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We put together our lists of the best of 2014! We have several different categories, and everything on these lists below are the best things that came out this year.
On our podcast we discuss them all to arrive at the top of each category.
Best Writer
Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel
Best Colorist
Best Ongoing Series
Best Book
We already covered Best Artist, One-Shot/Single Issue/Short Story, Reprint, Miniseries, Trends, and New Series in Part One!
Best Writer (Starts at 1:48)
Jason Aaron – Men of Wrath, Southern Bastards, Thor
Sam Alden – Frontier, Haunter, It Never Happened Again, Wicked Chicken Queen
Brian Azzarello – Wonder Woman
Brian Michael Bendis – All-New X-Men, The United States of Murder Inc.
Box Brown – Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, New Physics, Number
Ed Brubaker – The Fade-Out, Velvet
Kurt Busiek – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw
Juan Diaz Canales – Blacksad
Emily Carroll – Frontier, Through the Woods
Farel Dalrymple – Wrenchies
Kelly Sue DeConnick – Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly
Rob Davis – The Motherless Oven
Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters – Lumberjanes
Warren Ellis – Moon Knight, Supreme Blue Rose, Trees
Matt Fraction – Hawkeye, Sex Criminals
Aisha Franz – Earthling
Kieron Gillen – Wicked & Divine
Gilbert Hernandez – Bumperhead
Jonathan Hickman – East of West, Manhattan Projects
Hubert – Beauty
Matt Kindt – Mind MGMT
Robert Kirkman – Outcast, The Walking Dead
Lucy Knisley – Age of License
Ales Kot – Zero, Secret Avengers
David Lapham – Juice Squeezers, Stray Bullets
Jake Lawrence – Teen Dog
Alec Longstreth – Basewood
Grant Morrison – Annihilator, Multiversity
Ryan North – The Midas Flesh
Bryan Lee O’Malley – Seconds
Frederick Peeters – Aama
John Porcellino – The Hospital Suite
Liz Prince – Tomboy
Rick Remender – Black Science, Captain America, Deadly Class, Low
Greg Rucka – Cyclops, Lazarus
Dash Shaw – Doctors
Dan Slott – Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Silver Surfer
Scott Snyder – Batman, American Vampire, Wake. Wytches
Charles Soule – Death of Wolverine, Letter 44, She-Hulk, Swamp Thing
Mariko Tamaki – This One Summer
Raina Telgemeier – Sisters
James Tynion IV – The Woods
Noah Van Sciver – I Don’t Hate Your Guts, Lizard Laughed
Brian K. Vaughan – The Private Eye, Saga
Sarah Vaughn – Alex + Ada
Fabien Vehlmann – Beautiful Darkness
Jen Wang – In Real Life
Joshua Williamson – Nailbiter, Birthright
G. Willow Wilson – Ms. Marvel
Gene Luen Yang – Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero
Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel (Starts at 50:05)
Adventure Time – Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline
Akissi – Marguerite Abouet, Mathieu Sapi
Amulet 6: Escape from Lucien – Kazu Kibuishi
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Rift – Gene Yang, Studio Gurihiru
Bad Machinery – John Allison
Buzz! – Ananth Panagariya, Tessa Stone
Cleopatra in Space 1: Target Practice – Mike Maihack
Costume Quest: Invasion of the Candy Snatchers – Zac Gorman
The Dumbest Idea Ever – Jimmy Gownley
The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza – James Kochalka
The Graveyard Book 1 & 2 – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell
Hilda and the Black Hound – Luke Pearson
Howtoons – Nick Dragotta, Saul Griffith, Ingrid Dragotta, Joost Bonsen
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
Juice Squeezers – David Lapham
Lumberjanes – Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Brooke Allen
Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch – Eric Orchard
Oak – Max Badger
Over the Garden Wall Special – Pat McHale, Jim Campbell
Sisters – Raina Telgemeier
Best Colorist (Starts at 1:05:58)
Jordie Bellaire – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw, Magneto, Moon Knight, Pretty Deadly, Zero
Brian Buccellato – Detective Comics
Matt Hollingsworth – Hawkeye, The Wake, Wytches
Marissa Louise – Robocop, Escape from New York
Lee Loughridge – Captain Marvel, Deadly Class, Fables, Juice Squeezers,
Frank Martin Jr. – East of West
Daniela Miwa – Shaft
FCO Plascensia – Batman
Val Staples – All-New Ghost Rider, Deadpool, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man,
Muntsa Vicente – Axis: Hobgoblin, The Private Eye, She-Hulk
Matthew Wilson – Thor, The Wicked + the Divine, Wonder Woman
Best Ongoing Series (Starts at 1:12:56)
Action Comics
Alex + Ada
All-New X-Men
Afterlife With Archie
Avengers
Batman
Daredevil
Detective Comics
East of West
Fatale
FF
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hawkeye
Invincible
Lazarus
Letter 44
Manifest Destiny
Mind Mgmt
New Avengers
Pretty Deadly
Prophet
Rachel Rising
Rocket Girl
Saga
Satellite Sam
Sex
Sex Criminals
The Sixth Gun
The Superior Spider-Man
Swamp Thing
Thor God of Thunder
