Requested The Collected Toppi: Vol.1 The Enchanted World from my library's interloan service, and the library that responded gave me Vol 1-3! Three library loans for the price of one, haha.
I dig Toppi's linework. He's a very technical artist, and the work is very detailed and intricate. I'm also a sucker for black and white comics, which is mostly why I requested him after seeing a few people recommend him online for b&W bandee dessinee. The stories from Vol. 1 are all dark fairy tales basically, they're quite short and simple in the storytelling, not a lot of dialogue or plot. But damn, are they atmospheric.
If you have a local library, you should definitely check if they have an inter-library loan service. The majority of comics I have requested, they've been able to find. I also got The Collected Crepax Vol.1 from them as well, which I'll post when I get the chance.
Been in a B&W type of mood, if you guys have any more recommendations, let me know ;)
edit: Also, noticed that lemm.ee scaled the image, so here's a link to the larger original in all it's glory: https://ibb.co/prxDH8Hs
That's a fantastic list of recommendations. I have only encountered Tardi briefly, but I can't remember the work. I do remember liking his style though. Didn't he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it's called).
Woodring's stuff is generally pretty fantastic and wildly weird. Been awhile since I had anything by him. His work reminds me of what would happen if you took old 20s-30s cartoons and had the animators drop a few hits of acid.
Rich Corben's horror work in the 70s/80s was phenomenal, truly one of the greats.
The rest I'm not entirely familiar with, but you've given me some stuff to keep and eye out for. Thanks!
Yeap!
Me, I find it good, while eccentric. Rather dated at this point, but still fun to read...
District 14, if you can find it...
I'll check it out. A surprising amount can be found through the library inter-loan service.