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The 2010 FPI Master List

23. January 2011

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Every year Joe Gordon sends out requests for best of year lists from various comic people; artists, writers, journalists, retailers, and various other interested (and interesting) parties. And we’ve been running the various commentaries on the Best of 2010 through most of December and the start of January (they’re all tagged here). And yet again [...]

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Best of the Year – Joe

17. January 2011

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Each year when it’s time for me to think about my favourite reading of the year it seems I have to struggle quite a bit. Not struggling to find stand-out comics and books but rather the opposite – struggling to try and narrow down my list into something reasonably short and readable. I think once [...]

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Best of the Year – Cliodhna Lyons

14. January 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year is from the very fine artist, animator, comics creator, powering force behind the Irish 24 Hour Comic Day and she’s a champion level hugger to boot, it’s the lovely Cliodhna Lyons: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell [...]

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Best of the Year – Kenny Penman

13. January 2011

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Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from long-time comics reader, retailer, FPI director, colleague and now publisher of the fine Blank Slate Books, Kenny Penman: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Kenny: A good year all [...]

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Best of the Year – Richard Cowdry

12. January 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from one of our own regular contributors, the man who brings us our weekly visit to the strange and frequently disturbing world of Somersault, as well as creating some fab small press comics and regularly posting some fascinating thoughts on the comics medium on his Love the [...]

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Best Of The Year – Dave Hopkins, Manager Nostalgia & Comics

11. January 2011

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A second best of the year today from my favourite comic shop in the world; Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham. And even though I’m very biased, having worked there, man and boy, for 19 years up until 2006 when we moved up here to Yorkshire, I think the recent refit and a renewed concentration in the store [...]

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Best of the Year – Andrew Salmond

10. January 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from Andrew Salmond, manager at one of London’s landmark comics emporiums, Gosh, home to a great selection of comics work and a store noted for not only selling the comics but offering some solid support of the medium too, from small press to Indy to the major publishers [...]

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Best Of The Year – Rich Nunn, Nostalgia & Comics

9. January 2011

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Here’s a short and sweet best of 2010 from Rich Nunn, staffer at the Birmingham Nostalgia & Comics store: New #1′s (1) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (2) Incognito : Bad Influences (3) Mindfield Ongoings (1) Scalped (2) Hellblazer (3) Walking Dead Graphic Novels (1) The Marvels Project (2) Black Widow – The Name Of The Rose (3) [...]

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Richard’s Propaganda List – Best Of Year 2010…

8. January 2011

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Well, personally I thought 2010 was one of the best years for comics I’d seen for a long time. However, that did mean that, when it came to making a long-list of the good comics I’d read this year it was a very, very long list. Even pruning that master list down mercilessly I still had [...]

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Best of the Year: Wim

7. January 2011

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Once more, we stand in front of our bulging book cases and wonder what it was that made this life wonderful.  And since 10, it would seem, is the magic number, here are ten books that really made my year. The Spirit by David Hines and Moritat, et al. (DC Comics) – This is the [...]

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