Velvet
The Walking Dead
Wonder Woman
Zero
Best Book (Starts at 1:39:46)
Aama 2: The Invisible Throng – Frederik Peeters
Age of License – Lucy Knisley
The Amateurs – Conor Stechschulte
The Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business – Mark Waid, James Robinson, Werther Dell’edera, Gabriele Dell’otto
Andre the Giant: Life and Legend – Box Brown
Ant Colony – Michael DeForge
Arsene Schrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen
Basewood – Alec Longstreth
Beautiful Darkness – Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet
Beauty – Hubert, Kerascoet
Benson’s Cuckoos – Anouk Ricard
Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell – Paul Dini, Joe Quinones
Blacksad: Amarillo – Juan Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido
Bumperhead – Gilbert Hernandez
By Chance or Providence – Becky Cloonan
Celeste – INJ Culbard
Doctors – Dash Shaw
Earthling – Aisha Franz
The Gigantic Beard that was Evil – Stephen Collins
The Hartlepool Monkey – Wilfrid Lupano, Jeremie Moreau
The Hospital Suite – John Porcellino
How to Be Happy – Eleanor Davis
In a Sense (Lost and Found) – Roman Muradov
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
It Never Happened Again: Two Stories – Sam Alden
Megahex – Simon Hanselmann
The Motherless Oven – Rob Davis
New Lone Wolf and Cub 1 – Kazuo Koike, Hideki Mori
Nijigahara Holograph – Inio Asano
Oak – Max Badger
The Obscure Cities: The Leaning Girl – Benoît Peeters, François Schuiten
Operation Margarine – Katie Skelly
Opus – Satoshi Kon
Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York – Pierre Christin, Olivier Balez
Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Shadow Hero – Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew
Shamanism – Igor Baranko
Shoplifter – Michael Cho
Showa: History of Japan 1944-1953 – Shigeru Mizuki
Sing No Evil – JP Ahonen, KP Alare
Sisters – Raina Telgemeier
Snackies – Nick Sumida
Snowpiercer 1: The Escape – Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette
Soppy: A Love Story – Philippa Rice
This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir – Liz Prince
Twelve Gems – Lane Milburn
The Undertaking of Lily Chen – Danica Novgorodoff
Wrenchies – Farel Dalrymple
We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on what we selected or missed out on!
Got a question you want us to answer on the show? Send it to [email protected] or tweet it @bigplanetcomics or ask us on tumblr!
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We put together our lists of the best of 2014! We have several different categories, and everything on these lists below are the best things that came out this year.
On our podcast we discuss them all to arrive at the top of each category.
Best Writer
Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel
Best Colorist
Best Ongoing Series
Best Book
We already covered Best Artist, One-Shot/Single Issue/Short Story, Reprint, Miniseries, Trends, and New Series in Part One!
Best Writer (Starts at 1:48)
Jason Aaron – Men of Wrath, Southern Bastards, Thor
Sam Alden – Frontier, Haunter, It Never Happened Again, Wicked Chicken Queen
Brian Azzarello – Wonder Woman
Brian Michael Bendis – All-New X-Men, The United States of Murder Inc.
Box Brown – Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, New Physics, Number
Ed Brubaker – The Fade-Out, Velvet
Kurt Busiek – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw
Juan Diaz Canales – Blacksad
Emily Carroll – Frontier, Through the Woods
Farel Dalrymple – Wrenchies
Kelly Sue DeConnick – Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly
Rob Davis – The Motherless Oven
Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters – Lumberjanes
Warren Ellis – Moon Knight, Supreme Blue Rose, Trees
Matt Fraction – Hawkeye, Sex Criminals
Aisha Franz – Earthling
Kieron Gillen – Wicked & Divine
Gilbert Hernandez – Bumperhead
Jonathan Hickman – East of West, Manhattan Projects
Hubert – Beauty
Matt Kindt – Mind MGMT
Robert Kirkman – Outcast, The Walking Dead
Lucy Knisley – Age of License
Ales Kot – Zero, Secret Avengers
David Lapham – Juice Squeezers, Stray Bullets
Jake Lawrence – Teen Dog
Alec Longstreth – Basewood
Grant Morrison – Annihilator, Multiversity
Ryan North – The Midas Flesh
Bryan Lee O’Malley – Seconds
Frederick Peeters – Aama
John Porcellino – The Hospital Suite
Liz Prince – Tomboy
Rick Remender – Black Science, Captain America, Deadly Class, Low
Greg Rucka – Cyclops, Lazarus
Dash Shaw – Doctors
Dan Slott – Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Silver Surfer
Scott Snyder – Batman, American Vampire, Wake. Wytches
Charles Soule – Death of Wolverine, Letter 44, She-Hulk, Swamp Thing
Mariko Tamaki – This One Summer
Raina Telgemeier – Sisters
James Tynion IV – The Woods
Noah Van Sciver – I Don’t Hate Your Guts, Lizard Laughed
Brian K. Vaughan – The Private Eye, Saga
Sarah Vaughn – Alex + Ada
