The lines separating various comics niches have gotten fuzzier every year, as genre comics become more literary, literary comics incorporate more reportage and autobiography, and the highest-profile projects of any given season include the archiving and annotating of material that used to disappear into flea markets and quarter boxes. So the artier side of The A.V. Club’s 2012 best-comics list will be reducing to three the tangle of categories from years past: one category for fiction (original graphic novels, collections of formerly serialized material, short-story anthologies, and substantial chapters of ongoing stories), one for non-fiction (memoirs, histories, travelogues, journalism, and criticism), and one for archival collections (focusing on archival series that launched this year, rather than such essential ongoing series as Little Orphan Annie, Pogo, Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, and The Carl Barks Library).
Top 10 Fiction
1. Chris Ware, Building Stories (Pantheon)Packaged in ...
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