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As is our annual tradition, we invited a number of our friends who are also cartoonists, comics publishers and editors to tell us what their favorite comics of 2013 were. We'll be publishing them all over the next few weeks. J.T. Dockery came out with Despair Vol.1 this year. Visit his website . This list is by no means operating under the pretense of being a definitive; it represents some of the things I've purchased, traded for with my own books with the creator, or been lucky enough to have had placed in my hand over the course of the year previous in my role as person who spends more time drawing my own comics than cultivating adept criticism and patronage of what I'd like to think of as my peers. I am avoiding anthologies for no other reason than that would be another list entirely, and I have to stop somewhere, so keeping it to works by individual creators is the path I have chosen, as even omitting anthologies it'd still be easy enough to make this list w...

This year, we asked a number of our friends who are also cartoonists and comics publishers and editors what their favorite comics of 2011 were. Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting those lists. J.T. Dockery is the cartoonist who created the amazing In Tongues Illustrated. The Wolf by Tom Neely Probably the most inventive book of the year, experimental and also a lesson in master craftsmanship (Neely manages to combine mapping unexplored territory with a gift for classic mark-making). It's difficult to express how uniquely good, how profound, it is. A natural if not quite expected evolution from his previous major work, The Blot , but a progression that makes more sense if one factors in all of Tom's minis that fill the gap.  The Wolf will probably end up on my best of list for books of the decade, not just this past year. Too Dark Too See by Julia Gfrorer I became a big fan of Gfrorer's previous book, Flesh and Bone from Sparkplug Comics, after a few read...