Fiona Hardy is our resident graphic novels and comics lover at Readings Carlton. She's looked back through the year of graphic memoirs, adaptations, anecdotes and stories and come up with her ten best graphic novels and comics of 2010.
Scott Pilgrim #6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
Brian Lee O’Malley
Recently made into a frenzied movie that puts all six books into two hours, the final instalment of the Scott Pilgrim saga has Scott defeating the final ex-boyfriend, the fiendish Gideon Graves. Hipster-cool and completely hilarious.
Sneak
peek at Scott Pigrim's Finest Hour.
Wilson
Daniel Clowes
Wilson is full of self-loathing and is horrible to everyone, but when his father calls on the verge of death, he travels to be with him, sparking a reconnect with his ex-wife and a spiral back down into being a massive jerk. A great book despite all that, though. Read our review.
Sneak peak of Daniel Clowes's Wilson.
Forget Sorrow
Belle Yang
As Belle hides in her family home, trying to escape an abusive ex-partner, her father recounts the devastating story of her heritage and gives her the strength she needs to recover.
Sneak peak of Belle Yang's Forget Sorrow.
Chew #2 International Flavor
John Layman & Rob Guillory
In the second Chew volume, Tony Chu—a man who can see the history of every food he eats, apart from beets—flies to a distant island to find the history of a plant that is changing the face of the planet.
Drinking at the Movies
Julia Wertz
Droll and cynical and somehow completely entertaining because of it, Julia draws the move from her beloved San Francisco to New York and how to survive as a struggling comic artist in the arts hub of America. It’s the sequel to the Fart Party books, which aren’t really about farts at all.
Sneak peak of Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies.
X’ed Out
Charles Burns
From the artist behind the brilliant Black Hole, X’ed Out is a surreal, Tintin-inspired look into the life of Doug, a young man who wakes up to find his world askew and diverging down strange paths.
Sneak
peak of Charles Burns's X'ed Out.
Hamlet
Nicki Greenberg
Readings favourite Nicki Greenberg draws up Shakespeare’s Hamlet where the characters are inkblots, able to blend and change for every scene; something’s rotten in the state of Denmark, but the book itself is a big, beautiful edition of the play.
Sneak peak of
Nicki Greenberg's Hamet.
Footnotes in Gaza
Joe Sacco
Gonzo graphic journalist Joe Sacco reports from Israel about a crime in Gaza from back in 1956 that has yet to be properly investigated. Political and poignant.
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Tony Lee, Cliff
Richards
The most entertaining mashup of recent times gets a visual version, which makes our dear Elizabeth Bennet dealing out some zombie smackdown all that much sweeter.
A scene from the graphic novel Pride & Prejudice &
Zombies.
Cats are Weird and More Observations
Jeffrey Brown
Possibly hard to relate to unless you’re a cat person, Brown’s slices of feline life are adorable, witty, and almost painfully true. My cat threw up—no joke—on his first book Cat Getting out of a Bag, probably just to prove how obnoxious cats are.
A sneak peak
at Jeffrey Brown's Cats are Weird and More Observations.
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