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The Best Graphic Novels of 2020 By Ed Park and Hillary Chute Dec. 9, 2020 As the assorted pressures of this year weighed down on your Graphic Content columnists, we periodically sought escape in our reading material — but many of our favorite comics titles for 2020 tackled serious matters head on: racism, police violence, the refugee crisis, colonialism, mental illness. There’s some humor to be found in the selections below, which are far-flung in time and space. But what’s most remarkable, in this excruciating year, is how these books — and the medium itself — seem capable of illum...

Taken from Breakwater by Katriona Chapman AS an addendum to Graphic Content's choice of the best graphic novels of 2020, we asked a few comics professionals to name their favourites of the year. Edward Ross published his graphic history of gaming, Gameish, his follow-up to Filmish, this year. His own choice of graphic novel of the year is set in an old Brighton cinema: Breakwater, Katriona Chapman, Avery Hill, £12.99 I've not been affected by a graphic novel like this for a while. Breakwater follows Chris, a cinema usher, who befriends Dan, a charming new member of staff. Stunningly illust...

More than 30 people without symptoms tested positive for coronavirus in Greenwich yesterday, as the borough opens two additional sites to cope with demand. The two new sites will operate out of the Greenwich and Avery Hill campuses of Greenwich University, offering rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms, with test results available within 30 minutes. Council leader Danny Thorpe confirmed that 532 people were tested in the borough yesterday, with 31 people testing positive despite being asymptomatic. Cllr Danny Thorpe said: "In the run-up to Christmas, there has been a ...

The best of this year's graphic novels, including The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (main image), Matthew Dooley's Flake, above right, and Derf Backderf's Kent State Kent State, Derf Backderf, Abrams Comics, £17.99 Derf Backderf’s account of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970 is a work that balances anger and sadness, while reminding us of the cold terror of American soldiers opening fire on innocent students. At the end of a presidency that has ramped up political division and fuelled anger, it’s sobering to be reminded where this can lead to. Backderf’s potent, cl...

‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff | Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics. In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 graphic nonfiction work My Friend Dahmer, reconstructs the lives and last days of the student activist...