Would love to read something about a world like Blade Runner or alternative future stuff like Tales from the Loop with a strong narrative.
Whenever I google for ideas I come across manga style teenage shite with questionable pictures of woman. No interest in that stuff at all.
Go.
equinox_code "I need girls cornered and on their own"
There's not much off the top of my head that fits into what you're after, but maybe look at LOW and Descender for good modern scifi stuff from Image at the minute. Y the Last Man is supposed to be good speculative fiction too. There's also a collection of Moore's Future Shocks for 2000AD for a bunch of fun SciFi shorts, and The Ballad of Halo Jones is good Moore scifi. His best is Probably From Hell though.
Japan is cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk mad, from Akira to Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, via Nihei BLAME! and BIOMEGA, but there approach has always been far different to the west's.
Otherwise can't help ya, maybe check through the comic thred for recs
No, GN is a term that purports to exclusively exist for longform pieces of sequential art that are not assembled from collected issues, but this is lazily bandied about to include things like Sandman etc.
Will Eisner allegedly coined the term to secure a meeting with a publisher for his compilation of tenement stories (later know as A Contract With God) but i believe he is still insistent that was just a way of getting a foot in the door and he still considers it a comic.
There is much consternation from writers and arts is over the term. For me a comic is a comic, be it a single frame or a million. Graphic novel seems to exist as a casual marketing term to refer to weightier collected editions like Watchmen, and larger works like Habibi, Persepolis or From Hell. I dislike the way it apportions legitimacy, as do many of those involved in the creation of comics.
It took me a long while to realise trades were short for 'trade paperbacks' and not in fact about how nerds preferred to distribute material among themselves a la Pokemon cards or summat.