BEST COMICS OF 2018
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2018 was an amazing year in comics. Women are finally beginning to get the attention they deserve. We have gather some of the best women YouTubers to count down the top comic books for the year. Enjoy.
NERD BURGER : "Today I am so excited to sit down and chat with you all about my favourite comics that I read in 2018. I would to hear from you all. What were your favourite books this year? What are you looking forward to reading in 2019?"
Alchemss :Man! 2018 was one hell of a year for comics and us as well! Thank you guys for your continuous support in helping us reach 10k followers on IG with over 119,0061 likes on our content. Wowza!In this video we wrap up our favorite comics in the categories of best: story arc, character, cover, single issue, new series, trade paper back, and comic.
Series editor Bill Kartalopoulos
and (from left to right) contributors Julia Gfrörer, Julian Glander, Kevin Hooyman
, and Julia Jacquette
take a
look inside this year’s Best American Comics anthology. Buy a copy of
“The Best American Comics 2018” here: https://www.strandbooks.com/index.cfm...
“I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?)
a perfect language, robustly
evolving and expanding like any other living language,” writes Phoebe
Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This
year’s collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic
novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting
the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. Join us as
panelist Bill Kartalopoulos, Julia Gfrörer, Julian Glander, Kevin
Hooyman, and Julia Jacquette talk about this year in comics.
Bill Kartalopoulos
is a comics critic, educator, curator and editor. He
is the Series Editor for the #1 New York Times best selling Best
American Comics series published annually by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
He teaches courses about comics at Parsons and at the School of Visual
Arts and is the programming director for the annual MoCCA Arts Festival
in Manhattan. He lives in Brooklyn, NY where he is writing a book about
comics, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. For more
information, please visit on-panel.com
Julia Gfrörer
is a writer and cartoonist. She graduated from Cornish
College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and now lives on Long
Island. She has published several hand-made comics under her own
imprint, as well as two longer graphic novels, Laid Waste and Black Is
the Color, with Fantagraphics. Her work has also appeared in numerous
anthologies and publications, including Cicada Magazine, Arthur
Magazine, and Kramers Ergot 9. She recently translated and illustrated
excerpts from a medieval French heraldic text for 2dcloud’s MIRROR
MIRROR II anthology, which she co-edited with her partner, writer Sean
T. Collins.
Julian Glander is a 3D artist living in New York. His body of work
includes animation, illustration, short ?lms, video games, commercials,
and uh comics, I guess.
Kevin Hooyman
was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, in 1974. He grew up in
the great Northwest and now lives in New York.
Julia Jacquette
is an American artist based in New York City and
Amsterdam. Her work has been shown extensively at galleries and museums
around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and the RISD Museum, among other institutions.
Jacquette’s work was featured in solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum in
Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Wellin Museum in Clinton, New York,
publisher of her graphic memoir, Playground of My Mind, and a monograph,
Unrequited and Acts of Play. She has taught at the Rhode Island School
of Design and Princeton University, and is currently on the faculty at
the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC).
Recorded October 3rd, 2018
NotSoAverageJo Shares her Comic Book haul for 2018
