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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Best of 2006?
:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/09/2007 05:01:00 AM As I mentioned in the previous post, it was harder than ever to keep up with comics published in Canada in 2006. And Canuck books faced quite a bit of competition for my attention from the surfeit of US, Japanese and Euro comics that have been flooding the market the last few years. For the most part, I have been spending a lot of time with the big classic strip reprints of Popeye, Gasoline Alley, Peanuts and Krazy Kat and neglecting contemporary comics outside of this linkblog.
That being said, I can recommend a few good books that I didn't get around to reviewing in 2006. The best "graphic novel" I read was Joe Ollman's collection of shorts, This Will All End In Tears. I can also recommend the teen angst OEL manga Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova as an affecting work from a very promising young talent (Jamie Coville reviews the latest volume here). Lastly, the smartest strip collection (and the best political cartoon) this past year was Weltschmerz by Gareth Lind.
Besides Joe Ollman, lots of other comics, French and English, came out of Quebec in 2006. Sequential correspondent Pierre-Andre Dery weighs in with his picks for "some of the best of 2006 in Quebec":
Quelques Pelures (Augmented reprint) by Jimmy Beaulieu (Mecanique Generale)
Paul a la peche by Michel Rabagliati (La Pasteque)
Rapide-Blanc by Pascal Blanchet (La Pasteque)
Troglodytes by Paul Bordeleau (Webcomic to see print later in 2007)
Ojingogo by Matt Forsythe (Webcomic)
And that's it --see you next year!Labels: news, Quebec
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