Your Amazon.com 2016 Top 20 Comics & Graphic Novels

The on-line retailer Amazon.com has released its list of 20 best books for its comics & graphic novels category. The list is -- as I think has come to be expected now -- wide-ranging and leaning towards commercial comics perhaps more than a list generated by, say, this site might be. The books are also pretty evenly distributed by publisher.

Two books from this list also made the 100 overall books list: the March volume and Monstress. Several books by cartoonists and/or in comics form alternatively made a kids list, including Kate Beaton's King Baby from Scholastic.

* Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel)
* Clean Room Volume One: Immaculate Conception, Gail Simone and Jon-Davis Hunt (Vertigo)
* Dark Night: A True Batman Story, Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso (Vertigo)
* Faith Volume One: Hollywood and Vine, Jody Houser and Francis Portela (Valiant)
* Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
* How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide, Ron Padgett and Jason Novak (Coffee House Press)
* Hot Dog Taste Test, Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn and Quarterly)
* March: Book Three, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
* Moebius Library: The World of Edena, Moebius (Dark Horse)
* Monstress Volume One: Awakening, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
* Neil Gaiman’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman and Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse)
* Paper Girls Vol. 1, Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
* Patience, Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics)
* Princess Jellyfish 1, Akiko Higashimura (Kodansha)
* Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, Sarah Glidden (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, Tom Hart (St. Martin's)
* The Birth of Kitaro, Shigeru Mizuki and Zack Davisson (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Vision Volume One: Little Worse Than A Man, Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)

I would imagine that the lists are designed to drive traffic to the books named as Christmas gifts, so other than the Mizuki and the Moebius I'm sad the rich vein of specialty books and collection isn't tapped. I bet that Sunday Press Books treatment of Dick Tracy is astounding-looking. Then again, It's just a list, among many others at the end of the year.


 
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