What People Thought Were the Best Comics in 2020

Robert Boyd

Everyone has been producing their lists of the best of the year. I'm not going to try to build a meta-list this year (like I did last year for the best comics of the decade). But I do want to mention two lists that I respect: "SOLRAD’s The Best* Comics of 2020" and the Comics Journal's "The Best Comics Of 2020." I find it alarming how few of these books and comics that I know. It's startling confirmation of how old I am (and a less-painful confirmation than my morning back pains). 

In both lists, the editors have asked their regular writers to give them their best of 2020. So instead of one list, SOLRAD had 16 contributors make lists, and the Comics Journal had 15. SOLRAD asked contributors for their top 5 and the Comics Journal didn't seem to specify how many they wanted from each contributor, so the number varied. And at least one contributor, Francesca Lyn for SOLRAD, took "best of 2020" to mean the best comics she read, regardless of when they were created. I appreciate this because for me, any book that I read for the first time is new to me, even if I read it years after it was created.

I can't comment on comic I didn't read, except to say that these list make me want to go back and search out many books I missed. Below are the books on these lists that I did read.

Yoshiharu Tsuge, The Man Without Talent. (This one was chosen by Michael Aushenker, Robert Clough, Alex Hoffman and Nicholas Burman for SOLRAD and Austin Price and Matt Seneca for the Comics Journal.) I wrote about this book when it came out. A book that moved me in its depiction of depression.

O. Schrauwen and Ruppert & Mulot, Portrait of a Drunk. (Chosen by Jef Harmatz for SOLRAD and Helen Chazan, Joe McCulloch, Brian Nicholson and Matt Seneca for the Comics Journal) This grim story of a terrible alcoholic sailor named Guy set in the 17th or 18th century was a portrait of unrelieved misery, kind of an Under the Volcano in comics form. I like both Schrauwen and the team of Ruppert and Mulot, and they blended their work seamlessly here. A great book.

Werewolf Jones is frequently erect in Crisis Zone

Simon Hanselmann, Crisis Zone. (Chosen by Rob Clough and Alex Hoffman for SOLRAD and Clark Burscough and RJ Casey for the Comics Journal). This demented strip was drawn and posted on Instagram daily by Hanselmann. It was a COVID project. His usual characters star in it--it involves Megg, Mogg and Owl in a series of COVID-isolation adventures, and includes BLM riots and a Netflix reality show starring Werewolf Jones called "Anus King." Whatever extreme limits you can imagine, this comic shattered them. Johnny Ryan may have seemed like the taboo-breaking heir of the undergrounds, but I give that crown to Simon Hanselmann. 

Gabrielle Bell, Inappropriate (Chosen by Francesca Lyn for SOLRAD ). I love Gabrielle Bell's work, and I loved Inappropriate, but it doesn't come close to being my favorite of her works. Any Bell is worth reading, though. Inappropriate consists of short, somewhat surreal stories, which feel similar to where she started early in her cartooning career.

Derf Backderf, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Chosen by my old friend Charles Hatfield for SOLRAD and Rob Kirby for the Comics Journal). Backderf had the bad luck to publish a major work of non-fiction comics in the middle of the pandemic. I did one of my first book reports on it.

Adrian Tomine, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Chosen by James Romberger for SOLRAD and Hillary Brown and Rob Kirby for the Comics Journal) I've followed and written about Adrian Tomine since he was a teenager doing minicomics. This book is unique among all the comics here because I'm actually mentioned in the text. Tomine mentions an early review I did, I think for the Comics Journal. It's an autobiographical comic and in common with many of my favorites this year, the protagonist is thoroughly unlikable (a bold move for autobiography!). Tomine is really good when he allows himself to be funny, and this book is very funny.

John Pham, J&K  (Chosen by Nicholas Burman for SOLRAD and Matt Seneca for the Comics Journal). I read this book this year and loved it. It depicts the somewhat surreal adventures of friends J & K and comes with oddball extra goodies--trading cards, a mini-magazine, and weirdest of all, a 5-inch 45 rpm record. It was published in 2019, but I didn't read it until January of this year.

panel from "Giving Thanks in 2020" by Eleanor Davis
 

“Giving Thanks in 2020”, Eleanor Davis (Chosen by Hillary Brown for the Comics Journal). This strip was published online by The New York Times on Thanksgiving. Brown wrote, "It’s not really fair to keep asking Eleanor Davis to turn herself inside out for our pleasure..." I'm not qualified to call Eleanor David the greatest living American cartoonist, but she's my personal favorite at the moment.

 panel by Emily Flake from the Nib

The Nib. (Chosen by Hillary Brown for the Comics Journal). The Nib publishes new political comics nearly everyday, by excellent cartoonists like Matt Bors, Emily Flake, Pia Guerra, Ruben Bolling, Jen Sorensen and many others. I read it almost every day. 

