The Best Of lists keep coming. Time magazine has released their Top 10 picks for comics and graphic novels for 2013, penned by critic Douglas Wolk, with Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals as his number one pick.
1. Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
2. The Phoenix: The Weekly Story Comic, by various (David Fickling Books)
3. Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
4. Fran, by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics Books)
5. Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
6. Zombo: You Smell of Crime and I’m the Deodorant!, by Al Ewing and Henry Flint (2000AD)
7. Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, by Ben Katchor (Pantheon)
8. Very Casual: Some Stories, by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
9. Bad Houses, by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse Comics)
10. Incidents in the Night, Vol. 1, by David B. (Uncivilized Books)
A little different than the Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly lists (see "Amazon's Best Graphic Novels" and "PW's Top Graphic Novels of the Year"), but both of those focus exclusively on the graphic novel format.
'Sex Criminals' is Top Pick
Posted by ICv2 on December 4, 2013 @ 4:56 pm CT
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