it’s graphic, and it’s awesome

Posted on By Wil

DailyBits compiled a list of seventeen — seventeen! —  free and dowloadable graphic novels.

DailyBits, calls them "sensational" and I agree. Look at some of them:

Fell #1 from Warren Ellis

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police roster numbers three-and-a-half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again.

Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan

When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women.

Sandman #1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On the way, Morpheus encounters Lucifer and demons from Hell, the Justice League, and John Constantine, the Hellblazer.

Next time someone asks you to define awesome, you may want to point them to this list (you could also show them this collection of people posing with album covers in a rather clever way.) It’s also a spectacular resource to use if you’ve ever wanted to introduce people to graphic novels.

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Comments (27)

  1. I just want to thank you for including Neil Gaiman on your list. He’s one of my favorites and his prose novels are as great as his graphic ones. Kudos to you!!

  2. Sandman for on a computer screen seems like a travesty with my beautiful Absolute Sandman volumes waiting for me. 😉
    But that’s awesome! I don’t know a lot of graphic novels, so I’ll definitely have to check those out. Thanks for the link!

  3. Wil you are fantastic for always linking to such cool stuff I would never find for myself!
    Fell #1 hooked me by the first page…read the whole thing. Thanks again

  5. Free and downloadable is cool and all, but I like to hold and read and move to a different part of the house and run and show my wife the cool details. So I buy when I can. But I really do not like to be around people. Online bookstores keep me in books and now HeavyInk is getting me back into comics.
    I just checked and they carry Fell, Crossing Midnight, Deadman Walking, Y the Last Man, Sandman, DMZ, Doom Patrol, Hellblazer, and Swamp Thing (and a couple thousand other titles).

  7. That is such an awesome list! Thank you for posting it. Some of those I have in book form and love and so I’m pretty sure I’m going to love most of the rest of them. What a great way to get people interested in new titles. Sharing is awesome. And free downloads will inevitably lead me to purchase something cool.
    Cheers!

  8. Thanks for posting this. One of my friends on Facebook had just suggested a couple days ago I should check out Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned. Checked it out, loved it, will have to buy the whole series now.

  10. Wil left out one of the best comic book series in the last few years — Fables. It has been a captivating read. Download that one and read it — you won’t regret it!

  11. This is fantastic. What a great opportunity to turn my out-of-state/out-of-country friends on to great comics!
    Only way it could be better if they had Transmetropolitan or Preacher Vol. 1. Heh.
    Thanks for posting this!

  13. I happened to pass by Fell and Y: The Last Man at the local branch of the Auckland City Library and nabbed them both before anyone else could borrow them. Now I am going to be tracking down Fell for purchase!
    -grumbles about the cursed library enticing him to buy more books-

  16. Y: The last Man and Sandman are hands down the two best comics I’ve ever read.
    Y finishes it’s run this month. I can’t wait to read the last issue… then I’ll be sad….
    Highly, highly HIGHLY recommended.

  18. Loves me some free goodies, and there are some great titles in the bunch, but “free and downloadable graphic novels” is a bit of a misnomer. The majority of these (I didn’t download all of them) are PDF’s of just the first issue that’s featured in the collection. Still a good deal, but “free and downloadable samples from a graphic novel” would be a more apt description.
    Which is a bummer, because GN’s haven’t been in my budget for a long time and I would love to read at least half of those!

  19. “Y: The Last Man” and “Fables” are fabulous!
    I’m reading them the old fashioned way…issue by issue.
    I can’t wait around for the Graphics compilations.
    Bill Willingham (“Fables”) is very talented.

  20. “Y: The Last Man” and “Fables” are fabulous!
    I’m reading them the old fashioned way…issue by issue.
    I can’t wait around for the Graphics compilations.
    Bill Willingham (“Fables”) is very talented.

  23. Preview on the Mac doesn’t work with the Sandman comic, though it works fine with Evince on Linux, so it must be something about Preview.

  24. Thanks, Wil, I just spent the rest of my day reading every single damn one of these. I’ve read all the Sandman ones before, but the others…I’m going to have to start going to the comic book store again. Haven’t been since Johnny the Homicidal Maniac was current…

  27. Hi Wil!
    Just had to go back to this entry since I just now, via themovieblog.com, found a totally amazing online novel. You’ve probably already heard about it but still. Zombies vs Vampires trying to save humans! And better yet, it’ll apparently become a movie as well!
    http://www.lastblood.net

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