Every December we bring you a month-long celebration of a cross-section of comics’ great and good, picking their very best of the year and telling us a little of how the year has been for them. And 2012 was no exception.
As usual, the only predictable thing about the list that develops is simply how wide it is, a sterling indicator of just how diverse the readership is, and how varied and original the material they have to choose from.
This year we changed things around a little. Every year Joe asks those involved for their top 3 comics of the year, and every year there are some (we who write for the blog are guilty as heck of this) who pick 5, 10…. or in Zainab’s case this year a record breaking 21 comics. So when that happened I got in touch and got a top 3 for inclusion in the master list, which means we can say that this year, as well as being a wonderful list of recommended reads, it’s also statistically fairer than ever before!
We had 32 respondents nominating 75 different comics (I’ll post the full list of 75 titles in the comments later).
Here we go then…. the FPI Master List 2012, the best of the best…..
This year’s absolute winner, with 5 votes:
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics).
Second place with 4 votes:
Nao Of Brown by Glyn Dillon (Self Made Hero)
Joint third place with 3 votes:
2000AD by various (Rebellion)
Daredevil by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, Chris Samnee et al (Marvel)
Runners up with 2 votes: loads of them….
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (Jonathan Cape)
Blacksad: A Silent Hell by Canales and Guarnido (Dark Horse)
Building Stories by Chris Ware (Jonathan Cape)
But I Really Wanted to be an Anthropologist by Margaux Motin (Self Made Hero)
Department Of The Peculiar by Rol Hirst and Rob Wells
Ellerbisms by Marc Ellerby
Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis (Blank Slate Books)
Mudman by Paul Grist (Image Comics)
Thunder Brother Soap Division by Paul Rainey
Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
January 14th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
As promised, and as usual – the full list of comics put forward in the annual Best od Year lists at the FPI blog, from which hte master list is constructed….
2000AD by various
A Taste Of Chlorine by Bastien Vivès
America’s Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Baby Bjornstrand by Renee French
balderdash! (http://www.balderdashcomic.com/) by Victoria Grace Elliott
Batman: Judas Coin by Walter Simonson
Batwoman by JH Williams III
Blacklung by Chris Wright
Blacksad: a Silent Hell by Canales and Guarnido
Britten and Brülightly by Hannah Berry
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9 by Joss Whedon, Andrew Chambliss, Georges Jeanty et al
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Burnt Out by Julia Scheele
But I Really Wanted to be an Anthropologist by Margaux Motin
Case of Charles Dexter Ward by INJ Culbard, HP Lovecraft
Close Your Eyes When You Let Go by James Hindle
Coil by Emmas Rios
CowBoy by Nate Cosby, Chris Elipoulous
Dante’s Inferno by Hunt Emerson
Daredevil by Mark Waid et al
Daredevil: The IDW artist edition – David Mazzuchelli
Department of the Peculiar by Rol Hirst and Rob Wells
Dr Slump by Akira Toriyama
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Edison Rex by Roberson and Culver
Edward Ross Comics
Ellerbisms By Marc Ellerby
Everyday by Adam Cadwell
Everything Together by Sammy Harkham
Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitley
God & Science – Return of the Ti-Girls by Jaime Hernandez
Habibi by Craig Thompson
Hawkeye by Mattt Fraction and David Aja
Hilda and the Bird Parade by Luke Pearson
Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis
Hypernaturals by Dan Abnett and Brad Walker
Jailbird (http://an.oddlookingbird.com/) by Ashley Davis
Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
Krent Able’s Big Book Of Mischief
Laterborn #8 by Jason Martin
Le Trop Grand Vide d’Alphonse Tabouret by Capucine, Sybilline, d’Aviau
Lose #4 by Michael Deforge
Lou by Melissa Mendes
Love & Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez
MarineMan by Ian Churchill
Mudman by Paul Grist
Nao Of Bown by Glyn Dillon
New Deadwardians by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard
Nobrow 7 by Various
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
please god, find me a husband by Simone Lia
Prince Of Cats by Ron Wimberly
Prophet by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milogiannis
Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing
Saga by Vaughn and Staples
Soppy by Philippa Rice
Spandex by Martin Eden
Spooks by Dorison and Rossi
Stumptown: The Case Of The Baby In The Velvet Case #4 by Matthew Southworth and Greg Rucka,
The End of the Fucking World by Chuck Forsman
The Forming by Jesse Moynihan
The Great Unwashed by Gary and Warren Pleece
The Nameless Stories (http://amei.wratbox.com/nameless/0.html) by Amei Zhao
The Sky In Stereo by Mardou
The Speech Balloon Man by Tony Hitchman
The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell
Thunder Brother Soap Division (http://pbrainey.blogspot.co.uk/) by Paul Rainey
Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
Unwritten by Mike Carey, Peter Gross
Verity Fair by Terry Wiley
When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendae
Where is Jake Ellis by Edmondson, Zonjic
Windrush 1 (http://daventerprojects.blogspot.co.uk/) by T’Sao
January 14th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
I’ve only just read Sammy Hakham’s Everything Together- brilliant collection. Would definitely have made my list if I’d got round to it in time.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Oh yes…. I’m fully expecting to be doing the mental adding to the best of list for a month or more as I catch up – Summit Of The Gods Vol 3 would def have made it. Nao Of Brown as well – and I’m only halfway through it.