Creators Pick The Best Comics of 2012

 

DAVID HINE:

Writer: Storm Dogs, The Bulletproof Coffin

 

Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters

 

Tough choice. It was a good year. These five comics are each unique and represent creators at the peak of their creativity.

The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon. Published by SelfMadeHero.

After years away from comics, working in design and animation, Glyn Dillon returns to comics with the most unexpected and stunningly brilliant book of the year.

Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters. Published by SelfMadeHero

Following up on ‘Blue Pills’ and ‘Sandcastle’ this is, to my mind, his most impressive book yet. Wonderfully surreal and troubling.

Krishna by Abhishek Singh. Published by Image Comics

The most beautifully illustrated graphic novel I’ve seen in a long time. Came out of nowhere and blew me away.

The Hive by Charles Burns. Published by Pantheon Books.

The long-awaited sequel to ‘X-ed Out’. Every panel demands to be perused and pondered over. Burns is always an inspiration.

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Published by Image Comics

The only book on the list that isn’t the work of a single auteur. But it reads as if it is.

 

KEN GARING

Writer/Artist: Planetoid

The Conqueror Worm, adapted by Richard Corben from Edgar Allan Poe

 

SAM HUMPHRIES

Writer: Ultimate Comics Ultimates, Higher Earth, Uncanny X-Force

 


 

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