My favorite Comics of 2024
2024 is around the corner from ending, thankfully. I read lots throughout the year which entertained me, helped me from dissociating too much and helped keep me sane. This list, like last year’s is just a drop in the bucket of all the comics that I read in the year of 2024.
There were the continuing and concluding volumes of manga like that of Ai Yazawa’s Neighborhood Story that wrapped up this year and all the many comics from the amazing Short Box Comics Fair that I adored this year
These are just a few of the comics that made 2024 a whole lot brighter and bearable along the way: featuring some English language/North American debuts, some small press stand outs and several comics worth staying up in bed reading!
12/31/24 — If you’re reading this today — you’ll surely you’ll see a post without many words. Yup, I somehow lost the draft of this best of. I wanted to get thiS out before the new year and I’ll be rewriting my thoughts on each book mentioned here through the week. Best I could do! Thanks! -C
The Second Safest Mountain by Otava Heikkilä. (Quindrie Press)
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My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files Vol. 1 (Seven Seas Entertainment) by Natsumi Ito, Translation: Samuel R. Messner Lettering: Rina Mapa
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Flashpoint by Imai Arata. (Glacier Books) Translation by Ryan Holmberg, lettering by Lauren Eldon, editing by Ryan Holmberg and emuh ruh, and design by emuh ruh
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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All Manga Volume 1 (Yen Press)
Author: Sumiko Arai, Translated by: Ajani Oloye
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Devour Written by Jazmine Joyner; Illustrated by Anthony Pugh (Abram Books)
The Winter King (Second At Best Press)
A wordless graphic novella about a coyote surviving during a strange winter that I originally backed on Kickstarter A great taste of what Emmons brings to comic in a short bursts. A blessed reminder when the crowdfunding campaigns for Daystar & Trial + Error…
UMI Volume One [September 2024] [Radiator Comics]
Another crowdfunded campaign to bring a webcomic to life..
Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone by Isabella Rotman, Sage Coffey & Marnie Galloway (Silver Sprocket)
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Lucky Cap Scouts by O. Stevens (Silver Sprocket)
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Your Letter by Hyeon A Cho (Yen Press)
A NIGHT RIDE TO THE DAY by Breeze Hu (Bulgilhan Press)
When I saw the Kickstarter…
Another Kickstarter campaign comic,
King in Limbo Omnibus By Ai Tanaka (Kodansha)
Colette Decides to Die by Alto Yukimura (Shojo Beat — Viz)
Carrie McClain is a Californian native who navigates the world as writer, editor, and media scholar who firmly believes that we can and we should critique the media we consume. She once aided Cindi Mayweather in avoiding capture. See more of her on Twitter (X) and other places she can be found online.
