I can highly recommend Berlin, by Jason Lutes, set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic 1928-1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_%28comic%29
There's also Robert Crumb's many works, for example, Draws the Blues and his Kafka biography:
And then there's Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (but you can forget the film version, which is awful)
Does anyone know of any other graphic novels set between say, 1900-ish and the end of WWII?
Check out Will Eisner's, "A Contract with God Trilogy"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Con...tract+with+god
and for that matter, anything by Will Eisner. He also created the Spirit.
Twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week, no job is too big, no fee is too big!
Absolutely, Will Eisner is a genius!
There is the excellent retelling of Jack the Ripper From Hell
I also enjoyed Stagger Lee, concerning history and myth of the famous blues song
I'm sure I'll think of more later, but for now I have to get back to work
The Goon definitely has a retro vibe, but also has zombies, mad scientists, fishmen, and aliens...I highly recommend the series!
Who says the golden era has to be tasteful and dignified?
Gotham By Gaslight
"The future isn't what it used to be."~~Louis Cyphre
The Twelve is an excellent book where they took 12 obscure 1940 Timely/Marvel characters and put them in the modern day. It's unfinished and it leaves you on a cliffhanger, but in February of this year Straczynski (the writer) said they were going to finish it later this year.
Even unfinished, it's pretty good.
Incognegro put out by Vertigo a couple of years back.
LDZane Pinchback, a reporter for The New Holland Herald of New York, is a black man who can pass for white. Zane uses this ability to go undercover to investigate lynchings in the 1930s South.
Excellent suggestions, everyone (and being a Bat-Fan, I've always loved Gotham by Gaslight).
Don't forget that the late Dave Stevens' Rocketeer has been collected in a lavish hardcover edition. It's perfect for anyone with even a passing interest in 1930s pulp adventure (or beautifully-drawn comics). Unfortunately, the pages have been recolored and suffer a bit from Photoshop Airbrush Syndrome...traditional, flat comic coloring seems more appropriate for the material.
I just finished reading The Black Diamond Detective Agency
Fantastic full color painted art by Eddie Campbell and a true "penny dreadful" story with turn of the 19th century gangsters, private detectives train explosions, and gunfights, Great Stuff.
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