Best of 2014 Podcast – Part Two

Best of 2014 Podcast - Part Two!

We put together our lists of the best of 2014! We have several different categories, and everything on these lists below are the best things that came out this year.

On our podcast we discuss them all to arrive at the top of each category.

Best Writer

Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel

Best Colorist

Best Ongoing Series

Best Book

We put together our lists of the best of 2014! We have several different categories, and everything on these lists below are the best things that came out this year.

On our podcast we discuss them all to arrive at the top of each category.

Best Writer

Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel

Best Colorist

Best Ongoing Series

Best Book

We already covered Best Artist, One-Shot/Single Issue/Short Story, Reprint, Miniseries, Trends, and New Series in Part One!

Best Writer (Starts at 1:48)

Jason Aaron – Men of Wrath, Southern Bastards, Thor

Sam Alden – Frontier, Haunter, It Never Happened Again, Wicked Chicken Queen

Brian Azzarello – Wonder Woman

Brian Michael Bendis – All-New X-Men, The United States of Murder Inc.

Box Brown – Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, New Physics, Number

Ed Brubaker – The Fade-Out, Velvet

Kurt Busiek – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw

Juan Diaz Canales – Blacksad

Emily Carroll – Frontier, Through the Woods

Farel Dalrymple – Wrenchies

Kelly Sue DeConnick – Bitch Planet, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly

Rob Davis – The Motherless Oven

Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters – Lumberjanes

Warren Ellis – Moon Knight, Supreme Blue Rose, Trees

Matt Fraction – Hawkeye, Sex Criminals

Aisha Franz – Earthling

Kieron Gillen – Wicked & Divine

Gilbert Hernandez – Bumperhead

Jonathan Hickman – East of West, Manhattan Projects

Hubert – Beauty

Matt Kindt – Mind MGMT

Robert Kirkman – Outcast, The Walking Dead

Lucy Knisley – Age of License

Ales Kot – Zero, Secret Avengers

David Lapham – Juice Squeezers, Stray Bullets

Jake Lawrence – Teen Dog

Alec Longstreth – Basewood

Grant Morrison – Annihilator, Multiversity

Ryan North – The Midas Flesh

Bryan Lee O’Malley – Seconds

Frederick Peeters – Aama

John Porcellino – The Hospital Suite

Liz Prince – Tomboy

Rick Remender – Black Science, Captain America, Deadly Class, Low

Greg Rucka – Cyclops, Lazarus

Dash Shaw – Doctors

Dan Slott – Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Silver Surfer

Scott Snyder – Batman, American Vampire, Wake. Wytches

Charles Soule – Death of Wolverine, Letter 44, She-Hulk, Swamp Thing

Mariko Tamaki – This One Summer

Raina Telgemeier – Sisters

James Tynion IV – The Woods

Noah Van Sciver – I Don’t Hate Your Guts, Lizard Laughed

Brian K. Vaughan – The Private Eye, Saga

Sarah Vaughn – Alex + Ada

Fabien Vehlmann – Beautiful Darkness

Jen Wang – In Real Life

Joshua Williamson – Nailbiter, Birthright

G. Willow Wilson – Ms. Marvel

Gene Luen Yang – Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero

Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel (Starts at 50:05)

Adventure Time – Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline

Akissi – Marguerite Abouet, Mathieu Sapi

Amulet 6: Escape from Lucien – Kazu Kibuishi

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Rift – Gene Yang, Studio Gurihiru

Bad Machinery – John Allison

Buzz! – Ananth Panagariya, Tessa Stone

Cleopatra in Space 1: Target Practice – Mike Maihack

Costume Quest: Invasion of the Candy Snatchers – Zac Gorman

The Dumbest Idea Ever – Jimmy Gownley

The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza – James Kochalka

The Graveyard Book 1 & 2 – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell

