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2012 Critics' Picks

The books in this category have been selected by critics, fellow artists, readers and other comics professionals as the Best of 2012. More titles will be added as they are announced. Click "Product Details" to see lists and rankings for each title. See also the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 lists.



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Angelman

Nicolas Mahler The funniest super-hero parody since Kurtzman & Wood’s “Superduperman!” Angelman’s powers (including empathy and being a good listener) prove less than adequate to deal with villains — not to mention the comics industry and its fans.  Product Details...
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Athos in America

Jason An all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas with more tales of love and loss among the dog- and cat-headed: “The Smiling Horse,” “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” “A Cat From Heaven,” “Tom Waits on the Moon,” and more.  Product Details...
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Barack Hussein Obama

Steven Weissman What does it mean to live in America today? If you know there’s no right answer to that question, you’ll want to read Barack Hussein Obama — a book about you; about your country, your family, your president.  Product Details...
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Blacklung

Chris Wright One of the most impressive graphic novel debuts in recent years, a sweeping, magisterially conceived, visually startling tale of violence, amorality, fortitude, and redemption, one part Melville, one part Peckinpah.  Product Details...
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Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)

Harvey Kurtzman et al. Classic war-story masterpieces written by Kurtzman and drawn by himself or by others from his layouts. An unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history.  Product Details...
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Dungeon Quest, Book 3

Joe Daly Our roaming heroes return for the most rousing and epic installment of their adventures yet with a whole new level of bizarre comedy and ass-kicking action, featuring new abilities, new equipment, new perils, and new fantastic backdrops!  Product Details...
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Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons

Flannery O'Connor Before she became a literary legend, she wanted to be a cartoonist. Her rough-hewn technique combined with her acidic observations to form a visual precursor to her prose. This is the first book collecting this early visual work.  Product Details...
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Glitz-2-Go

Diane Noomin The original Twisted Sister finally gets her due in this collection of nearly 40 years of stories starring DiDi Glitz, the frustrated middle-aged glamour-puss and anxiety-ridden suburban Sisyphus.  Product Details...
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God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls

Jaime Hernandez The rollicking superhero romp (which doubles as a genuinely dramatic fable about madness, grief, and motherhood) from Love and Rockets: New Stories is collected in a "director's cut" hardcover with 30 new pages of story.  Product Details...
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Heads or Tails [with Special Offer]

Lilli Carré A stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today, touching on ideas of flip sides, choices, and extreme ambivalence.  Product Details...
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Interiorae

Gabriella Giandelli As the residents of a high-rise apartment building in an unnamed European city go about their lives, a ghostly, shape-shifting anthropomorphic white rabbit observes them and reports to the "great dark one" in the basement.  Product Details...
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Kolor Klimax: Nordic Comics Now

Various Artists This anthology of comics — many of them created especially for this book — offers an intoxicating and compelling sampling of current works from Scandinavia. Skaal!  Product Details...
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Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

Pat Thomas A provocative collection of African-American cultural history and a chronicle of a sociopolitical movement as documented by its recorded media — speeches, poetry, and music — illustrated with record art and other ephemera.  Product Details...
$39.99



Love and Rockets: New Stories #5

The Hernandez Brothers The 30th Anniversary issue! Gilbert brings his current character "Killer" into the Palomar milieu in a much-anticipated homecoming; Jaime delves deeper into the sordid world surrounding Vivian "the Frogmouth."  Product Details...
$14.99



Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945

Ernie Bushmiller Zen cartoon perfection in four panels. Our introductory Nancy volume contains three full years of the "squarest," most iconic comic strip ever created. Introduction by Daniel Clowes.  Product Details...
$24.99



No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics [Sold Out]

Various Artists The first definitive collection of queer comics gathers the world's greatest LGBT comics under one cover. Sold out, but available digitally from comiXologyProduct Details...
$35.00



Prince Valiant Vol. 5: 1945-1946

Hal Foster Valiant's globetrotting adventures, fueled by his obsessive search for his bride-to-be Aleta, take him to North Africa and the Middle East and back home to Camelot (via Athens and Gaul). This is Foster at the peak of his prowess.  Product Details...
$29.99



Prison Pit: Book 4

Johnny Ryan CF attempts to escape the Caligulon by brainf***ing the Slorge to create a giant, brainless oafchild that only knows how to annihilate. When the Slugstaxx turn this monster against CF with their nightj*** it's Total F***ing Mayhem.  Product Details...
$12.99



Significant Objects

Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker, eds. 100 of the best stories by a dazzling array of writers about actual ordinary objects which were auctioned to measure the stories' effect on the objects' value. A bold literary and economic experiment; now a book.  Product Details...
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Spacehawk

Basil Wolverton Spacehawk had but one mission in life: to protect the innocent throughout the Solar System, and to punish the guilty. Every story from Spacehawk’s intergalactic debut in 1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942.  Product Details...
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