There's a good post about this on Shelf Talk, the library blog. David B's Epileptic is amazing, and definitely worth your time if you haven't gotten around to it yet.

Man, are these "Stranger Suggests" posts hard to read! Serif font, lines squished together. I usually don't bother reading them because it hurts my brain.

Just sayin'.

I got into the French language earlier this year by obtaining Persepolis in English and French. It's a great method for learning.

I have found that downloading pornographic picto-fiction in a foreign language can be one of the most entertaining and enlightening methods of instruction. One learns the dirty words. One develops a mastery of the imperative (pinch it! pull it!), the interrogative (how do you like that, bitch?), demonstrative pronouns (that's it! there it is! those are huge! this is hot!) etc.

I never read French comic books.

I only read bandes desinees, because everyone knows comics are for the cretins.