Tag Archive | "Best of the Year"

The 2011 FPI Master List

Monday, January 23, 2012

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Every year, FPI blogger-in-chief sends out the call to various comic types to send in their best of the year lists. And every year, you respond, quite brilliantly, with a huge variety of titles you really loved. It speaks volumes for the sheer quality around that from 31 respondents we had 93 comics nominated, comics [...]

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Best Of Year – Molly’s Picks…

Saturday, January 14, 2012

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Molly wanted to join in with the Best Of Year posts, and she deliberated a little while over it, before coming up with three great picks. One she’s already reviewed, one she’s written specially for this and a third that she was going to review yesterday. Except those troublesome teachers at her school do insist [...]

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Best of the Year – Clark Burscough

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Sneaking in at the very end of the annual FPI Best Of Year lists comes Clark Burscough, one of the people behind Leeds’ excellent Thought Bubble comics festival, an event that goes from strength to strength each year. Mark it in your diaries now – 12th-18th November 2012. Thanks to Clark for getting involved…. FPI: [...]

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Best of the Year – Joe’s picks

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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It’s been another quite superb year for good reading and, like last year’s Best Of selection, I’ve been delighted at the diversity and quality of comics work coming out of the UK publishing scene, which seems to be going from strength to strength and like the more established science fiction and fantasy publishing in the [...]

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Best Of Year – Richard’s Propaganda List 2011

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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Here we go, late as usual, what I reckoned were the best ten comics published in 2011. And hell, it was a good, good year. There have been far, far, far too many comics released this year that I really wanted to read, and sadly some of the ones I’ve bought for myself, desperate to [...]

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Best of the Year – Maura McHugh

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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This final guest Best of the Year selection comes from commentator, reviewer and writer Maura McHugh, who has been impressing us with some of her own comics series this year: 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? Maura: [...]

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Best of the Year – Mark Kardwell

Monday, January 9, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from a long-time friend of the blog and a considerable commentator on and supporter of comics and books on his own Bad Librarianship blog, Northern Ireland’s own wandering librarian, Mark Kardwell: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and [...]

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Best of the Year – Joel Meadows

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from writer, comics champion and photographer, Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows: 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? JM: First of my choices is Joe The Barbarian by Grant Morrison and [...]

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10 best of 11

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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As is customary, our beloved editor inquired about what we thought were the best books of the past year.  ”Just pick your top three or something”, he said.  I picked 10.  It’s been that kind of year, so sue me.  For good reference, I divided them into neat little departments. The Dept of Epic Awesomeness [...]

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Best of the Year – Gary Northfield

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year selection comes from one of those fine, if barking mad, Fleece Station studio people, it’s Gary Northfield: 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? Gary: 1) Tank Tankuro by Gajo Sakamoto from [...]

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Best of the Year – Cliodhna Lyons

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year choices come from the very talented artist, animator and championship hugger Cliodhna Lyons: 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? Cliodhna: Top of the list has to be Dear Patagonia by Jorge [...]

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Best of the Year – Toon Horsten

Monday, January 2, 2012

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is a good chum of the blog from Europe, leading light of the Strip Turnhout festival and Stripgids comics journal, Toon Horsten; in the spirit of promoting cross-language comics reading I’m posting Toon’s faves of the year up in English and Dutch (thanks as ever to our [...]

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Best of the Year – Tom Humberstone

Friday, December 30, 2011

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is powerhouse Brit Indy comics creator turned publisher (with the standard-setting anthology Solipsistic Pop)  Tom Humberstone: 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? Tom: 1. Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson, [...]

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Best of the Year – Andrew Cheverton

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes hotter than a rattler on roller skates from that towering lawman of the old West, a man who always Walks Tall, Andrew Cheverton: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especiallyenjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Andrew: Meta4 [...]

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Best of the Year – Dan Berry

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year choices come from the excellent Dan Berry, who not only has enterained us with his comics work this year (such as the fab After We Shot the Grizzly, inspired by the lyrics of the Handsome Family song) but frequently brightens our day posting some cracking sketches on twitter: FPI: [...]

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