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The Best Graphic Novels of 2013

by Village Voice

December 11, 2013

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Perverse heroines and supreme sacrifices in the year’s best comics.

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From The Archives

BLACK LIKE WHO? Love and the Enemy

“If there’s any legacy of ’60s Black Nationalism I find ennobling and empowering, it’s that movement’s Pan-Afrikanist embrace of Black folk everywhere as brother and sister.”

by Greg Tate

June 19, 2020
Pride

Sylvester: Staying Alive

“For almost 20 years, Sylvester has been an icon of San Francisco nightlife: outrageous, bold, proud. Today, he is a symbol of a totally different San Francisco — a gay man struggling to stay alive”

by Barry Walters

June 22, 2020
The Culture

The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Pt. 1

“For the first five years that I was writing for The New Yorker,” says a longtime contributor, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”

by James Ledbetter

June 10, 2020
Equality

Juneteenth, the Day the Last Ones Heard

“The day that federal troops rode into Galveston with orders to release those kept as slaves has been celebrated, in Texas and beyond, for 127 years, as Emancipation Day, as Jubilation Day, as Juneteenth.”

by Lisa Jones

June 18, 2020
Art

Andy Warhol’s Pop Riot

“The sophisticated audience that had turned out to put down the art that was not on display provided a chilling touch of surrealism worthy of Buñuel or Fellini”

by David Bourdon

June 16, 2020
From The Archives

Václav Havel: The New King of Absurdistan

“It is a party, and Václav is The Good King: relaxed, smothered in kisses and well-wishes ... the only president in living history who, in one breath, can quote John Lennon, Samuel Beckett, and Immanuel Kant”

by Vít Horejs & Bonnie Stein

June 7, 2020

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1/11

EC Comics Artist’s Edition, Volume 1

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Fantagraphics Books

2/11

The Adventures of Jodelle

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DC Comics

3/11

Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach Deluxe Edition

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Fantagraphics Books

4/11

Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend

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Sequart

5/11

Curing the Postmodern Blues

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Bantam

6/11

Law of the Desert Born

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SelfMadeHero

7/11

Sandcastle

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Dark Horse

8/11

Sacrifice

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Black Mask

9/11

Occupy Comics

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Vanguard

10/11

The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage

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First Second

11/11

Battling Boy

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