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My Favorite Graphic Novels of August 2024

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For some reason this month I decided I could read as many Manga picks as possible from Briana Lawrence’s The Essential Manga Guide, read the first 35 issues of Lucifer for the Extra Issues podcast, AND keep up with all the best new graphic novels and trades in August 2024. As always, my appetite for comics consumption is always greater than the realities of time. Nonetheless I persist, and pound-for-pound, I think this is the best monthly list published this year!

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My Favorite Graphic Novels of July 2024

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I don’t know what’s more impressive: how many good comics there are every month, or my ability to curate them. You’re right, it’s probably a tie.

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The Best Comics For Kids Age 7 and Under (New Readers)!

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Watching my son become a veracious graphic novel reader is one of the purest delights of my entire adult life. After several years of only very gently pushing Marvel superhero toys to replace or join his dinosaurs (didn’t take), offering to read him the Marvel encyclopedia instead of the Pokedex in kindergarten (wasn’t interested), and trying to get his first words to be “All Hail Doctor Doom” (that one worked, Doom be praised), turns out I just calmly needed to wait for him to learn to read and I wouldn’t be able to tear him away from comics.

My wife and I have always enjoyed reading to the kids, but in Kindergarten (somewhere in the 5 to 6 year old range) my son started blazing through books on his own and hasn’t looked back. Every week now is full of library visits filling up our basket with as many Magic Treehouse chapter books and comics that we can carry.

Below you’ll find our favorites through less than two years of his reading journey. Keep in mind, this is quite different than my own personal favorite comics. Although that list includes popular all-ages fare like Jeff Smith’s Bone, my kids haven’t been quite ready to dive into that one yet (although I did talk him into me reading some short stories from the Tall Tales collection!). So you can check out the CBH best comics of all time for assorted all ages or middle grade picks that I think sit among the best of the best, but this list is pure, unADULTurated kid-friendly comics. [Read more…] about The Best Comics For Kids Age 7 and Under (New Readers)!

My Favorite Graphic Novels of June 2024

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I honestly don’t know how these demanding editors* expect me to read every Garth Ennis comic I haven’t read before in preparation for an interview with the legendary creator, AND keep up with all the new great comics released around June 2024. Yet here I am, once again performing feats of intense comics obsession.

*There are no editors. I do this entirely to myself.

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The Best Comics of 2024 (So Far)

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Listen, I appreciate that you’re taking the time to read this intro, but every second you waste here is a second you could have spent reading one of the many great new comic books in 2024. So, again, thank you for considering that I might be able to write something here worth reading, but in the name of Jack Kirby, let’s get moving to the best comics so far this year!

For the mid-year, I’m keeping the picks to my favorite 30 completed graphic novels and trades released in 2024. This means favorites I’ve been reading entirely in single issue (Ultimate Spider-Man, The Deviant, I Heart Skullcrusher) are largely absent (but will probably be on the year-end list!). Likewise, I ruled out including any compendiums (what’s up Sex Criminals: The Cumplete Collection) or favorite reads that came out late in 2023 (sorry Mobilis and Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey!).

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