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Post by arecomicsevengood on Nov 15, 2023 13:19:47 GMT
It's getting to year-end listmaking time - a list from Powell's I saw yesterday of fifteen books included seven I'd never heard of, a Washington Post list that came out today had three books that were on the Powell's list I was able to see before I got hit with a paywall. What were your favorite books/zines/series/etc of the year, the stuff you think should be remembered came out before anyone makes a year end list?
Monica by Dan Clowes is obviously the frontrunner for original graphic novels, though Sammy Harkham's Blood Of The Virgin is top of the line for previously serialized work. I would shout out Kyoko Okazaki's River's Edge, Minami's Lover (by an artist whose name I forget), Tiger Tateishi's Cheat Sheets, and Yoshikazu Ebisu's I Wish I Was Stupid for single-volume manga reprints, although I am of course lost as to longer manga serials that came out this year, besides the Kazuo Umezz Cat-Eyed Boy hardcovers. Liam Cobb's What Awaits Them is a cool book.
Self-published series that published an issue or two this year: Fielder 2 from Kevin Huizenga, Evan Salazar's Rodeo 3, Carlos Gonzalez' Everglide 5, Max Huffman's Hypermutt 5-7, Alex Graham's Devil's Grin 3&4, Molly O'Connell's Pebbles 1&2, Nathan Cowdry's War Epic 1&2, Daria Tessler's Cagelessness 2, Mike Centeno's Futile 9. Noel Freibert reprinted issue 6 of CF's Lowtide. I'm waiting on the book collection of Olivier Schrauwen's Sunday but seemingly no one else who posts on here is, the last chunk of that came out recently.
Fave short stories - The Plunge by Nick Mandaag, Allee Errico's story about Herpes in Cram 2.
Anyway I am just trying to get the ball rolling and not name all my favorite stuff. What did you like this year?
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Post by eheitner on Nov 15, 2023 14:43:08 GMT
Lol I'm looking back at my posts on the "What Are You Reading" thread and realizing pretty much nothing I've read has come out this year. My copies of Fielder and Buildings Are Barking are in the mail tho!
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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 15, 2023 14:46:49 GMT
I think we had a great year. I had to look up that powell's list because I was curious. So interesting how many books on here never crossed my radar. Anyways let me shout out some stuff real quick: Orochi by Umezz, Low Tide #6 (reissue) by CF (and all the minis he's made), Minami’s Lover by Shungiku Uchida, Nathan Cowdry’s War Epic, Donkey by Joe Kessler, The Complete Jontar by Bill Miller, Three Rocks by Bill Griffith, Quel Qu’un/Blah Blah Blah #4 by Juliette Collet, My Picture Diary by Fujiwara Maki, Nejishiki by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Mimi's Tales of Terror by Junji Ito, Telemarketing Guys by Abraham Diaz, Wonder House of Horrors by Miyako Cojima, Poison Pill anthology, Upstate #3 by Stephen Pellnat, Cagelessness Volume 2 by Daria Tessler, Sunday 5,6,7 by Olivier Schrauwen... probably more. |
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Post by awfulquiet on Nov 15, 2023 16:28:48 GMT
off the top of my head in no particular order (I will refine for my eventual official Bubbles list):
Enlightened Trans-sexual Comix Poison Pill Maple Terrace Three Rocks P*nk Lab Girl Part 1 Stories From Zoo PeePee PooPoo #80085 Rodeo 3
Perry Shitlife Blood of the Virgin hardcover All of Pat Rooks' Pisstopia stuff from this year Audra's collected Tunnel Vision from Rust Belt Review non-comics honorable mention, Issue 1 of Brian's new zine Small World
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Post by dominocorp on Nov 15, 2023 16:37:12 GMT
Neoglyphic Landscape by Morgan Vogel (reprint of a previously published work, but first time in bookform)
W The Whore by Feuchtnberger and De Vries
Flow Form Speciman by Westvind
Unended by Josh Bayer (this might be my favorite book of the year)
Sundays 5, 6, 7 by Schrauwen. In some ways this work might not be my taste exactly but it's someone working at such a high level, it doesn't really matter if it's 'your kinda thing'
Monica by Clowes
Nejinski by Tsuge
Wish I Was Stupid by Ebisu
Blah Blah Blah 4 by Collet
Psychodrama Illustrated #6 by Hernandez
Fielder 2 by Huizenga
still need to read a ton of stuff (tales from the park, proof that the devil loves you...). Wish Allee Errico's book from Cram was out, I've seen bits of it and that'd be high on my list if it had been on schedule to be out by end of December.
