How Can a Comic Released in 1966 Be One of the Best Comics Out in 2006?

I received a couple of e-mails about yesterday's Top 50 comics list from folks that didn't share my enthusiasm for putting reprint volumes on a list of best works designated by year. Sorry to disappoint. I personally think one of the great things about comics is its approach to reprint works, and how they're re-contextualized as modern books in a way no other art form approaches. A Jules Feiffer reprint is a great book in 2006; the stories it collects were great stories -- or not -- in the years they came out. And so on. I think deep down I trust my ability to pinpoint which works feel like new editions and which works feel like new releases more than my ability to discern what's new and what's been reprinted from a different language or from a serial. Also, if I were to change now, my new lists wouldn't match up with my old lists.

But, if you're still mad at me, just print out yesterday's list, draw a big X through each the 18 reprint-related volumes and write in the following works on the bottom of the page: Babel #2, Baobab (series), They Found The Car, Casanova (Series), Love and Rockets (series), We Are On Our Own, Klassic Komix Club (on-line), Lost Girls, MOME, La Perdida, Making Comics, Mutts (strip), the editorial cartoons of Jim Morin, The Lost Colony (series), Castle Waiting (series), Delphine, Tales Designed to Thrizzle #3, and Nextwave: Agents of Hate (series). That should do it.

2006 was a wonderful year.
 
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