One week ago I was in a local comic book store in search for something new to read. I saw "The Sculptor" in the display and thought, meh, that looks like a story about an emo depressed artist. Then I saw that the author wa Scott McCloud, and I picked it up. In Dutch, unfortunately. The store guy looked at me like I was an UFO when I asked him for an English version, and my argument that it's always better to read a story in the original language was dismissed by a "translations are pretty good nowadays!".
I therefore bought "De Beeld Houwer", with a mention from Neil Gaiman that this was "de beste graphic novel die ik in jaren heb gelezen" (