I didn't edit all of it, but I was pretty involved so I can't nominate it but I'm very proud of Jaywalk 4, getting sent out later this month...
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Post by manoopuesta on Nov 15, 2023 20:35:25 GMT
so far, these are my fav reads of this year:
Noah Van Sciver – Maple Terrace 1 and 2
Yan Cong – HARRY TOTTER pt.2
Anke Feuchtenberger – W the Whore
María Medem – Por Culpa de una Flor
Yan Cong and Zuo Ma – Narrative Addiction #12
Paul B. Rainey – Why Don’t You Love Me?
Marcello Quintanilha - Listen Beautiful Marcia
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Post by mikesheawright on Nov 15, 2023 21:17:45 GMT
Sunday - nothing came anywhere near this in 2023 for me. number 1 by an enormous margin. River Rangers - haven't seen many people talking about this but i think it's tremendous. just beautiful cartooning, funny, weird, charming, it's got it all. hhbm.bigcartel.com/Tsuge Nejishiki - i thought these stories were cool but the essay is really where the meat is in this book for me. also Everglide, Cram 2, Stories from Zoo, Moonray, Unended, i'm sure i'm forgetting some. |
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Post by robindh on Nov 15, 2023 21:41:18 GMT
I'm realising I didn't read much of anything released this year, mostly 2022 catch up and older books. With that said I'd like to shout out Patrick Kyle's Baby, it's one of his best but has unfortunately flown under the radar a little bit. Him and Schrauwen are the funniest cartoonists working today IMO, it's insane that he can just make this stuff off the dome.
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Post by alaird on Nov 16, 2023 3:39:35 GMT
i keep looking for baby, and can't find it anywhere! breakdown are great, but they dont have as much reach in north america it seems.
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Post by pentimento on Nov 16, 2023 3:40:55 GMT
so far, these are my fav reads of this year: Paul B. Rainey – Why Don’t You Love Me? Absolutely devastating masterpiece, just an extraordinary book |
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Post by nate on Nov 16, 2023 4:17:11 GMT
Where are people finding the Ebisu? It’s sold out at my usual places.
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Post by manoopuesta on Nov 16, 2023 10:12:19 GMT
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Post by argethebarge on Nov 16, 2023 17:17:25 GMT
my shorlist for now
-Rivers Edge, Kyoko Okazaki
-The Gull Yettin, Joe Kessler
-The Necrophilic Landscape, Morgan Vogel
-I Wish I was Stupid, Yoshikazu Ebisu
-Nejishiki, Yoshiharu Tsuge
-Minami's Lover, Shungicu Uchida
-W the Whore, Anke Fuechtenburger & Katrin de Vries
-Baby, Patrick Kyle
-Monica, Daniel Clowes
-Cat Eyed Boy, Kazuo Umezz
Currently have a few things on my reading list that i have high hopes for. Havent read the newest Sunday (have my copy), Josh Beyer, or Liam Cobb among other things and will probably spend more time than necessary thinking about this for the next month
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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 16, 2023 19:23:31 GMT
As usual I'll be collecting lists for Bubbles in January 2024 and publishing them in March-ish when nobody cares at the moment anymore, but it'll age well for years down the road lol
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Post by crapmasterzac on Nov 16, 2023 19:32:15 GMT
As usual I'll be collecting lists for Bubbles in January 2024 and publishing them in March-ish when nobody cares at the moment anymore, but it'll age well for years down the road lol I was thinking about the list I submitted last year and how much my tastes changed and how cringe I think it is now lol |
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