Seth T. Hahneさんのイラストまとめ

1991 - Bone by Jeff Smith

I don't know if this is the first absolute cliche on this list, but despite an ending I hate with all of me, Bone is one of the great 20th century achievements of the form - and absolutely deserves the praise it gets. Read in B&W for sure.

1994 - Nausicaä And The Valley Of The Wind by Hayao Miyazaki (translated by David Lewis and Toren Smith and Rachel Thorn, lettered by Tom Orzechowski or Walden Wong)

Of all the great adventures told through the comics medium, Nausicaä is pretty easily among the best of show.

1995 - Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki (no translator/letterer credited)

While In Clothes Called Fat critiques sharply the society that demands to see women primarily thru the lens of objectification, Okazaki savages that society then lights it up as a bonfire warning to all. 🔥

1997 - In Clothes Called Fat (no translator/letterer credited)

Anno postulates that in a world maintained and governed by the sexual objectification of women that no woman can successfully survive the ravaging of society and escape with her true self intact. Evergreen.

1999 - Planetes by Makoto Yukimura (translated by Yuki Johnson, lettered by Susan Daigle-Leach)

While definitely about a space janitors, it's more their dreams, their nightmares, their motivations, their circumstances, and the question of meaning that lurks behind every life.

2000 - Dorohedoro by Q Hayashida (translated by AltJapan Hiroko Yoda and Mat Alt, lettered by Kelle Han and James Gaubatz)

Dorohedoro is a marvel. There is nothing like it. It took 20 years to build and is a singular accomplishment.

2002 - Town Of Evening Calm by Fumiyo Kouno (translated by Naoko Amemiya and Andy Nakatani)

The insidious hand of history and the buoyant touch of nostalgia. Greed, fear, guilt, shame, anger, regret, sorrow, love, laughter, hope, song, and joy. It's all here.

Beautiful.

2004 - The Summit Of The Gods by Jiro Taniguchi (adapting Baku Yumemakura, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian)

Combining edge-of-seat tension with grand, terrifying beauty, Taniguchi spends five volumes on the mystery of human resolution, ambition, and the demand to challenge.

2005 - Children Of The Sea by Daisuke Igarashi (translated by JN Productions, lettered by Jose Macasocol)

So here's something: I feel in greater connection to nature when reading Children Of The Sea than when actually out in nature itself. An astonishing achievement.

2009 - Far Arden by Kevin Cannon.

Cannon makes comedy feel effortless. FA skirts the border of believability, neither quite falling into a world that jibes with reality nor going so far into fantasy that we don’t understand there are certain mortal rules common to us all.