ideas with a distinctly political theme throughout.
If you take a slightly broader reading of the title then I guess the following might be of interest:
Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis'- about a girl/woman growing up in Iran.
Art Speigleman's 'Maus' - recounting his father's experiences as a Jew in Poland (IIRC) during the Nazi invasion.
If you take a broader interpretation still that encompasses stories about one person's perceived utopia dissolving (so for example 'Blankets' would count). Then the following are worth reading:
Eric Drooker's 'Flood'- A man loses his job and then things go downhill, of interest for its almost entire lack of text.
Osamu Tezuka's 'Ode to Kirihito' - Well to do doctor investigates strange disease and turns into a dog!
Charles Burn's 'Black Hole' - coming of age turns sour in very weird ways.
For something very odd indeed, but which may well not meet your remit, then I recommend 'The Frank Book' by Jim Woodring. A story set in a psychedelic fantasy world inhabited by the protagonist Frank who is a cat, along with lots of other peculiar and disturbed creations. The bright colours make it look all very child-like and happy but on closer inspection there is a lot of sinister happenings.
Hope those are of some help. Would be interested to hear what other ideas you come up with or have already thought about.