AV Club Picks Its Best Comics Of 2015



Here. What might be most interesting in this age of split lists and joke lists and lists by critics is that this is a good ol' all-in-one list from the popular site.

* Bacchus Vol. 1, Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf)
* Bright-Eyed At Midnight, Leslie Stein (Fantagraphics)
* Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt (IDW) (pictured left)
* Deep Dark Fears, Fran Krause (Ten Speed)
* Displacement, Lucy Knisley (Fantagraphics)
* Dressing, Michael DeForge (Koyama)
* Fante Bukowski, Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics) (top)
* House Of Hem, Fred Hembeck (Marvel)
* The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ And Amal, E.K. Weaver (Iron Spike)
* Lighten Up, Ronald Wimberly (Web)
* March: Book Two, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
* The Nib's Eat More Comics, various (self-published)
* Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson (Harper)
* One-Punch Man, ONE and Yusuke Murata (Viz)
* Poetry Is Useless, Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly) (bottom)
* Private Eye: Deluxe Edition, Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente (Image)
* Russian Olive To Red King, Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen (AdHouse)
* The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition, Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, and Dave Stewart (Vertigo)
* Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Sunny, Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz)
* Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
* The Divine, Boaz Lavie, Asaf Hanuka, and Tomer Hanuka (First Second)
* Trash Market, Tadao Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Two Brothers, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse)
* Virgil, Steve Orlando, J.D. Faith, and Chris Beckett (Image)

A few things stand out. One is that there are a bunch of books on this list I've seen on few others, a sign of the critical spread and lack of consensus that exists these days. This list honors Ron Wimberley's fine on-line essay "Lighten Up" as its own comic, which is smart. It's also nice to see the Leslie Stein whenever that appears on someone's list.


 
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