As 2017 draws to a close, we’re compiling a list of Fantagraphics titles named “Best of” by various prestigious news outlets. Here are some of the highlights so far!
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
The only graphic novel on the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017
Entertainment Weekly‘s Best Graphic Novel of 2017
Forbes calls it “…one of the 10, maybe 5, best graphic novels ever.”
A Boston Globe Best Graphic Novel
A Book Riot Best Book of 2017
House of Women by Sophie Goldstein
#1 on of The Austin Chronicle‘s list of “Five Recent Graphic Novels to End This Crazy Year Right”
Featured in the Irish Times Favourite Comics and Graphic Novels of 2017
Eartha by Cathy Malkasian
Nominated by the Young Adult Library Association in their Great Graphic Novels for Teens category
Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary by Pat Thomas
One of The Stranger‘s Top 20 Books of 2017
Johnny Appleseed by Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver
A Boston Globe Best Graphic Novel
Street Fighting Men: Spain Vol. 1 by Spain Rodriguez
Included by The Village Voice in its “Celebration of Beautiful Art in an Otherwise Ugly Year”
Band for Life by Anya Davidson
Daily Grindhouse Top 10 Collected Volumes of 2017
Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn by Gerald Jablonski
Daily Grindhouse Top 10 Collected Volumes of 2017
Fred the Clown In…”The Iron Duchess” by Roger Langridge
One of Paste Magazine‘s 10 Best Kids Comics of 2017
Peppy in the Wild West by Hergé
One of Paste Magazine‘s 10 Best Kids Comics of 2017