Let’s get to it, as we celebrate my 25 favorite comics of the year, ordered alphabetically because letters know no biases.Īlso: this full version is open to non-subscribers. If you think it’s a challenge coming up with new fake awards each year, you would have guessed correctly. And then, because I do what I do, I gave each of them awards that I felt best represented what made them favorites to me. With those rules in mind, I came up with my 25 favorite comics of the year. That’s it! As The Joker might say, we live in a society, and the society of SKTCHD – at a minimum! – is governed by purely arbitrary rules that make my life easier. if the first issue is 96 pages or something, it counts) to earn consideration. If it’s a single issue comic series, it has to have released three or more issues or completed its run or released the equivalent of three or more issues in terms of pages (i.e.Also trade paperbacks don’t count either if I read the title first in single issues. So reprints or omnibuses or Perfect Editions or whatever do not count. To be eligible, the comic has to have been read by me for the first time this year in a format that was its first version of that format in English, at a very minimum.

So instead, I say “favorite.” Deal with it. I can say what the “best” is, but I don’t know if that’s necessarily representative of what the actual best is.

This list isn’t the best, but my favorites.

To help me get there, I had a few key rules acting as guardrails for my decision making: It was a brutal process getting my list down to just 25 entries but I managed to get it there. It’s a celebration of the year that was in comics through the prism of the releases that stood out the most to me, and what a year! I went into my preparation for this exercise thinking it was a solid if not unspectacular year and came out of it believing it was one of the better ones in recent memory, with glory at the top and shocking depth to boot. It’s time! The main event is here, as the first half of The SKTCHD AWRDS is here, celebrating my favorite comics of 2021.

I See a Knight by Xulia Vicente