{"id":4069,"date":"2010-07-13T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2010-07-13T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:07:08","slug":"peter-chungs-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"Peter Chung’s Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a><\/a>From a 1998 Animation World Network<\/em> article<\/a>\u00a0by Peter Chung:<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a list of my personal favorite comics stories in no particular order. My choices are based as much on mastery of narrative form, as on originality of conception. Each of them appear to have been impelled by an inner vision; they are not comics inspired by other comics, but rather by dreams, obsessions, yearnings.<\/p>\n

1. Baptism<\/em>, Makoto-chan<\/em>, Fourteen<\/em> by Kazuo Umezu
\n2. Savannah<\/em> by Sanpei Shirato
\n3. Mighty Atom<\/em>, No-man<\/em>, Phoenix<\/em> by Osamu Tezuka
\n4. The New Gods<\/em> by Jack Kirby
\n5. The Airtight Garage<\/em>, Arzach<\/em> by Moebius
\n6. The Incal Saga<\/em> by Moebius and Jodorowsky
\n7. The Tower<\/em>, The Hollow Earth Series<\/em> by Schuiten and Peeters
\n8. The Jealous God<\/em>, Envie de Chien<\/em> by Cadelo
\n9. Be Free!<\/em> by Tatsuya Egawa
\n10. Hard-Boiled<\/em> by Geof Darrow and Frank Miller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a 1998 Animation World Network article\u00a0by Peter Chung: Here is a list of my personal favorite comics stories in no particular order. My choices are based as much on mastery of narrative form, as on originality of conception. Each of them appear to have been impelled by an inner vision; they are not comics inspired by other comics, but rather by dreams, obsessions, yearnings. 1. Baptism, Makoto-chan, Fourteen by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[802,1026],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-liquid-television","tag-peter-chung"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}