Go, Read: Whit Taylor’s Favorite 20 Graphic Novels For 2014



Whit Taylor, a cartoonist and frequent writer about comics, has posted a list of favorite comics this year at her site. She emphasizes the favorites part of this kind of exercise, in a way familiar to anyone who reads a lot of writers-about-comics at the end of a calendar year. I always think these lists are more interesting when writers just go ahead and seize on the opportunity to put together an outright best list, but that's just me. I realize the conversation has moved past that specific element of things.

And I shouldn't be grumpy here! This is a fun list, well-selected, with plenty to argue and discuss. Sorry, Whit! It is:

1) Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With The Universe, Yumi Sakugawa (Adams Media)
2) Distance Mover, Patrick Kyle (Koyama Press)
3) Ant Colony, Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
4) Megahex, Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)
5) Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
6) White Cube, Brecht Vandenbroucke (Drawn & Quarterly)
7) Get Over It!, Corinne Mucha (Secret Acres)
8) The Amateurs, Conor Stechshulte (Fantagraphics)
9) Unlovable Vol. 3, Esther Pearl Watson (Fantagraphics)
10) The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
11) Petty Theft, Pascal Girard (Drawn & Quarterly)
12) Everywhere Antennas, Julie Delporte (Drawn & Quarterly)
13) Safari Honeymoon, Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
14) Facility Integrity, Nick Maandag (Pigeon Press)
15) How To Be Happy, Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
16) Shattered With Curve Of Horn, Max Miller Dowdle (self-published)
17) Basewood, Alec Longstreth (self-published)
18) The Hospital Suite, John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly)
19) Tomboy, Liz Prince (Zest Books)
20) Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories, MariNaomi (2D Cloud)

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