Hilda and the Black Hound – Luke Pearson

Howtoons – Nick Dragotta, Saul Griffith, Ingrid Dragotta, Joost Bonsen

In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

Juice Squeezers – David Lapham

Lumberjanes – Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Brooke Allen

Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch – Eric Orchard

Oak – Max Badger

Over the Garden Wall Special – Pat McHale, Jim Campbell

Sisters – Raina Telgemeier

Best Colorist (Starts at 1:05:58)

Jordie Bellaire – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw, Magneto, Moon Knight, Pretty Deadly, Zero

Brian Buccellato – Detective Comics

Matt Hollingsworth – Hawkeye, The Wake, Wytches

Marissa Louise – Robocop, Escape from New York

Lee Loughridge – Captain Marvel, Deadly Class, Fables, Juice Squeezers,

Frank Martin Jr. – East of West

Daniela Miwa – Shaft

FCO Plascensia – Batman

Val Staples – All-New Ghost Rider, Deadpool, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man,

Muntsa Vicente – Axis: Hobgoblin, The Private Eye, She-Hulk

Matthew Wilson – Thor, The Wicked + the Divine, Wonder Woman

Best Ongoing Series (Starts at 1:12:56)

Action Comics

Alex + Ada

All-New X-Men

Afterlife With Archie

Avengers

Batman

Daredevil

Detective Comics

East of West

Fatale

FF

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hawkeye

Invincible

Lazarus

Letter 44

Manifest Destiny

Mind Mgmt

New Avengers

Pretty Deadly

Prophet

Rachel Rising

Rocket Girl

Saga

Satellite Sam

Sex

Sex Criminals

The Sixth Gun

The Superior Spider-Man

Swamp Thing

Thor God of Thunder

Velvet

The Walking Dead

Wonder Woman

Zero

Best Book (Starts at 1:39:46)

Aama 2: The Invisible Throng – Frederik Peeters

Age of License – Lucy Knisley

The Amateurs – Conor Stechschulte

The Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business – Mark Waid, James Robinson, Werther Dell’edera, Gabriele Dell’otto

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend – Box Brown

Ant Colony – Michael DeForge

Arsene Schrauwen – Olivier Schrauwen

Basewood – Alec Longstreth

Beautiful Darkness – Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet

Beauty – Hubert, Kerascoet

Benson’s Cuckoos – Anouk Ricard

Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell – Paul Dini, Joe Quinones

Blacksad: Amarillo – Juan Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido

Bumperhead – Gilbert Hernandez

By Chance or Providence – Becky Cloonan

Celeste – INJ Culbard

Doctors – Dash Shaw

Earthling – Aisha Franz

The Gigantic Beard that was Evil – Stephen Collins

The Hartlepool Monkey – Wilfrid Lupano, Jeremie Moreau

The Hospital Suite – John Porcellino

How to Be Happy – Eleanor Davis

In a Sense (Lost and Found) – Roman Muradov

In Real Life – Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

It Never Happened Again: Two Stories – Sam Alden

Megahex – Simon Hanselmann

The Motherless Oven – Rob Davis

New Lone Wolf and Cub 1 – Kazuo Koike, Hideki Mori

Nijigahara Holograph – Inio Asano

Oak – Max Badger

The Obscure Cities: The Leaning Girl – Benoît Peeters, François Schuiten

Operation Margarine – Katie Skelly

Opus – Satoshi Kon

Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York – Pierre Christin, Olivier Balez

Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley

The Shadow Hero – Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew

Shamanism – Igor Baranko

Shoplifter – Michael Cho

Showa: History of Japan 1944-1953 – Shigeru Mizuki

Sing No Evil – JP Ahonen, KP Alare

Sisters – Raina Telgemeier

Snackies – Nick Sumida

Snowpiercer 1: The Escape – Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette

Soppy: A Love Story – Philippa Rice

This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

Through the Woods – Emily Carroll

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir – Liz Prince

Twelve Gems – Lane Milburn

The Undertaking of Lily Chen – Danica Novgorodoff

Wrenchies – Farel Dalrymple

We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on what we selected or missed out on!

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