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January 13, 2018


FFF Results Post #492—Anticipated For 2018

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Specific Comics Or Comics-Related Books You're Looking Forward To Reading In 2018." This is how they responded.

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Trevor Ashfield

1. The New World: Comics from Mauretania, Chris Reynolds (New York Review Comics)
2. Why Art?, Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics Books)
3. Coyote Doggirl, Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
4. Dirty Plotte: Complete Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)
5. Somnabulance, Fiona Smyth (Koyama)

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Rob McMonigal

1. Ales Kot on James Bond (what the hell?)
2. Whit Taylor Ghost Stories
3. Tillie Walden On a Sunbeam
4. More issues of Now, Fanta's new Anthology
5. A Western World by Mike DeForge

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Garlandia, Lorenzo Mattotti And Jerry Kramsky (Fantagraphics) (pictured)
2. Slum Wolf, Tadao Tsuge With Ryan Holmberg (New York Review Comics)
3. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
4. Shit Is Real, Aisha Franz (Drawn And Quarterly)
5. Somnabulance, Fiona Smyth (Koyama Press)

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Marc-Oliver Frisch

1. Poochytown, Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
2. On a Sunbeam, Tillie Walden (First Second)
3. A Western World, Michael DeForge (Koyama)
4. Endzeit, Olivia Vieweg (Carlsen)
5. Soft X-Ray Mindhunters, A. Degen (Koyama)

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Oliver Ristau

1. Multiple Warheads: Ghost Throne, Brandon Graham (Image)
2. Prism Stalker, Sloane Leong (Image)
3. Frankenstein Alive, Alive #4, Steve Niles/Bernie Wrightson/Kelley Jones (IDW)
4. Deathstroke Annual #1, Christopher Priest/Bill Sienkiewicz/Denys Cowan (DC)
5. Soft X-Ray Mindhunters, Alex Degen (Koyama)

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John Vest

1. Mineshaft 35, Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri (Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri)
2. Robert Crumb Sketchbook Volume Three: 1975–1982, R. Crumb (Taschen)
3. Kramers Ergot 10, Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
4. Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 24, Chester Gould (IDW)
5. Love That Bunch, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Drawn and Quarterly)

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Dan Nordskog

1. Land of the Sons, Gipi (Fantagraphics)
2. Idle Days, Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau/Simon Leclerc (First Second)
3. Blackbird Days, Manuele Fior, Jaime Richardson (Fantagraphics)
4. Yellow Negros And Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbe (New York Review Comics)
5. Be Prepared, Vera Brosgol (First Second)

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Michael Grabowski

1. Clay Jones' editorial cartoons & commentary (Claytoonz.com)
2. You Don't Know Jack, Dave Sim, Carson Grubagh, Jack Van Dyke (IDW or Aardvark-Vanaheim)
3. Fritz After Dark, Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
4. Gabrielle Bell's Patreon comics
5. The Goat-Getters, Eddie Campbell (IDW)

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Terry Eisele

1. The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head, David Gaffney, Dan Berry (Top Shelf Productions)
2. Four Sisters Volume One Enid, Cati Baur, Malika Ferdjoukh (IDW)
3. Young Frances, Hartley Lin (AdHouse)
4. Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, Box Brown (First Second)
5. My Favorite Thing is Monsters 2, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

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Michael Dooley

1. The Provocative Colette, Annie Goetzinger (NBM Publishing)
2. Eternity Girl, Sonny Liew with writer Magdalene Visaggio (Young Animal/DC Comics)
3. SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny, Paul Tumey (Library of American Comics)
4. Drawing And Life Lessons From Master Cartoonists, Craig Yoe (Yoe Books)
5. The Graphic Canon Of Crime & Mystery Volume Two, Russ Kick (Seven Stories Press)

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Sean Rogers

1. Mort Cinder, Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia (Fantagraphics)
2. Von Spatz, Anna Haifisch (Drawn & Quarterly)
3. Claudine, Ryoko Ikeda (Seven Seas)
4. From Lone Mountain, John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly)
5. Poochytown, Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)

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Mário Filipe

1. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Four: The Tempest, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf and Knockabout)
2. Blueberry, Joan Sfar and Christophe Blain (Dargaud)
3. Poochytown, Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
4. Art Comic, Matthew Thurber (Drawn & Quarterly)
5. Pinheiro-Bravo [working title], Tiago Baptista (Chili Com Carne)

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thanks to all that participated

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