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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 (to date) tally of all lists and rankings here.



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Abandoned Cars

Tim Lane America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters—boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis. An impressive debut of a major new talent.  Product Details...
$22.99



Angry Youth Comix Vol. 2 #14

Johnny Ryan In this issue Boobs Pooter reveals THE WORLDS FUNNIEST JOKE!  Product Details...
$3.50



Beasts! Book 2

Various Artists Like the first book, this deluxe collection includes a Who’s Who of the contemporary art world, collectively crafting a menagerie of mythological creatures, monsters, beasts and things that go bump in the night.  Product Details...
$34.99



Bottomless Belly Button

Dash Shaw In this atmospheric, nuanced 700+ page comedy-drama, the announcement of a planned divorce by Maggie & David Loony sparks a week-long family reunion at the dysfunctional family's creepy (and possibly haunted) beach house.  Product Details...
$29.99



Daddy's Girl

Debbie Drechsler A new edition of the groundbreaking collection of short comic stories. Drechsler's quasi-memoir is one of the most searingly honest, empathetic, and profoundly disturbing uses of the comics medium in its history.  Product Details...
$14.95



Deitch's Pictorama

Kim, Simon, & Seth Deitch A unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book that alternates between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose pieces; a testament to the Deitch family's amazing yarn-spinning abilities!  Product Details...
$18.99



Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips (1956-66) [2nd Ed. Backorder]

Jules Feiffer The first of four volumes collecting Feiffer's entire run of weekly strips from the Village Voice. This edition contains about 500 strips originally published from 1956 - 1966 in a gigantic landscape hardcover format.  Product Details...
$35.00



Ganges #2

Kevin Huizenga Everyman Glenn Ganges ruminates on the simple times of the dot-com era when the reality of business was propped up by the unreality of addictive technology and hope, in the form of networked first-person shooter video games.  Product Details...
$7.95



Ghost World: Special Edition

Daniel Clowes This deluxe new edition of our most popular book ever expands the original graphic novel with the Oscar-nominated screenplay of the film adaptation and dozens of pages of ephemera and other extras, all annotated by Clowes.  Product Details...
$39.99



Grotesque #2

Sergio Ponchione A long time ago, a devious late-night pact altered the destiny of small community, its inhabitants forever cursed to live as mere clay in the hands of the capricious Mr. O’Blique and the Wicked Barons. But is change finally afoot?  Product Details...
$7.95



Hall of Best Knowledge

Ray Fenwick "Typographical comics": part graphic novel, part art object, part satire, part puzzle. A peculiar and humorous examination of the idea of genius and the problems that arise in the search and transmission of knowledge.  Product Details...
$19.99



Hotwire Comics Vol. 2

Various Artists The cartoon anthology that puts the kicks back in comics strikes again. Climb on board the Hotwire express for another electrifying joyride, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and all parts in between.  Product Details...
$22.99



Interiorae #3

Gabriella Giandelli Things are getting weirder in the apartment house. Amid the domestic scenes (two teens recording a rock song, a couple breaking up, an old lady seeking inner peace), the supernatural beings who haunt the building grow uneasy.  Product Details...
$7.95



Jessica Farm Vol. 1

Josh Simmons Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, this atmospheric graphic novel fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with Simmons' signature macabre sensibility.  Product Details...
$14.99



Love and Rockets Book 24: The Education of Hopey Glass

Jaime Hernandez In these "Locas" stories, Ray pursues the train-wreck bombshell "Frogmouth"; an eventful week in the life of Hopey; and Maggie, off stage but visible as Ray's resentful ex and (forever and still) Hopey's best friend.  Product Details...
$19.99



Love and Rockets Library (Part 3): Beyond Palomar

Gilbert Hernandez Collects two groundbreaking works: "Poison River" traces the backstory of Luba, from child to teenage mob bride to her escape to Palomar; "Love and Rockets X" is a wide-ranging, Altman-esque story set in early-1990s L.A.  Product Details...
$16.95



Love and Rockets Library (Part 3): Perla La Loca

Jaime Hernandez In these classic "Locas" stories, Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in "Wigwam Bam"; Maggie contends with her inner demons, a murderous hooker, and an amorous lady wrestler; and Maggie, getting married?  Product Details...
$16.95



Love and Rockets Library (Part 4): Amor Y Cohetes

Los Bros. Hernandez All of the non-"Locas," non-"Palomar" stories from Love and Rockets Vol. 1, collected in one convenient package. Beto's "BEM," "Frida" and "My Love Book"; Jaime's "Rocky and Fumble"; and much more.  Product Details...
$16.99



Love and Rockets: New Stories #1

The Hernandez Brothers This new series reboots the beloved ongoing comic into a fat, all-new annual graphic novel length package. 100 pages of Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez at the peak of their powers: this is a major graphic novel event!  Product Details...
$14.99



Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert

Bill Schelly This full-bodied biography provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the career of one of the most distinctive, dynamic artists in the history of comics.  Product Details...
$19.99




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