Go, Read: Slate’s Ten Best Comics Of 2015

Here. They are:

* Incidents in the Night Book 2, David B (Uncivilized Books)
* Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomine (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Not Funny Ha-Ha, Leah Hayes (Fantagraphics)
* Pope Hats #4, Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
* Sacred Heart, Liz Suburbia (Fantagraphics)
* Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)
* SuperMutant Magic Academy, Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
* The Oven, Sophie Goldstein (AdHouse Books)
* Thunder and Lightning, Lauren Redniss (Random House)
* Wuvable Oaf, Ed Luce (Fantagraphics)

I think that's a good list, save for the Redniss work drawing exclusively from the the alt-arts tradition. I think that's comics' strongest area, so I'm never weirded out as much by a list like this as I am by one that excludes that tradition or drastically minimizes it. I'm happy to see the Rilly and the Luce in there, those are both really interesting works in different ways. And David B. draws like no one's business. The Hayes books is interesting, too, because it's educational/informative rather than personally evocative, and that's a kind of book that rarely makes it onto lists like this one.
 
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