 Jim Woodring, And Now, Sir?Is THIS Your Missing Gonad?  (Chosen by Helen Chazan for the Comics Journal). This is kind of a minor work by Jim Woodring, which like calling an early piano concerto by Mozart a minor work. It is filled with enigmatic "gag" cartoons that stretch the reader's brain. This reader, anyway.

Paul Ragabliati, Paul at Home  (Chosen by Rob Kirby for the Comics Journal). I did a book report on this great book in December.  Like so many of the books on this list, it features an unpleasant protagonist. And like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist, it is autobiographical. 

Yoshiharu Tsuge, The Swamp (Chosen by Matt Seneca and  Tom Shapira for the Comics Journal). This is supposed the first of several volumes of Tsuge's work to be published in English. It's some of his early work, and it many of the stories had the feel of earlier, pulpier stories. They often have obvious twists. But there is much to admire here, including the story "Chirpy." It's not as good as The Man Without Talent, though.

Kim Deitch, Reincarnation Stories (Chosen by Frank Young for the Comics Journal). I loved it, but I love everything by Kim Deitch. A minor Deitch book, but still utterly pleasurable.

Ruben Bolling, Super Fun-Pak Comix Reader (Chosen by Frank Young for the Comics Journal). I loved this collection and did a video about it in November. 

And that's it--everything that was listed on SOLRAD's and the Comics Journal's best of 2020 lists that I had read. The one omission from both lists that surprised me was Grip by Lale Westvind. This book was published in 2020 and certainly qualified. I reported on it here.

Long Live Koyama Press!

 Robert Boyd

Annie Koyama is a Canadian woman who was involved in the Toronto art scene. Without knowing all that much about this part of Koyama's life, I have to assume that Toronto, like any other big city, has a vibrant art scene. A little more detail is available in this short oral history of Koyama Press published in Quill & Quire, a trade magazine for the Canadian publishing industry. Apparently Koyama Press was initially financed when Annie Koyama made a very good investment in the stock market, and was motivated by a health scare. I imagine her thinking, life could end at any second, so I better do something I really want with it. (I guess we should all be glad that her secret ambition wasn't to try heroin.)

She decided to bring this project to a close this year. Koyama Press lasted for 13 years, and she shut it down on her own terms (which is rare in the world of small press--they usually end because they are forced to end, as I personally know).

Anyway, there aren't many publishers that I think of as having a personality. I think the publishing industry is too corporate for that these days. But small presses are the exception, particularly if they are still run by their founder. While it is sad that Koyama Press is going away, it has always been down to Annie Koyama. The entire line of books reflects the taste and vision of one person. Raise a glass to the great Annie Koyama.

This is the logo for Koyama Press: "Kickass Annie"

I want to list a few of my favorite Koyama Press books.

I haven't written extensively about Eleanor Davis. I should have written about this book. You & A Bike & A Road is a diary comic about Davis's epic bike ride from Tuscon, Arizona to Jackson, Mississippi. She intended to go all the way to her home in Athens, Georgia, but she reached her limit earlier than hoped. She drew it as she traveled which gives the book a very immediate feeling. Her father built the bike for her, and this ride had to be the adventure of a lifetime. And her telling of the story is moving--all the people she meets on the way, the things she witnesses--some quite shocking. But one question is why even do this crazy thing?

I highly recommend this You & A Bike & A Road.

Another Koyama Press author I esteem is Jesse Jacobs. I reviewed two of his books, By This You Shall Know Him here and Crawl Space for the Comics Journal; both books are excellent. 

Julia Wertz's The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is simultaneously hilarious and painful. I wrote a brief review of it here, but you should search it out and read it for yourself.

But these are just a small part of Koyama Press's output. Annie Koyama published many other great books, most of which are still available for purchase. You can see them here. I've read about 35 of them, but there are actually quite a few I haven't read. Her standard of quality was high. I know she has been giving artists grants through her personal grant-making venture, Koyama Press Provides. But I believe that is meant to end when the press does. So I wonder what Annie Koyama is going to do next. Something personally satisfying, I suspect.

The Best Comics of The Decade

Robert Boyd

In 1990, I worked on one of my favorite publishing projects, a two-volume anthology called The Best Comics of the Decade, published by Fantagraphics Books and co-edited with Gary Groth and Kim Thompson. The thesis behind these volumes was that the 80s had seen an explosion of great comics in anthologies (like RAW and Weirdo), in newspapers (specifically in alternative newsweeklies), and in what at the time was called alternative comics (which included publishers like us, Fantagraphics Books). Another part of our thesis was that most of the greatest works had been in short stories. The age of the graphic novel hadn't yet arrived, although Maus volume 1 had been published in 1986.



