Each year we gather the various “Best Of” lists focused on comic books and graphic novels. We’ll have ours on January 1, so as to give everything released in 2012 a chance to make our list.
Here’s this year’s edition:
- A Comic Book Blog
- Amazon
- Barnes & Nobles
- Bleeding Cool – Irish Comics
- Bleeding Cool (Rich Johnston)
- Bloody Disgusting
- Booklist Online – graphic novels
- Booklist Online – graphic novels (youth)
- Brain Pickings
- Broken Frontier – UK Small Press
- CBR -When Worlds Collide - #20 to 11, #10 to 1
- CBR – Top 100 – #100 to 75, #74 to 50, #49 to 25, #24 to 11, #10 to 1
- CBR - CSBG – Top 10 Comics
- CBR – Robot 6
- Ciudadano Pop 20-11, 10-1
- ComicBook – 10 New Comics
- ComicBook – 10 Ongoing Comics
- ComicBookThinkTank
- ComicGate
- Comicosity
- ComicsAlliance – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- ComicsAlliance – Master List
- The Comics Reporter
- Comiks Debris
- Complex
- Complex – worst of list
- Costa Book Awards
- DC Women Kicking Ass
- Diana Tamblyn’s Comics and Illustrations
- Drawn
- Earth’s Mightiest Blog
- Fantagraphics
- Fast Company
- First Order Historians
- Forbidden Planet (Andrew Tunney)
- Forbidden Planet (Brendan McCarthy)
- Forbidden Planet (Chris Ryall)
- Forbidden Planet (Tony Bennett)
- Four Colours & the Truth
- FPI Blog
- The Globe and Mail
- GoodReads
- Graphic Content
- Graphic Novel Reporter
- Graphic Novel Resources
- The Guardian
- Heat Vision
- iFanboy
- IGN
- Images and Nerds
- The Independent – one graphic novel included in their books list.
- io9
- Kirkus
- Kirkus
- Largehearted Boy
- Library Journal
- Look at OKC
- Madinkbeard
- Maybe Blogging Will Help
- MTV Geek – comics
- MTV Geek – graphic novels
- MTV Geek – manga
- Nerdage
- Nerdy Book Club
- The New York Times
- News OK
- Newsarama
- NPR
- The Onion
- The Onion
- Par La Bande
- Paste Magazine
- Politics and Prose
- Publishers Weekly
- Rob Kirby Comics
- Salon
- School Library Journal
- School Library Journal
- Slate
- StarTribune
- Talking Comics
- Talking Comics (Stephanie Cooke)
- Talking Comics (Mara Whiteside)
- Talking Comics (Steve Seigh)
- Three Imaginary Girls
- USA Today
- YALSA
- The Village Voice
- The Washington Post
- Wired – Geek Mom
- Wired – Underwire
We’ll be updating this with lists as we see them, but feel free to add lists in the comments or contact us!
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