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March 17, 2018


FFF Results Post #500 Plus Bonus Results Posts

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Individual Comics Publications That You Love." This is how they responded.

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Douglas Wolk

1. Tantalizing Stories Presents Frank in the River By Jim Woodring
2. Mister O By Lewis Trondheim
3. Never Forgets By Yumi Sakugawa
4. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume Four: I Kissed a Squirrel and I Liked It By Ryan North and Erica Henderson
5. You've Got to Be Kidding, Snoopy! By Charles M. Schulz

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Sick, Sick, Sick By Jules Feiffer
2. Hicksville By Dylan Horrocks
3. The Death Of Speedy By Jaime Hernandez
4. As The Kid Goes For Broke By Garry Trudeau
5. A Child's Life And Other Stories By Phoebe Gloeckner

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Mário Filipe

1. Watchmen By Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins
2. Poison River By Gilbert Hernandez
3. Eightball #22 (Ice Haven) By Daniel Clowes
4. Perramus By Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain
5. C'était la guerre des tranchées By Jacques Tardi

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Stephen Harrick

1. Boswash by Nick Bertozzi
2. Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person by Miriam Engelberg
3. Mercury by Hope Larson
4. 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago
5. Ironclad by Dan Zettwoch

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Marc Arsenault

1. Jimbo in Paradise by Gary Panter
2. Adventure Comics #360 - "The Legion Chain Gang!" by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan
3. Uncle Pogo's So-So Stories by Walt Kelly
4. The Doonesbury Chronicles by Garry Trudeau
5. Cave In by Brian Ralph

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Oliver Ristau

1. Trese: Mass Murders by Kajo Baldisimo and Budjette Tan
2. Red Red Rock by Hayashi Seiichi
3. Shelter by Chantal Montellier (the 1980 version)
4. ! by Tymothi Godek
5. Murder by Remote Control by Paul Kirchner and Janwillem van de Wetering

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Matthew Guest

1. King of Dental Floss By Kamagurka & Herr Seele
2. Jack Kirby’s Heroes and Villains By Jack Kirby
3. Vastly Overrated Al Jaffee By Al Jaffee
4. Cul de Sac Golden Treasury By Richard Thompson
5. The Thing in The Project Pegasus Saga By Gruenwald, Macchio, Byrne, Perez

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Kiel Phegley

1. New Thing 1: Identity by Jim Higgins, et al
2. Paper Museum 1 by Jai Nitz, et al
3. Starman Omnibus 1 by James Robinson & Tony Harris
4. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo
5. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth

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Jeffrey A. Goodman

1. Ed The Happy Clown by Chester Brown
2. Mad #22 by Kurtzman and Elder
3. Cannon by Wallace Wood
4. Trots And Bonnie by Shary Flenniken (sadly only collected in French edition)
5. Ray And Joe: The Story Of A Man And His Dead Friend And Other Classic Comics by Charles Rodrigues

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Michael Dooley

1. Executive's Comic Book, by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
2. Redrawn by Request, by J.R. Williams
3. Guindon, by Richard Guindon
4. Yesterday's Tomorrows, by Rian Hughes
5. The Collective Unconscience of Odd Bodkins, by Dan O'Neill

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John Vest

1. R. Crumb's Head Comix By R. Crumb
2. Tits, Ass & Real Estate By Eve Gilbert
3. Hollywoodland By Kim Deitch
4. Heartbreak Comics By David Boswell
5. The Orgies Of Abitibi By Sylvie Rancourt & Jacques Boivin

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Michael Neno

1. Rocketo Volume One: The Journey To The Hidden Sea, By Frank Espinosa
2. Naruto Vol. 3 By Masashi Kishimoto
3. The Steppenwolf Chronicles By Byron Black
4. Captain America and the Falcon: Madbomb By Jack Kirby
5. Apama: The Undiscovered Animal By Ted Sikora, Milo Miller and Benito Gallego

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Andrew Mansell

1. The Kat Who Walked in Beauty: The Panoramic Dailies of 1920 By George Herriman
2. Forgotten Fantasy By Pete Maresca (ed.)
3. God And Science: Return Of The Ti-Girls By Jaime Hernandez
4. Mel's Story By Garry Trudeau
5. King Aroo Vol. 2 By Jack Kent

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Lou Copeland

1. From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
2. The Fantastic Four Artist's Edition by Jack Kirby
3. Forgotten Fantasy edited by Peter Maresca
4. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carre
5. The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar

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Evan Dorkin

1. The Complete MAD EC Library (color), Harvey Kurtzman, WIll Elder, Wally Wood, et al
2. Marvel Treasury Edition #11 -- The Fabulous Fantastic Four, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and others
3. World's Finest #113 (for main story), by Jerry Coleman, Dick Sprang and Sheldon Moldoff
4. Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks
5. Walt and Skeezix vol 1, Frank King

The part of my heart that hasn't changed from childhood is buried in some of these picks, for sure. OMG do I love comics.

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thanks to all that participated in any of the 500; bonus lists will roll out weekly as Jordan and I discuss the future of various features at the site... see you in May!

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