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May 27, 2017
FFF Results Post #477—Summertime
On Friday,
CR
readers were asked to "Recommend Five Comics To Read This Summer. Every Comic Has To Be From This Year, Published Or Unpublished." This is how they responded.
*****
Oliver Ristau
1.
Sous les Bombes Sans la Guerre, L. L. de Mars (Editions Tanibis)
2.
Mirror Mirror II, Julia Gfrörer/Sean T. Collins (2dcloud)
3.
2001, Blaise Larmee (2dcloud)
4.
There's Nothing There, Patrick Kindlon/Maria Llovet (Black Mask Studios)
5.
Groenland Vertigo, Hervé Tanquerelle/Isabelle Merlet (Casterman)
*****
Dave Knott
*
Crickets
#6 -- Sammy Harkham
*
Pope Hats
#5 -- Ethan Rilly
*
Slasher
#1 -- Charles Forsman
*
Ganges
#6 -- Kevin Huizenga
*
Titan
#5 -- François Vigneault
*****
Tom Spurgeon
1.
Uncomfortably Happily
, Yeon-sik Hong (D+Q)
2.
On The Camino
, Jason (Fantagraphics)
3.
Fante Bukowski Two
, Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics)
4.
You & a Bike & a Road
, Eleanor Davis (Koyama)
5.
Crawl Space
, Jesse Jacobs (Koyama)
*****
Michael Dooley
1.
Last Girl Standing
, Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
2.
Monograph by Chris Ware, Chris Ware (Rizzoli)
3.
Masters of Spanish Comic Book Art
, David Roach (Dynamite Entertainment)
4.
Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines
, Craig Yoe and Ger Apeldoorn (IDW)
5.
Dirty Duck
, Bobby London (IDW)
*****
Stergios Botzakis
1.
Volcano Trash
, Ben Sears (Koyama)
2.
Tarantula
, Alexis Ziritt & Fabian Rangel Jr. & Evelyn Range (Adhouse)
3.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
4.
California Dreamin'
, Pénélope Bagieu (First Second)
5.
Rock Candy Mountain
, Kyle Starks (Image)
*****
Mario Filipe
1.
Le collectionneur de briques
, Pedro Burgos (6 pieds sous terre) [F]
2.
Nagual
, Diniz Conefrey (Quarto de Jade) [P]
3.
Deserto/Nuvem
, Francisco Sousa Lobo (Chili Com Carne) [P]
4.
They Live in Me
, Jesse Jacobs (Hollow Press) [E]
5.
Mirror Mirror II
, edited by Julia Gfrörer & Sean T. Collins (2dcloud) [E]
*****
*****
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