Comics 2008

Another entry I blogged on at the end of 2007 was the comics I enjoyed during the year. Well, these are taken from pages of comics I enjoyed in 2008... They are, from top left, "fun house" by alison bechdel, "shortcomings" by adrian tomie, alan moore's classic "v for vendetta", darwyn cooke's "the new frontier", tatsumi's "goodbye", alan moore's "the league of extraordinary gentlemen, vols 1 & 2", stories from "creepy" archives, vol. 1, "american born chinese" by gene yang and "iron man" by adi granov. Their art is extraordinary. The last 2 are almost polar opposites; Gene Yang's highly stylised panels versus Adi's naturalistic, painterly art. Judging which was the best would be silly, but for sheer gleeful pleasure; it's the compilation from "creepy".

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postscript: Borders was having 45% discount yesterday (26 Dec) and I went and bought 2 more comics; Darwyn Cooke's revived "The Spirit", Book 1, and Moore/Bolland's "Batman: Killing Joke". Terrific stuff.