Hi, folks – Happy New Year to you all, we hope you had a great time over the festive period. During the holidays Time has produced several ‘best of’ lists, including their pick of the ten best comics/graphic novels from 2005. Charles Burns’ Black Hole came in at the top position, with Andrew Arnold declaring: “Released in tantalizing chapters over ten years, Charles Burns’ atmospheric magnum opus of teenage sex and death has finally been collected as a hardcover book, creating the year’s best graphic novel. Set in the 1970s, Black Hole uses the tropes of that decade’s best horror movies — bell-bottoms, sex, monsters, drug use and murder — and twists them in unexpected ways to explore psychology, symbolism and the weirdness of growing up.”
David B’s Epileptic, Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: the Human Dilemma, Joan Sfar and Lewis Trondheim’s Dungeon Volume 2 also featured in Time’s list, with the lovely folks at Fantagraphics getting a couple of titles in there too, with Night Fisher by R Kikuo Johnson (which has been picking up all sorts of good reviews around the web) and Fanta’s collections Mome 1 and Mome 2 (indispensable anthologies for serious comics fans). In related news, in Times’s TV ‘best of’ list the new Battlestar Galactica series took the top spot.
Mon, Jan 2, 2006
Comics and cartoons