Favorite reads of 2015?

What were the best comics or graphic novels you read in 2015 (no matter when they were published)?

Here were my favorite reads in 2015:

Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Jon Backderf. Just hilarious.

Chris Claremont's X-Men, from its mid-1970's start to (so far) 1982.

Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse. Semi-autobiographical journey of a gay man starting to come out, set against the roiling backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement.

Maximum Minimum Wage by Bob Fingerman. Funny stories of the love & art travails of a struggling New York City cartoonist and his trash-talking buddies. I don't know how I was unaware of this artist until last year.

Hawkeye Volume 4: Rio Bravo. Matt Fraction & David Aja's Hawkeye has been my favorite mainstream/superhero work of the past few years, though this collections marks the end of Fraction's run.

Brandon Graham's two anthology/shared world projects, Island and 8House, have been good weird fun.

Invisible Ink: My Mother's Love Affair With A Famous Cartoonist. Great memoir from Zippy cartoonist Bill Griffith.

The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden. Her comedic/dramatic cancer memoir.

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud. A tour de force. Glad to see him *doing* comics again after so much theorizing.

Strangers In Paradise by Terry Moore. I read & loved the whole darn series. It will never replace Jaime Hernandez's Locas (Love & Rockets) as my favorite soap opera, but it was great.

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld. Great journalism/dramatization of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

This One Summer by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki. A great cusp-of-adolescence story, beautifully drawn.

The Olympus story arc of Miracleman by Alan Moore and John Totleben that was reprinted by Marvel earlier this year, and collected in Miracleman Book Three: Olympus. Nothing else even came close.

I ended the year reading Blankets by Craig Thompson which I enjoyed.

Hi, Happy New Year.

The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 and 2. Pop stars as New Gods in never-ending cycle of death and rebirth. But there is a mytery!

Matt Fraction's Iron Man run (Book 1 to 6). The Warren Ellis' sci-fi + movie's action. It is original and addicting.

Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four. Best run since John Byrne's.

Ghosted Vol.1 to 4. Supernatural heist crime book with lovecraftian intrigue (what?). Besides trying to classify it, try it. Could be the next cool winter movie.

Red Rocket 7 by Mike Allred. 50's sci-fy + pop culture. Could it be better?

The Fifth Beatle. The Beatles' manager story.

Multiversity. Crazy comics from the craziest writer.

Complete Maus. Nuff said.

The Underwater Welder - Jeff Lemire
Journalism - Joe Sacco
Days of Destruction Days of Revolt - Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco - great combination of graphic and text elements
Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan
Habibi - Craig Thompson - just lovely
Showa 1926-1939 - Shigeru Mizuki (and the other 3 volumes as well)
The Massive 5 - Brian Wood - great completion to the series
Locke and Key - Joe Hill - only read the first two volumes, but really like them

My top ones in 2015 were:

Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman* (my favorite of the year)
The Leaning Girl by Benoit Peters (really interesting old-fashioned sci-fi one from France)
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (humorous medieval fantasy)
Stumptown by Greg Rucka (start of good noir series)
Velvet Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker (noir with great central character)
March Book One and March Book Two by John Lewis (civil rights)
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale (Harriet Tubman)
Saga, Volume 4 and Saga, Volume 5 (sci-fi)
El Deafo by Cece Bell (young deaf girl)
The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden (breast cancer)
Displacement by Lucy Knisley (travel memoir with grandparents)
Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe (sarcastic battle maidens for hire)

Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales

These are actually all comics I read in 2015, and I have an expansive conception of "comic", but I think each deserves mention:

Emily Carroll Through The Woods
Jessica Abel Out On The Wire
Jason Lutes Berlin: City of Smoke and Berlin: City of Stones
Alexander Theroux The Great Wheadle Tragedy

If threatened with literary violence, I would choose the Carroll as my favourite.

>9 elenchus: I hadn't heard of Emily Carroll, but that book sounds really interesting (based on the LT reviews). I will check it out!

>9 elenchus:

I am happy to see someone mentioning Jason Lutes. (And he needs to get around and finish the trilogy!)

>11 AnnieMod:

I thought it was just a few installments short, in the serial version. Do you know?

I will be disheartened if he doesn't complete it. Like Eric Shanower's retelling of the Trojan War! It was going so well.

>12 elenchus:

3 more issues to complete the planned 22 :) But then the 19 so far took 20 years so maybe some time ~2020, we will see the end of it.

Last year is actually when I started getting into comics, and I read some fantastic ones. (P.S. hello, I'm also new to the group!) These were my favorites:

Rat Queens Vol. 1 and 2, by Kurtis J. Wiebe
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Bandette by Paul Tobin
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 and 2, by Kieron Gillen
Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Wonder Woman Vol. 1-4 by Brian Azzarello

Welcome, >14 mirikayla:! That's a fun bunch of books.

>14 mirikayla:

Welcome! Looks like you've got a few classic comics titles in your collection (The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, V for Vendetta, etc.). Have you got around to those yet?

>14 mirikayla: Great list!