Here’s part four of our week-long “Best of Boing Boing” holiday gift guide: basically, it’s a list of the bestselling items from among the stuff we reviewed this year, reflecting your favorite items from among our picks. Today’s list is comics, graphic novels, funnybooks and the like.
Don’t miss the previous installments: kids’ stuff, fiction and gadgets!
Tomorrow’s nonfiction day, and Monday’ll finish up the series with DVDs and CDs.
Laika
(Nick Abadzis)
Graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog
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The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories
(Nicholas Gurewitch)
Hilarious, surreal webcomic
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Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Brian Selznik)
Award-winning steampunk graphic novel for kids
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Good as Lily
(Derek Kirk Kim)
Ass-kicking girl-positive graphic novel for young readers
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The Plain Janes
(Cecil Castellucci, Jim Rugg)
Funny, spirited little story about a gang of girls named Jane at a strait-laced high-school, rejected by the mainstream, and their art adventures.
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100 Days Of Monsters
(Stefan G. Bucher)
Book showcases blob-to-monster art
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Army @ Love Vol. 1: The Hot Zone Club
(Rick Veitch)
Romance/war comic deals out the offensive yuks
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Three Shadows
(Cyril Pedrosa)
Haunting and dreamlike graphic novel of love, bravery and sacrifice
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St. Trinian’s: The Entire Appalling Business
(Ronald Searle)
Ronald Searle’s original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian’s comics
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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need
(Daniel H. Pink)
Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form
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Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now
(Cory Doctorow)
A six-edition series of comics adapted from my short stories by an incredibly talented crew of writers, artists, inkers and letterers
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Too Cool To Be Forgotten
(Alex Robinson)
Wish fulfillment graphic novel becomes something lovelier by far
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A People’s History of American Empire
(Howard Zinn)
Fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United States
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TEKKONKINKREET: Black & White
(Taiyo Matsumoto)
Absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape
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The Mad War on Bush
(The Usual Gang of Idiots)
A truly superlative collection of parodical and satirical material from eight years’ worth of Mad lampoon
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Tekkon Kinkreet
(Lauren McLaughlin)
Absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape
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MAD About Star Wars
(Jonathan Bresman)
More than your average MAD anthology
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Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
(Emmanuel Guibert)
Extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
(Jonathan Hennessey)
US Constitution in graphic novel form
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Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
(Chip Kidd)
The lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain
(Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins)
The “Understanding Comics” of copyright, in a new edition
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Al Jaffee’s Tall Tales
(Al Jaffee)
Skinny comics with snappy humor
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