Pond impressively paints the era with her pen and ink drawings and an unforgettable cast of characters. Mimi Pond's graphic novel Over Easy is an impressive semi-autobiographical coming of age story set in the late 1970s. Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya UlinichĪnya Ulinich's Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel is one of the year's best graphic novels, a book compelling, moving, and hilarious. Once again, MariNaomi proves herself one of the most talented cartoonists working today. MariNaomi's comics collection Dragon's Breath reads as memoir, the graphic vignettes powerfully understated. The year's most lauded graphic memoir deserves every accolade. Olivier Schrauwen's graphic novel Arsène Schrauwen is brilliant and unpredictable, and fantastic in every sense of the word.īeautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoëtīeautiful Darkness is a fairytale much more Grimm than Disney, hauntingly told by Fabien Vehlmann and complemented perfectly by the watercolor artwork of Kerascoët.Ĭan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast What was your favorite graphic novel of 2014? The result is an experience both utterly original and strangely familiar, like a. It uses simplified drawings, collage-like text and two colors (red and blue) to convey a narrative that moves between the real and the fantastic with grace and facility. These are the six graphic novels I have most recommended to friends, family, and anyone else who has crossed my path this year.Īll links go to the authors' contributions to the Book Notes series, where applicable. Arsene Schrauwen is one of the most complex, and simply best, comics released this year.
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