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December 17, 2008


RC Baker’s Top Comics of 2008 List

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RC Baker has an article up with Village Voice detailing picks for the best of the calendar year 2008. It includes comics, art books and comics-related publications. Picks include:

* A People's History Of American Empire, Mike Konopacki and Howard Zinn (Metropolitan)
* Bat-Manga!, Chip Kidd (Pantheon)
* Berlin: City of Smoke, Jason Lutes (D&Q)
* Capacity, Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres)
* Dope Menace, Stephen J. Gertz (Feral House)
* Garfied Minus Garfield, Jim Davis and Dan Walsh, (Ballantine)
* Get Your War On, David Rees (Soft Skull)
* Heavy Liquid, Paul Pope (Vertigo)
* Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric, Barry Feinstein and Bob Dylan (Simon and Schuster)
* I Live Here, Various (Pantheon)
* Kirby: King of Comics, Mark Evanier (Abrams)
* Most Outrageous, Bob Levin (Fantagraphics)
* Nat Turner, Kyle Baker (Abrams)
* Watching the Watchmen, Dave Gibbons (Titan)
* Where Demented Wented, Rory Hayes (Fantagraphics)
 
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