What a year. 202 was a hard year for everyone, but it was particularly difficult for the comics industry. In early March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Diamond Distributors decided to shut down their services, causing a 6-month+ delay in regular comics from all publishers. This delay led to lost jobs, incomplete series', and destroyed futures, to be frank, for what was ultimately a pointless shutdown.
In any case, creators of 2020 were still able to pull some things off, and put out truly amazing works of art and writing in the year. I've picked out my favorite parts of the whole genre, from writers to artists to series' and everything in between. Without further ado, click the links below to jump to a specific section, or Continue Reading to read it all! Reliable Writers Variant Artists Interiors Artists Personal Radar Breakouts Double-Time: Writing AND Drawing Needs Mentioning Best Comic Series' of 2020
Reliable Writers
Comic Book Writers who I could pick out of a lineup due to their continued quality, and their work is reliably good among anthologies, similar comics of the same style, etc.
Variant Artists
This portion of my Best in Comics 2020 list is taken up by four artists--two male and two female--who almost solely do covers for comics, not interiors. They're artists who's careers I follow, prints or virgin variants I have purchased, and consider to be artists that also have careers outside of strictly comic-book properties or communities. I would probably say these are my favorite variants artists to collect, and for the women on the list, I'm known at my LCS for specifically requesting their covers, even on series' I don't necessarily collect.
Interior Artists
Artists who I continued to look forward to on comic interiors, all year. They may not have been the most seen or wide-spread interior artists of 2020, but their unparalleled quality and efforts in each issue they do put out keeps them consistently as my favorite artists to open an issue and discover handling the interiors.
Personal Radar Breakouts:
This list is of primarily variant artists who I noticed and/or started following in 2020. The list would appear to be almost all male, but also almost every member of the list is queer identifying, in some manner or another. This isn't in any particular order, whatsoever!
Double-Trouble: Writing AND Drawing
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Series
Series' that I deeply enjoyed every issue of, and looked forward to every issue of--no exclusions whatsoever. Aside from two, which continue to be quite complex to explain, I've written reviews about all the series' mentioned below aside from two, so I'll link those reviews as examples of the series instead of repeating myself! This final list IS in order of preference.
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