Recommend some comics featuring Native Americans

[ronniejames]

I suppose I will post this in the Vertigo forum since they publish Scalped and I didn't see a all purpose comics forum. Point me towards it if I missed it, please.

I am a fan of comics featuring Native Americans. However, it is a bit hard to find them done well, avoiding stereotypes and cliches. Scout, Skin Walker, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Trickster and Scalped stick out in my mind as some of the best. I even have a collection of Golden and Silver Age trash comics like Tomahawk, early Turok and White Indian. I get a guilty pleasure out of these titles for some reason. Bronze age Mike Grell makes me giggle too.
So, I am looking for recommendations for comics of this type. Doesn't have to be just Natives based in the U.S., South America is fair game as well as any Indigenous culture (Muktuk is based in Siberia if I remember right). All genres are welcome, quality is the only criteria. Something I would like to see is a comedy series set on a modern reservation.

Any thoughts?

[Red Dawg]

The best Native American series I've read is Time Spirits (Marvel/Epic, 1984-86). This limited series ran 8 issues. The back issues are readily available and cheap. (For example, My Comics Shop/Lone Star has all 8 issues averaging $1 or so each plus shipping.)

The series had humor, history, mysticism and was quite respectful of Native American culture. It also had some Tom Yeates' best art plus guest artists Al Williamson, Steve Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch.

[GiantRaven]

Batman Inc #7

[FanboyStranger]

The best Native American series I've read is Time Spirits (Marvel/Epic, 1984-86). This limited series ran 8 issues. The back issues are readily available and cheap. (For example, My Comics Shop/Lone Star has all 8 issues averaging $1 or so each plus shipping.)

The series had humor, history, mysticism and was quite respectful of Native American culture. It also had some Tom Yeates' best art plus guest artists Al Williamson, Steve Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch.

Yeah, you've already read most of the really great material, but Time Spirits is a good choice. It's a bit trippy and impenetrable at times, but still a good series. Steve Bissette was posting about Mike Netzer intending to reprint the series in one volume around the time of Steve Perry's tragic death, but I don't know if it was ever done. Actually, I'm going to dig around a bit and find out because I really want to read it.

[FanboyStranger]

Just thought of another good one: The Amazon by Steve Seagle and Tim Sale. Very much a formative book for both esteemed gentlemen, but very good as well.

[diablo7]

ghost dancing by jamie delano and richard case.

[squashmaster]

Not Vertigo, but definitely get ahold of the 90s Valiant Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. So fucking bad ass.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Not Vertigo, but definitely get ahold of the 90s Valiant Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. So fucking bad ass.

Awesome comic backed by two great N64 games.

[Jack-In-The-Box]

I would think that Love & Rockets contains many of the themes you're looking for. Poverty, tradition, spirituality etc. It's a lot more than that, but you might find it interesting.

[Scott Taylor]

Right now I am reading a graphic novel of Red Prophet, a book by Orson Scott Card that is set in America in the early 1800s. The premise is "what if folk magic were real?" So you have this historical background, with pretty authentic culture of both white people and Native Americans, but with the Native Americans and a very few white people having these subtle magical powers. I highly recommend it.

[SteveGus]

If I remember rightly, the Neil Young one shot Greendale had some Native American and shamanic themes.

But, let's face it, what you really need is Prez.

[Donna M.]

Come on, is no one going to recommend Finder by Carla Speed McNeil? It's an amazing book with great stories, serious world-building and gorgeous art. McNeil herself refers to it as "Aboriginal Sci Fi" and the mostly-main character Jaeger Ayers is Ascian, which is what Indigenous people are called in the story.
Seriously, this is one of those books that comes up on best of lists for a reason, do yourself a favour and check it out.

[ronniejames]

Thanks for all the replys guys, I will have to check some of that stuff out.
I picked up the first Finder compendium a year or so back, but haven't read it. My partner in crime read it and said it was great. The current story in Dark Horse Presents has been very good, so I outta read the compendium.
Prez? That would go in my collection of trash comics. I remember hearing about that a while ago. Ha!

Next question, I have a 6 and 8 year old, any native themed comics you could recommend for them? Other than Prez?

[ronniejames]

Just thought of another good one: The Amazon by Steve Seagle and Tim Sale. Very much a formative book for both esteemed gentlemen, but very good as well.

I read this a long time ago and loved it. Gonna have to dig it out again.