If it’s November, it must be time for the best-of-the-year lists to begin, right? I’m convinced that Best-of Season eventually will start sometime around May.
Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly lead the charge, each with fairly diverse lists.
Amazon ranks its selections, and divides them into Editors’ Picks and Customer Favorites, with Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1 (Dark Horse) topping the former, and Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Amulet Books) leading the latter.
The unranked Publishers Weekly list includes Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s Aya of Yop City (Drawn & Quarterly), the Sammy Harkham-edited Kramers Ergot 7 (Buenaventura Press) and Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk (Viz Media).
The full lists can be seen at the links.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I hope Dick Hyacinth is paying attention. We want our Meta-List on time and exhaustively researched.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I think the reason “end of year list” season keeps creeping up sooner and sooner is because the holiday shopping season keeps creeping up sooner and sooner. I can remember being a kid and not seeing Christmas stuff out at Target until the day after Thanksgiving, but now they start sneaking it out when they put the Halloween candy out.
So I guess it makes sense that a retailer like Amazon would want to help consumers figure out what to buy the comic fans in their lives sooner rather than later.