DAVID HINE:
Writer: Storm Dogs, The Bulletproof Coffin
Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters
Tough choice. It was a good year. These five comics are each unique and represent creators at the peak of their creativity.
The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon. Published by SelfMadeHero.
After years away from comics, working in design and animation, Glyn Dillon returns to comics with the most unexpected and stunningly brilliant book of the year.
Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters. Published by SelfMadeHero
Following up on ‘Blue Pills’ and ‘Sandcastle’ this is, to my mind, his most impressive book yet. Wonderfully surreal and troubling.
Krishna by Abhishek Singh. Published by Image Comics
The most beautifully illustrated graphic novel I’ve seen in a long time. Came out of nowhere and blew me away.
The Hive by Charles Burns. Published by Pantheon Books.
The long-awaited sequel to ‘X-ed Out’. Every panel demands to be perused and pondered over. Burns is always an inspiration.
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Published by Image Comics
The only book on the list that isn’t the work of a single auteur. But it reads as if it is.
KEN GARING
Writer/Artist: Planetoid
The Conqueror Worm, adapted by Richard Corben from Edgar Allan Poe
SAM HUMPHRIES
Writer: Ultimate Comics Ultimates, Higher Earth, Uncanny X-Force