Fabien Vehlmann – Beautiful Darkness
Jen Wang – In Real Life
Joshua Williamson – Nailbiter, Birthright
G. Willow Wilson – Ms. Marvel
Gene Luen Yang – Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero
Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel (Starts at 50:05)
Adventure Time – Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline
Akissi – Marguerite Abouet, Mathieu Sapi
Amulet 6: Escape from Lucien – Kazu Kibuishi
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Rift – Gene Yang, Studio Gurihiru
Bad Machinery – John Allison
Buzz! – Ananth Panagariya, Tessa Stone
Cleopatra in Space 1: Target Practice – Mike Maihack
Costume Quest: Invasion of the Candy Snatchers – Zac Gorman
The Dumbest Idea Ever – Jimmy Gownley
The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza – James Kochalka
The Graveyard Book 1 & 2 – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell
Hilda and the Black Hound – Luke Pearson
Howtoons – Nick Dragotta, Saul Griffith, Ingrid Dragotta, Joost Bonsen
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
Juice Squeezers – David Lapham
Lumberjanes – Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Brooke Allen
Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch – Eric Orchard
Oak – Max Badger
Over the Garden Wall Special – Pat McHale, Jim Campbell
Sisters – Raina Telgemeier
Best Colorist (Starts at 1:05:58)
Jordie Bellaire – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw, Magneto, Moon Knight, Pretty Deadly, Zero
Brian Buccellato – Detective Comics
Matt Hollingsworth – Hawkeye, The Wake, Wytches
Marissa Louise – Robocop, Escape from New York
Lee Loughridge – Captain Marvel, Deadly Class, Fables, Juice Squeezers,
Frank Martin Jr. – East of West
Daniela Miwa – Shaft
FCO Plascensia – Batman
Val Staples – All-New Ghost Rider, Deadpool, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man,
Muntsa Vicente – Axis: Hobgoblin, The Private Eye, She-Hulk
Matthew Wilson – Thor, The Wicked + the Divine, Wonder Woman
Best Ongoing Series (Starts at 1:12:56)
Action Comics
Alex + Ada
All-New X-Men
Afterlife With Archie
Avengers
Batman
Daredevil
Detective Comics
East of West
Fatale
FF
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hawkeye
Invincible
Lazarus
Letter 44
Manifest Destiny
Mind Mgmt
New Avengers
Pretty Deadly
Prophet
Rachel Rising
Rocket Girl
Saga
Satellite Sam
Sex
Sex Criminals
The Sixth Gun
The Superior Spider-Man
Swamp Thing
Thor God of Thunder
Velvet
The Walking Dead
Wonder Woman
Zero
Best Book (Starts at 1:39:46)
Aama 2: The Invisible Throng – Frederik Peeters
Age of License – Lucy Knisley
The Amateurs – Conor Stechschulte
The Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business – Mark Waid, James Robinson, Werther Dell’edera, Gabriele Dell’otto
Andre the Giant: Life and Legend – Box Brown
Ant Colony – Michael DeForge
Arsene Schrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen
Basewood – Alec Longstreth
Beautiful Darkness – Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet
Beauty – Hubert, Kerascoet
Benson’s Cuckoos – Anouk Ricard
Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell – Paul Dini, Joe Quinones
Blacksad: Amarillo – Juan Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido
Bumperhead – Gilbert Hernandez
By Chance or Providence – Becky Cloonan
Celeste – INJ Culbard
Doctors – Dash Shaw
Earthling – Aisha Franz
The Gigantic Beard that was Evil – Stephen Collins
The Hartlepool Monkey – Wilfrid Lupano, Jeremie Moreau
The Hospital Suite – John Porcellino
How to Be Happy – Eleanor Davis
In a Sense (Lost and Found) – Roman Muradov
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
It Never Happened Again: Two Stories – Sam Alden
Megahex – Simon Hanselmann
The Motherless Oven – Rob Davis
New Lone Wolf and Cub 1 – Kazuo Koike, Hideki Mori
Nijigahara Holograph – Inio Asano
Oak – Max Badger
The Obscure Cities: The Leaning Girl – Benoît Peeters, François Schuiten
Operation Margarine – Katie Skelly
Opus – Satoshi Kon
Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York – Pierre Christin, Olivier Balez
Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Shadow Hero – Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew
Shamanism – Igor Baranko
Shoplifter – Michael Cho
Showa: History of Japan 1944-1953 – Shigeru Mizuki
Sing No Evil – JP Ahonen, KP Alare
Sisters – Raina Telgemeier
Snackies – Nick Sumida
Snowpiercer 1: The Escape – Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette
Soppy: A Love Story – Philippa Rice
This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir – Liz Prince
Twelve Gems – Lane Milburn
The Undertaking of Lily Chen – Danica Novgorodoff
Wrenchies – Farel Dalrymple
We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on what we selected or missed out on!
Got a question you want us to answer on the show? Send it to [email protected] or tweet it @bigplanetcomics or ask us on tumblr!