Most notably I’d say anything by Jeff Smith. His old series Bone and his new series RASL. It’s a real side that Jeff is beginning to explore. He’s out-charmed everybody, now it’s time for him to try something else. Other comics I read are Hellboy by Mike Mignola, and lots of the new stuff, lots of the work of people like James kochalka. He’s one of the new herd that are approaching comics without the prejudices my generation came in with. So because they are making all sorts of things that my generation would call mistakes, that were trained not to do, these are young artists without prejudice and I would say (to be fair) they do about 80% of it wrong and about 20% of it brilliantly. I’m learning all kinds of things from ‘em.
Frank Miller talks about what “modern comics” he’s reading, during his Reddit AMA.
Jeff Smith’s “new series” RASL launched in 2008 and finished in 2012, and James Kochalka is a 47 year old man who has been producing comics professionally since… 1998 or so? I’m not so sure he can be called “the new herd” anymore.
