Monday, January 01, 2007
Taking Stock, II
These were my favorite non-superhero comics of 2006:
I. Graphic novels:
Jessica Abel, La Perdida, (Pantheon).
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragi-Comic, (Houghton Mifflin).
Renée French, The Ticking, (Top Shelf).
Miriam Katin, We Are On Our Own, (Drawn & Quarterly).
II. Story Collections:
Gabrielle Bell, Lucky, (Drawn & Quarterly).
Dupuy & Berberian, Get A Life, (Drawn & Quarterly).
Jaime Hernandez, Ghost of Hoppers, (Fantagraphics).
Megan Kelso, The Squirrel Mother, (Fantagraphics).
Lauren Weinstein, Girl Stories, (Henry Holt).
III. Strip Collections:
Roz Chast, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006, (Bloomsbury USA)
IV. Single Issue/Story:
Gabrielle Bell, My Affliction, a mini-comic.
Ivan Brunetti, Schizo #4, (Fantagraphics).
Gilbert Hernandez, New Tales of Old Palomar #1, (Fantagraphics).
V. Anthology:
MOME, (Fantagraphics; quarterly).
I. Graphic novels:
Jessica Abel, La Perdida, (Pantheon).
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragi-Comic, (Houghton Mifflin).
Renée French, The Ticking, (Top Shelf).
Miriam Katin, We Are On Our Own, (Drawn & Quarterly).
II. Story Collections:
Gabrielle Bell, Lucky, (Drawn & Quarterly).
Dupuy & Berberian, Get A Life, (Drawn & Quarterly).
Jaime Hernandez, Ghost of Hoppers, (Fantagraphics).
Megan Kelso, The Squirrel Mother, (Fantagraphics).
Lauren Weinstein, Girl Stories, (Henry Holt).
III. Strip Collections:
Roz Chast, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006, (Bloomsbury USA)
IV. Single Issue/Story:
Gabrielle Bell, My Affliction, a mini-comic.
Ivan Brunetti, Schizo #4, (Fantagraphics).
Gilbert Hernandez, New Tales of Old Palomar #1, (Fantagraphics).
V. Anthology:
MOME, (Fantagraphics; quarterly).
