In Comics
PW Comics Week just put out their third annual critics’ poll, which they were nice enough to ask me to take part in. While you can never quite definitively say what are the best graphic novels in any given year, this is a nicely weighted listing of titles that are pretty much all guaranteed to be worth your precious time and money.
The winner, not surprisingly, is Dash Shaw’s Bottomless Belly Button, a phantasmagorical piece of work that had critics around the country gobsmacked with admiration. Other notable mentions include the creepy-as-hell Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa and Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here.
Chris Barsanti 