PW Releases First Major List Of Best Comics Of 2011



Publishers Weekly has released its list of top comics of 2011 in annoying, hit-friendly, slideshow form. They are:

* Big Questions, Anders Nilsen (D+Q)
* Daytripper, Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon (DC/Vertigo)
* Farm 54, Galit Seliktar & Gilad Seliktar (Fanfare Ponent Mon)
* Finder: Voice, Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
* Habibi, Craig Thompson (Pantheon)
* Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton (D+Q)
* Infinite Kung Fu, Kagan McLeod (Top Shelf)
* Love & Rockets: New Stories #4, Gilbert Hernandez & Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
* The Influencing Machine, Brooke Gladstone & Josh Neufeld (WW Norton)
* Zahra's Paradise, Amir & Kahlil (First Second)

That's a list full of solid books. While this usually gets me a mean e-mail or two, I do feel compelled to say that the list will do very little to discourage a frequent accusation made against the PW lists and such lists in general: that they seem designed, at least in some small part, to spread the approbation among as many players in a category as is conceivably possible. I'm not sure that isn't a more serious discussion than the act of list-making deserves, however. Specifically, I'm glad that someone else read Farm 54 (it's not even listed correctly on the publisher's web site!) and that a veteran pair of creators like the Hernandez Brothers were considered.
 
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