Our volumes excluded superheroes from Marvel and DC, partly because we were snobs about mainstream comics, but partly because we didn't have access to that material. If we had, would we have included something? Maybe an excerpt from Watchmen? We did include an Alan Moore story which we loved, called "Pictopia," which is a weird story about how the innocent fun of old-time heroes in comics had been replaced by a grim and cynical type of superhero--one that Alan Moore himself is partly responsible for (along with Frank Miller).

The thing about assembling this volume was that we editors felt that knowing what comics actually were published in the 80s was a doable task. We had each read thousands of pages of comics and felt like we had a grasp of what had been published. (Because we thought that book buyers back then would never shell out for a 240-page book of comics, we published it in two volumes. That's another thing that has changes a lot in the past 30 years.)



Things have changed. Back then, "alternative comics" (i.e., anything that wasn't super-hero comics) were eking out an existence on the fringes. While superheroes now dominate our pop culture, in the world of comics, they are no longer utterly dominate comics mind-space as they once did. They still do to a certain extent--I know when I tell someone I am interested in comics, they usually ask about superheroes. As I have pointed out many times before, I am interested in comics as a category of art, like literature, theater, music, film, visual art. (To limit it to one genre or format is something I am not willing to do, especially a genre controlled by two large entertainment megacorporations, Warner Brothers--which owns DC Comics and all its properties--and Disney--which owns Marvel and all its properties.)

But in the 2010s, so many comics have been published that there is almost no way one person could have read them all. (I would fear for the sanity of anyone who tried.) Nonetheless, some brave souls have attempted to construct their own "best of the decade" lists. This decade has been dominated by book-sized publications, which is reflected in their lists. The lists I looked at were:

• Comic Books Are Burning in Hell
• Entertainment Weekly
• The A.V. Club
• Polygon
• The Comics Beat
• The Guardian

The best list in my opinion is Comic Books Are Burning in Hell's, and it is also the shortest. The Beat's is the longest. The total of all five lists is 130 titles (or 129, because there is some overlap on a Batman title). The lists are mostly unranked. (I'll put the whole list at the bottom of this post.)

It occurred to me that one way to rank the comics would be to look at which ones appeared on multiple lists. So with a long morning of Excel-ery, I have made a list of the most highly regarded comics of the decade by that criterion (appearing on multiple best-of lists).

Here are all the titles that appeared on at least two lists:

• Hawkeye, Matt Fraction and David Aja, 4
• Mister Miracle, Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Clayton Cowles, 3
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm, 3
• Prince Of Cats, Ron Wimberly, 3
• Hark! A Vagrant!, Kate Beaton, 3
• Lumberjanes, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Brooklyn A. Allen, Carolyn Nowak, Carey Pietsch, Ayme Sotuyo, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese, with Brittney Williams, Faith Erin Hicks, Aimee Fleck, Rebecca Tobin, Felicia Choo, and T. Zysk, 3
• Daytripper, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, 3
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Emil Ferris, 3
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, 3
• Batman, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, 2
• Copra, Michel Fiffe, 2
• The Nib, Matt Bors and a cast of thousands, 2
• Monstress, Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, and Rus Wooton, 2
• This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, 2
• The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, 2
• The River At Night , Kevin Huizenga, 2
• House Of X/Powers Of X, Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, Marte Gracia, Clayton Cowles, and Tom Muller, 2
• Giant Days, John Allison, Max Sarin, Lissa Treiman, Whitney Cogar, and Jim Campbell, 2
• Black Hammer, Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, 2
• Thor, Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman, 2
• The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez, 2
• Goodnight Punpun, Inio Asano, 2
• You & A Bike & A Road, Eleanor Davis, 2
• Last Look, Charles Burns, 2
• O Human Star, Blue Delliquanti, 2 

I have only read six of these in their entirety. The Nib would be difficult to read all of--it's a political comics site that one dives in in bits and pieces. But I've read a LOT of the comics there; I highly recommend it. I've read a bit of Lumberjanes and Copra, but didn't really connect with them. I haven't read any of the superhero titles because that's a genre I've outgrown in comics. And as for the rest, I've heard of most of them...

Perhaps a better way to look at it would be to see which authors and artists were referenced most frequently by appearing on multiple lists with multiple titles. Of course, I made a similar list.

