Here we recognize our eight favorites.
We love this one for its imaginative historical sketchings, and its melancholy undertones.
Chaboute’s internationally best-selling French novel uses engrossing black-and-white illustrations for a masterful, darkly funny meditation on loneliness.

Liveright; Macmillan; First Second; Gallery 13; Drawn and Quarterly; Penguin Random House
Bad Friends, by Ancco
Stark, devastating, and intimate in equal measure.
Small executes his arc through raw, detailed facial expressions.
It’s a sweeping queer romance told in Walden’s signature style.

Gallery 13

Simon & Schuster

Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quarterly

Liveright

First Second

Penguin Random House

Macmillan