David Auerbach’s Books of the Year 2022: Comics and Art
Waggish 2023-01-07
Installment two of my books of the year, with most nonfiction still to come. It seemed a very lean year for comics overall. The big event is the long-delayed translation of the first half of Lewis Trondheim’s Ralph Azham, his 1200-page treatment of power, politics, religion, and family. Trondheim’s ability to improvise a better story than most people can plan out remains exceptional. There is also the final book of Hubert’s uncompleted The Ogre Gods, putting a point on his loss through suicide.
Ralph Azham #1: Black Are The Stars Trondheim, Lewis (Author) Super Genius
Ralph Azham #2: The Land of the Blue Demons Trondheim, Lewis (Author) Papercutz
First Born: The Ogre Gods Book Four (Ogre Gods, 4) Hubert (Author), Gatignol, Bertrand (Artist) Magnetic Press
La Synagogue Sfar Joann (Author), Sfar Joann (Illustrator) DARGAUD
The Court Charade Flore, Vesco (Author), Kerascoët (Author), Kerascoët (Illustrator) Europe Comics
Dungeon: Early Years, vol. 3: Wihout a Sound (3) Gaultier, Christophe (Author), Sfar, Joann (Author), Trondheim, Lewis (Author), Oiry, Stephane (Author) NBM Publishing
Dungeon: Twilight vols. 1-2: Cemetery of the Dragon Sfar, Joann (Author), Trondheim, Lewis (Author), Kerascoet, [none] (Illustrator) NBM Publishing
Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan (Book 1) Shiga, Jason (Author) Harry N. Abrams
Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Box Set: Vols. 7 & 8: Pockets Full of Pie & Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty (Walt Kelly's Pogo) Kelly, Walt (Author), Aragonés, Sergio (Foreword), Caswell, Lucy Shelton (Foreword) Fantagraphics
The Projector and Elephant Vaughn-James, Martin (Author), Seth (Editor), Heer, Jeet (Introduction), Seth (Designer) New York Review Comics
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson Johnson, Charles (Author) New York Review Comics
The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924 Herriman, George (Author) Fantagraphics
YOKAI Yumoto, Koichi (Author) PIE International
George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye Rewald, Sabine (Author), Buruma, Ian (Contributor) Metropolitan Museum of Art
Käthe Kollwitz: A Survey of Her Work 1867 - 1945 Fischer, Hannelore (Editor) Hirmer Publishers
Austrian and German Masterworks: Twentieth Anniversary of Neue Galerie New York Price, Renée (Editor), Lauder, Ronald S. (Preface) Prestel
Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston (New York Review Books Classics) Feld, Ross (Author) NYRB Classics