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Publishers Weekly selects its best graphic novels of 2011
Infinite Kung Fu
Publishers Weekly is, I think, the first major outlet out of the gate with its Best Books of 2011 list, which includes the Top 10 graphic novels of the year:
- Zahra’s Paradise, by Amir and Kahlil (First Second)
- Daytripper, by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon (DC Comics/Vertigo)
- Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)
- The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media, by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld (Norton)
- Love and Rockets: New Stories #4, by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
- Infinite Kung Fu, by Kagan McLeod (Top Shelf)
- Finder: Voice, by Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
- Big Questions, by Anders Nilsen (Drawn and Quarterly)
- Farm 54, by Galit and Gilad Seliktar (Fanfare Ponent Mon)
- Habibi, by Craig Thompson (Pantheon)
12 Comments
Trey
November 7, 2011 at 10:17 am
Where TF is Johns and Lee’s Justice League? FU Publishers weekly!
Hark a Vagrant is amusing, amateurish, hardly great LMAO
JRC
November 7, 2011 at 10:22 am
Justice League hasn’t even been collected yet Trey.
The first story won’t even finish until 2012.
And Hark A Vagrant amateurish? Sorry, they don’t print amateurs in the New Yorker
derp.
Erik
November 7, 2011 at 10:52 am
@JRC I think Trey was being self-awarely satirical. I think.
Regardless, I dug Daytripper and am really, really glad someone’s giving Carla Speed her props.
JRC
November 7, 2011 at 12:11 pm
derp retracted.
Michael P
November 7, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Never assume that someone on the Internet isn’t being genuinely stupid.
Meanwhile, isn’t 2011 not over yet?
Chris Jones
November 7, 2011 at 1:27 pm
It’s not, but you gotta figure their final list was going to look something like that anyway. Hella respectable choices.
majorjoe23
November 7, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Plus, at this point it’s probably possible to get review copies of most things due out before the end of the year.
Riley
November 8, 2011 at 12:05 am
If Infinite Kung Fu is really that good then I probably need to check it out, bein a huge chopsocky fan and all.
chess
November 8, 2011 at 5:46 am
Daytripper isn’t a Graphic Novel. It’s a trade paperback collecting the mini series. Graphic Novel is just a term for high brow literary types to call comics so they don’t have to tell people they read comics.
db
November 8, 2011 at 7:58 am
I am reading Finder right now..pretty cool. Habibi is a towering acheivement…I still love Thompson’s Blankets the best, though.
Kat Kan
November 8, 2011 at 8:32 am
Infinite Kung Fu is great fun, full of chopsocky action and lots of tropes familiar to anyone who has watched even just a few kung fu movies in his/her life.
John
December 7, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I thought Hark! A Vagrant was laugh-out-loud hilarious, personally.
What I didn’t think was that it counts as a graphic novel. It’s a collection of mostly four-panel strips.