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Its been a good year for comics and its not even May yet.
That includes collections of individual comics and single-story graphic novels/memoirs.
Here they are, in no particular order.
Why Art?by Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)We hardly deserve Eleanor Davis.
The comics, themselves, are deceptively simple: the lines are few and the anatomy cartoony and basic.
Highly recommended for any youngsters out there with sequential-art addictions.
Tom KingsBatmanis an obvious exception.
Aliens: Dead Orbitby James Stokoe (Dark Horse)If only Ridley Scott would read more comics.
Visually, Stokoe is the ideal inheritor of the templates set for the franchise by Moebius and H.R.
Giger, crafting a story that transcends verbal language and ascends to the heights of inconceivable terror.
The surreal quasi-cameos from famous comics characters are the unsettling icing on this deliciously depressing cake.