• Matt Fraction 6
• Eleanor Davis 5
• Scott Snyder 4
• Brian K. Vaughan 4
• Tom King 4
• Jamie McKelvie 3
• Jason Aaron 3
• Blue Delliquanti 3 
• Emily Carroll 3 
• Greg Capullo 3 
• Jaime Hernandez 3
• Jillian Tamaki 3
• Kieron Gillen 3
• Mariko Tamaki 3
• Emil Ferris 3
• Gabriel Bá 3
• Fábio Moon 3
• Kate Beaton  3
• Ron Wimberly 3
• Ryan North 3
• Alan Moore 2
• Jason Latour 2
• Olivier Schrauwen 2
• Raina Telgemeier 2
• Sam Alden 2
• Charles Burns 2
• Inio Asano 2
• Jeff Lemire 2
• John Allison 2
• Jonathan Hickman 2
• Kevin Huizenga 2
• Marjorie Lu 2
• Matt Bors 2
• Michel Fiffe 2

The number refers to the number of times a person appeared anywhere on any of the lists. Several appeared in anthologies that made the list (Mould Map 3 and Smut Peddler 2012 Edition, specifically).

I'm willing to agree with the consensus in one small way: Eleanor Davis is the comics artist of the decade. What a privilege is has been to see her blossom as a cartoonist.

It is interesting to look at this list and see who among them were also in The Best Comics of the Decade in 1990. The only three who made both were Charles Burns, Jaime Hernandez and Alan Moore (three giants, to be sure).

OK, given that I have read only a small fraction of the comics that were published between 2010 and 2019 (and given that I have only read some on the master list that I will reproduce below), here are my favorites, selected by perusing my bookshelves 10 minutes ago:

• Sir Alfred No. 3 by Tim Hensley (Pigeon Press, 2015)

• Tenements, Towers & Trash by Julia Wertz (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2017)

• Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little (Dark Horse Comics, 2010)

• Over Easy by Mimi Pond (Drawn & Quarterly, 2014)

• The Property by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly, 2013)

• Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018)

• The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019)

• Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks (Fantagraphics Books, 2014)

• Incidents in the Night by David B (Uncivilized Books, 2013)

• You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis (Koyama Press, 2017)

• The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books, 2014)

• Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket, 2018)

I have personal connections with many of the artists here, and I've met all of them except for Julia Wertz and David B.

This is the most I've thought about comics in one sustained burst in a long time.  I wish I had insights about the past decade to share. I don't except to note how that book has become the dominant form and that female artists and artists of color are now the dominant figures in art of comics. They make up more than 50% of my personal list, at least. That's a big shift.

I want to dedicate this post to the memory of my friend Tom Spurgeon, who died in November.

Addendum: Some additional best-of lists made me want to revise these compiled lists, which I have done here.

Here is the combined best-of list mentioned above:

