Top 10 Comics of 5769
For those not in the know, Heeb Magazine is the cleverly titled magazine for mostly young people (and me) of Jewish, and generally Ashkenazi, descent. It’s clever, relevant, and not terribly religious. They regularly cover the comics scene; I know of at least one comics shop that carries the magazine: Comix Revolution in Evanston Illinois.
For the past several years, our friends at Heeb have been ranking their favorite
graphic novels on an annual basis – defining “annual” by the Hebrew calendar.
Ergo, here’s their Top 10 list for the year 5769. More info here at the Heeb site.
1. The Complete Essex County by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf
Comix)
2. Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman
(Fantagraphics)
3. Asterios Polyp by Dave Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
4. The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames & Dean Haspiel
(Vertigo/DC)
5. Little Nothings Volume 2 by Lewis Trondheim (NBM
Publishing)
6. A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn &
Quarterly)
7. Brat Pack by Rick Veitch (King Hell Press)
8. The Beats by Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle & Ed Piskor
(Hill & Wang)
9. Fut Miso by Michel Fiffe (ACT-I-VATE.com)
10. Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak (Drawn &
Quarterly)
Hmmm… Do you think we should tell them that John Gaunt is
Jewish?
Funny, John Gaunt doesn't LOOK Jewish…
Yeah, but then again, YOU do, and you're not…
Gaunt does from the waist down.
Hi there, I actually the HEEB that made that HEEB list… John Gaunt is Jewish? i've been a Grimjack fan since it was a backup in Starslayer…
As you can see from The Manx Cat — serialized here at ComicMix (it's still here, too) and now being published as a six-part miniseries by our friends at IDW — religion can be a pretty complicated concept in Cynosure. Not that it isn't here on Earth, of course.But if John and Tim are up for it, maybe we'll do a flashback to Gaunt's bar mitzvah some day. Then again, in Cynosure how do you know when you've turned 13?
nice somehow a key word got left out, that i wrote the HEEB list! ha, would love to see that bar mitzvah flashback!
In Cynosure, how do you know when you've stopped turning thirteen again and again and again?