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2008 Critics' Picks

The books in this category were selected by critics, fellow artists, readers and other comics professionals as the Best of 2008. Click "Product Details" to see lists and rankings for each title; view the complete tally of all lists and rankings here. See also the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 lists.



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Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester

Bob Levin The unsettling life-imitates-art saga of Larry Flynt's most notorious protegé, "Chester the Molester" cartoonist Dwaine Tinsley, and his criminal trial after his teenage daughter accused him of sexually violating her.  Product Details...
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Petey & Pussy [with FREE Comics & Poster Bonus Pack!]

John Kerschbaum This graphic novel debut reads very much like a Loony Tunes cartoon — if all of the anthropomorphic animals were kvetching, balding, foul-mouthed misanthropes. A twisted combination of mundane realism and gross-out slapstick.  Product Details...
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Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories [Sold Out]

Jason A multifaceted collection of over 25 stories from the first decade of Jason's career, with croquet-playing nuns, sentient cacti, autobiographical drunken escapades, lists of people who deserve to die, and God cheating at Trivial Pursuit.  Product Details...
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Popeye Vol. 3: "Let's You and Him Fight!"

E.C. Segar Our third volume collecting the entirety of Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 and includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay.  Product Details...
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Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 [Revised Softcover Ed.]

Patrick Rosenkranz This definitive chronicle is the only major historical work about the most influential artistic movement in America since the Beat Generation. Now in a newly designed, expanded and revised softcover edition.  Product Details...
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Sammy the Mouse #2

Zak Sally Sammy can't find peace and quiet in his own home (because a giant finger is poking him in the skull, for one thing), and some new "friend" won't take "No" for an answer to a picnic. Plus more drunken, scary, mustachioed business.  Product Details...
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Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko

Blake Bell The first critical retrospective of the work of the reclusive Spider-Man co-creator traces his life and career, his stylistic innovations, and his philosophical principles, in a lushly-illustrated coffee-table book.  Product Details...
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Sublife Vol. 1 [with FREE Signed Bookplate]

John Pham A variety of stories told in a range of styles and voices, all demonstrating a singular vision. Issue one features the first self-contained chapter of "221 Sycamore St." as well as "Deep Space," a semi-comical sci-fi odyssey.  Product Details...
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Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4

Michael Kupperman The eagerly anticiwaited fourth issue does something no comic magazine has ever done before... it helps your family organize its entire day! With Pagus, Twain and Einstein, The Scaredy Kids, and Jungle Princess!  Product Details...
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The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 (Vol. 9) [NORTH AMERICA ONLY]

Charles Schulz As we rush toward the end of Peanuts' second decade, Snoopy looms large, Peppermint Patty ascends toward future stardom, Lucy antagonizes everyone and Charlie Brown is... Charlie Brown. Introduction by John Waters.  Product Details...
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The Last Musketeer

Jason Perhaps Jason's loopiest premise: the by-now centuries old musketeer Athos has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler. All this changes when Martians attack Earth, and suddenly a swashbuckling hero is needed.  Product Details...
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The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 [Sold Out]

Thomas Ott A prison guard finds a slip of paper with a mysterious sequence of numbers, which lead his luck to change from good to bad to worse in this chilling tale from the Swiss horror master.  Product Details...
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Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard

Robert Pollard A collection of art and lyrics from the legendary Guided by Voices singer/songwriter featuring over 175 of Pollard's favorite collages, hand-picked by the artist.  Product Details...
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Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes

Rory Hayes The underground's most notorious modern primitive finally gets his due. This book, the first retrospective of Hayes’ career, features the best of his underground comics, plus paintings, covers, and artifacts rarely seen by human eyes.  Product Details...
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Willie & Joe: The WWII Years [Softcover Ed.]

Bill Mauldin This new paperback edition brings together Mauldin’s complete works from 1940 through the end of the war under one cover. More than the record of a great artist, this is an essential chronicle of America’s citizen-soldiers.  Product Details...
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