• “Time” by Randall Munroe
• 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa
• A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Olma and Steven LeCroy
• Afterlife With Archie by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, Francesco Francavilla, and Jack Morelli
• All-New Wolverine by Tom Taylor, David Lopez, David Navarrot, Marcio Takara, IG Guara, Bob Wiacek, Victor Olazaba, Walden Wong, Nik Virella, Scott Hanna, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Leonard Kirk, Cory Hamscher, Marc Deering, Terry Pallot, Juann Cabal, Marco Failla, Ramon Rosanas, Nathan Fairbairn, Jordan Boyd, Mat Lopes, John Rauch, Michael Garland, Jesus Aburtov, Erick Arciniega, Nolan Woodard, and Cory Petit
• Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Christina “Steenz” Stewart
• Arsène Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen
• Basquiat by Julian Voloj and Søren Mosdal
• Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo
• Batman: The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock, Francesco Francavilla, David Baron, Jared K. Fletcher, and Sal Cipriano
• Batman: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo
• Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
• Becoming Unbecoming by Una
• Berlin by Jason Lutes
• Big Kids by Michael DeForge
• Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine DeLandro, Cris Peters, Kelly Fitzpatrick, and Clayton Cowles
• Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston
• Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
• Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien
• Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu
• Building Stories by Chris Ware
• Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
• Clyde Fans by Seth
• Copra by Michel Fiffe
• Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• Daredevil by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Javier Rodriguez, Matt Wilson, and Joe Caramagna
• Daytripper by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon
• Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot
• Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell, Mike Feehan, Mark Morales, Sean Parsons, Howard Porter, Jose Marzan Jr., Paul Mounts, and Dave Sharpe
• Fatherland: A Family History by Nina Bunjevac
• FF by Matt Fraction and Mike Allred
• Frontier #7 by Jillian Tamaki
• Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight by Polly Guo
• Generous Bosom by Conor Stechshulte
• Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, Lissa Treiman, Whitney Cogar, and Jim Campbell
• Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak
• Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano
• Grip by Lale Westvind
• Guts by Raina Telgemeier
• Hark! A Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
• Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja
• Hellboy in Hell by Mike Mignola
• Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki
• Here by Richard McGuire
• Hilda & The Black Hound by Luke Pearson
• Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor
• Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
• House Of X/Powers Of X by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, Marte Gracia, Clayton Cowles, and Tom Muller
• How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
• How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez
• It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden
• Julio's Day by Gilbert Hernandez
• Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
• Last Look by Charles Burns
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valerio-O’Connell
• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
• Lumberjanes by Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Brooklyn A. Allen, Carolyn Nowak, Carey Pietsch, Ayme Sotuyo, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese, with Brittney Williams, Faith Erin Hicks, Aimee Fleck, Rebecca Tobin, Felicia Choo, and T. Zysk
• March by Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
• Margot’s Room by Emily Carroll
• Mister Miracle by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Clayton Cowles
• Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, and Rus Wooton
• Mould Map 3 by Aidan Koch, Amalia Ulman, Angie Wang, Ben Mendelewicz, Blaise Larmee, Brenna Murphy, CF, Cody Cobb, Daniel Swan, Dmitry Sergeev, Gabriel Corbera, GHXYK2, Hugh Frost, Jacob Ciocci, James Jarvis, Joseph Kelly, Jonas Delaborde, Jonathan Chandler, Jonny Negron, Julien Ceccaldi, Karn Piana, Kilian Eng, Lala Albert, Lando, Leon Sadler, Matthew Lock, Noel Freibert, Olivier Schrauwen, Robert Beatty, Sam Alden, Sammy Harkham, Simon Hanselmann, Stefan Sadler, Viktor Hachmang & Yuichi Yokoyama
• Ms Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt, Elmo Bondoc, Takeshi Miyazawa, Nico Leon, Francesco Gaston, Marco Failla, Diego Olortegui, Ian Herring, Irma Knivila, and Joe Caramagna, with Saladin Ahmed, Rainbow Rowell, Hasan Minhaj, Devin Grayson, Eve L. Ewing, Jim Zub, Gustavo Duarte, Joey Vazquez, Kevin Libranda, Minkyu Jung, Juan Vlasco, and Bob Quinn
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
• My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
• My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, Caleb Cook, and John Hunt
• My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
• O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti
• Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran
• On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• Patience by Daniel Clowes
• Peplum by Blutch
• Poochytown by Jim Woodring
• Prince Of Cats by Ron Wimberly
• Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan
• Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
• Rock Candy Mountain by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
• Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Sex Fantasy by Sophia Foster Dimino
• Silver Surfer by Dan Slott and Michael Allred
• Sir Alfred no. 3 by Tim Hensley
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier
• Smut Peddler 2012 Edition by Rebecca Ruby, Megan Furesz, Trisha L. Sebastian, Erin Basie, M. Magdalene, Mr. Darcy, Betty Jean Doe, Nora Riley, Kel McDonald, Rennie Kingsley, Erika Moen, Leia Weathington, Algesiras, Dwam, Argets, Ursula Wood, Jennifer Doyle, E.K. Weaver, Magnolia Porter, Shari Hes, Steve Horton, Erica Leigh Currey, Alice Fox, B. White, Ambrosia, Alice Hunt, Dechanique, Carla Speed McNeil, Karate McDanger, Jess Fink, Blue Delliquanti, Nechama Frier, Pupcake Jones, Lee Blauersouth, Abby Lark, Theo Lorenz, C. Spike Trotman, Diana Nock, Amanda Lafrenais
• Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron, Jason Latour
• Spider-Gwen by Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez
• Sunburning by Keiler Robert
• Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto
• Super Late Bloomer by Julia Kaye
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
• The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
• The End of the F@(U$*#+g World by Charles Forsman
• The Fifth Beatle by Vivek Tiwary, Andrew Robinson
• The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis
• The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino
• The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett
• The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez
• The Multiversity by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Chris Sprouse, Karl Story, Walden Wong, Ben Oliver, Frank Quitely
• The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon
• Nemo by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• The Nib by Matt Bors and a cast of thousands
• The Oven by Sophie Goldstein
• The Passion Of Gengoroh Tagame by Bruno Gmuender
• The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin
• The Property by Rutu Modan
• The River At Night by Kevin Huizenga
• The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman, JH Williams III and Dave Stewart
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm
• The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire
• The Walking Dead #193 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard
• The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Thor by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman