Amazon.com Picks Its Top Comics Of The Year; Roz Chast Secures The Best Of Year Slot



Mega-retailer Amazon has picked its top 20 graphic novels for 2014, and named Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast as its graphic novel of the year.

Their top 20 list, selected by editors at the giant retailer, in alphabetical order by title. You can go here to see the same list presented in descending order of sales.

* Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Box Brown (First Second)
* Ant Colony, Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Batman: A Visual History, Matthew K. Manning (foreword by Frank Miller) (DK Publishing)
* Beautiful Darkness, Fabian Vehlmann and Kerascoet, translated by Helge Dascher (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)

* Deadpool by Joe Kelly Omnibus, Joe Kelly and James Felder and Stan Lee and Ed McGuinness and Aaron Lopresti and Bernard Chang and Shannon Denton and Pete Woods and Rob Liefeld (Marvel)
* How To Be Happy, Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
* Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
* Saga Deluxe Edition Volume One, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
* Seconds: A Graphic Novel, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Ballantine)

* Sugar Skull, Charles Burns (Pantheon)
* The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume Two HC, Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins)
* The Harlem Hellfighters, Max Brooks (Broadway Books)
* The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
* The Shadow Hero, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew (First Second)

* The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances, The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman (Andrews McMeel)
* The Wrenchies, Farel Dalrymple (First Second)
* This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (First Second)
* Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
* Trillium, Jeff Lemire, (Vertigo/DC)

I always like this list because it's very, very different than my own. I suppose there's a chance that this recognition leads directly to sales through Amazon, although I've never heard of any huge success stories. It looks like the Chast may be on its way to becoming a near-consensus book of the year.

I haven't double-checked all of the end-of-year lists there, but I know that the Chast is in the 70s on the overall books list so I imagine some crossover. Mo Willems, Jon J Muth and Jules Feiffer have works on one of the kids lists. I'm sure I'm missing some and will update as I gain a bit more clarity.
 
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