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TCJ's Best of 2005: #-F

April 14, 2006 by David Welsh

100%, DC/Vertigo (TU, KW – 2)
100 Bullets, DC/Vertigo (DS)
676 Apparitions of Killoffer (ED, PG, CM – 3)
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (JDC)
Achewood, self-published (DD, SG – 2)
Acme Novelty Library, Pantheon (DD, ED, RK, AS, TU – 5)
Acme Novelty Library #16, self-published (DD, JH, RK, TU, RV – 5)
All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder (TU)
All-Star Superman, DC (SG, TU, RV – 3)
Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (RCH)
Angry Youth Comix Vol. 2 #8, Fantagraphics (NB)
Anywhere But Here, Fantagraphics (DD, KV – 2)
Attitude: Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, NBM (DD)
Avignon: Gods and Demons (JDC)
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Vol. 1, Tokyopop (CR)
Best Political Cartoons of the year, 2006 Edition (RCH)
Berlin (RK)
Big Questions, Drawn & Quarterly (DD)
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel, Random House (RV)
BJ and Da Dogs, Picture Box (SH)
Black Hole, Pantheon (DD, ED, SH, JH, RK, CM, CR, CT, TU, RV, KW – 11)
Black Panther #1-7, Marvel (RCH)
Blue Monday #4: Painted Moon, Oni Press (KV)
Blue Spring, Viz (DD, RV – 2)
Bolland Strips! Knockabout (PG)
Brother, Drama Queen (PG)
BRPD: The Black Flame, Dark Horse (SH, TU – 2)
Buddha, Vertical (ED, CM, DS, RV – 4)
Buja’s Diary, NBM (RV)
Burying Sandwiches, self-published (CM)
Capote in Kansas, Oni Press (JDC, RCH – 2)
Chip Kidd: Book One, Rizzoli (JH)
Clamp: North Side, Tokyopop (NB)
Comic Book Encyclopedia (RCH)
Comic Book Holocaust, self-published (NB)
The Comics Journal #269 – The Shoujo Manga Issue, Fantagraphics (RK)
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (ED, RK, RV – 3)
The Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952, Fantagraphics (CM, RV, KW – 3)
The Complete Peanuts (ED, RK, DS, KW – 4)
The Complete Peanuts 1955-56, Fantagraphics (RV)
The Complete Peanuts Vols. 3-4, Fantagraphics (CM)
Complete Crumb Comics, Fantagraphics (DD)
Concrete: The Human Dilemma (RCH)
Copper, self-published (SG)
Countdown to Infinite Crisis, DC (TC, CM – 2)
Cromartie High School, ADV (ED, CM, RV – 3)
Dance of the Gods (RCH)
Daredevil: Decalogue, Marvel (TU)
The Dark Horse Book of the Dead (ED)
The Darkness, Kingly Books (PG)
Death Note, Viz (PG)
Demo, AiT/PlanetLar (RV)
Desolation Jones, DC (RV)
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, La Mano (JH, RK, TU – 3)
Dicebox, self-published (SG)
Doc Frankenstein, Burlyman Entertainment (RV)
Dogs and Water, Drawn and Quarterly (TU)
Dr. Slump, Viz (CM)
L’Ecole Emportée, Glénat (PG)
Embroideries, Pantheon (CM)
Epileptic, Pantheon (DD, ED, RK, CM, CR, AS, CT, TU, KW – 9)
Ex Machina, DC/Vertigo (DS, KW – 2)
Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, DC/Vertigo (CR)
The Eye of Dart-an-Gor (RCH)
Fell (RCH)
Flaming Carrot, Image (RV)
Flight 2, Image (SG)
Fluffy, Cabnon Press (PG)
Foul Play (ED)
Free Radicals, self-published (NB)
Frankenstein Now and Forever, Typocrat (AS
The Freebooters, Fantagraphics (DS)
From Eroica with Love, DC/CMX (SG)
Fruits Basket, Tokyopop (AS)
Funny Ladies (RCH)

Here’s the key of contributors: Noah Berlatsky = NB; Johanna Draper Carlson = JDC; Tom Crippen = TC; Dirk Deppey = DD; Evan Dorkin = ED; Shaenon Garrity = SG; Paul Gravett = PG; Sammy Harkham = SH; R.C. Harvey = RCH; Jeet Heer = JH; Rich Kreiner = RK; Chris Mautner = CM; Calvin Reid = CR; Diana Schutz = DS; Adam Stephanides = AS; Craig Thompson = CT; Tom Underhill = TU; Kristy Valenti = KV; Rob Vollmar = RV; Kent Worchester = KW.

(Corrected, because spell check isn’t my friend, and I wasn’t nearly smart enough to catch that it was turning “Jeet” into “Janet.”)

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