NPR’s 100 Best Comics And Graphic Novels list is out! From their announcement:
[A] few months ago, we asked you to tell us all about your favorite comics and graphic novels. We assembled an amazing team of critics and creators to help winnow down more than 7,000 nominations to this final list of 100 great comics for all ages and tastes, from early readers to adults-only.
This isn’t meant as a comprehensive list of the “best” or “most important” or “most influential” comics, of course. It’s a lot more personal and idiosyncratic than that, because we asked folks to name the comics they loved.
Here’s what they had to say about their Milkfed picks:
by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine De Landro
The women in prison movie to end all women in prison movies. Well, okay, it’s a comic book, but you know what I mean. Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro take a campy ’70s trope and run with it, all the way to outer space, creating a misogynist dystopia where “noncompliant” women are penned up on a brutal prison planet. But rebellion is brewing underneath those bland prison-orange overalls. Bitch Planet mixes solid world building, action and emotional hooks with an unapologetic wallop of feminist philosophy. If you’ve been seeing women with “NC” tattoos recently, this is why.
by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Matt Fraction makes another appearance on our list [the other is HAWKEYE] with the delightful and VERY not-safe-for-work Sex Criminals. Suzie and Jon seem like a regular couple – she is an earnest librarian, he is an overgrown man-child who hates his job. But both of them have a secret power: They can stop time when they orgasm and walk around alone in a frozen world. So naturally, they decide to use that power to go on a crime spree — and it’s all fun and games until the Sex Police show up.
Other selections include LOVE AND ROCKETS by Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez (because duh), Kate Beaton’s funny-as-hell HARK! A VAGRANT, and the fabulous DAYTRIPPER by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon.
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