And after bedtime, barely able to turn a page, I cuddled up with Rachel Maddow and dreams of Robert Muellers dancing in my head.
So… 2018 was more of a toddler year for me than a voluminous reading year. (First Second) Weing draws some of the cutest, nerdy little monsters in this wonderful series about gentrification, urban planning and showing empathy for others. The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo: The Monster Mall by Drew Weing. (First Second) Brosgol is such an underappreciated cartoonist and she’ll make you fall in love with her cute, awkward adolescent self in this wonderful memoir about trying to fit in at a Russian scout camp. Despite being animals, the kids and their antics are so silly and relatable it reads like cinéma vérité for early elementary school readers.īe Prepared by Vera Brosgol. (Scholastic/Graphix) A delightful first-day-of-class tale about some anthropomorphic fourth graders and their new teacher.
(Scholastic/Graphix) A sequel to Witch Boy that’s even better than the original and continues to cleverly explore gender roles through the eyes of a boy who is not permitted to practice witchcraft within his matriarchal society. It’s a heartwarming and unexpected story about romance, royalty and being yourself that you couldn’t imagine anyone in children’s lit publishing even five years ago. (First Second) One of the best-looking comics of the year (in any category) and one that should make Jen Wang a superstar. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang. My kids and I read just about everything that came out this year in that category and here’s 5 books we liked the most, in no particular order. This is the first year in about a decade that I didn’t keep up on much of what’s new in comics with the exception of elementary and middle school graphic novels. Yotsuba&! 14, by Kiyohiko Azuma (Yen Press) Petit: The Ogre Gods, by Hubert Boulard and Bertrand Gatignol (Lion Forge) Space Academy 123, by Mickey Zacchilli (Koyama Press) To Your Eternity, by Yoshitoki Oima (Kodansha) Persephone, by Loic Locatelli-Kournswky (Archaia) My Hero Academia, by Kohei Horikoshi (Viz) Say It with Noodles, by Shing Yin Khor (Catapult)
Land of the Sons, by Gipi (Fantagraphics) Judas, by Jakub Rebelka and Jeff Loveness (Boom!) In the interests of keeping things individual and unpredictable, we let our listmakers choose their own criteria for inclusion, and decide for themselves whether or not their selections needed explanation. We asked a wide array of our contributors and other comics figures to share their favorite comics from the past calendar year.
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