Publisher's Weekly Best Comics of 2005

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Sales of comics and graphic novels in 2005 continued to show strong growth across all comics categories, led once again by the surging popularity of manga. Superhero action comics, driven by movies like Sin City and Fantastic Four, and even art comics, often reviewed by major mainstream publications, all showed sales growth. The year also marked the launch of Tokyopop’s ambitious original English language manga program; and the news that Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem and other prominent prose authors are enthusiastically signing on to write their own graphic novels. 2005 was a very good year indeed for book format comics.

  1. 1.
    Epileptic
    by DAVID B.

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  2. 2.
    Ex Machina Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days
    by Brian K. Vaughan

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  3. 3.
    The Rabbi's Cat
    by Joann Sfar

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  4. 4.
    Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
    by Bryan Lee O'Malley

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  6. 6.
    We3
    by Grant Morrison

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  7. 7.
    Black Hole
    by Charles Burns

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  8. 8.
    King (The Complete Edition)
    by Ho Che Anderson

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  9. 9.
    MBQ Volume 1
    by Felipe Smith

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  10. 11.
    Gemma Bovery
    by Posy Simmonds

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  11. 12.
    Teenagers from Mars
    by Rick Spears

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  12. 13.
    Why Are You Doing This?
    by Jason

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  13. 14.
    YOTSUBA&! Volume 1 (Yotsubato (Graphic Novels))
    by Azuma Kiyohiko

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  14. 15.
    Walt and Skeezix: Book One
    by Frank King

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  15. 16.
    Salamander Dream
    by Hope Larson

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  16. 17.
    Tricked
    by Alex Robinson

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  17. 18.
    Night Fisher
    by R. Kikuo Johnson

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  18. 19.
    Dramacon Volume 1
    by Svetlana Chmakova

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  19. 20.
    Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted
    by Joss Whedon

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  20. 21.
    Street Angel
    by Jim Rugg

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Created by Chuck on Mar 13, 2006.
 

Comments

The 2006 edition can be found.. — 2 years ago

here

Great selections!

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/24737

AND here is the new list for best of 2007

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/44529