The literary/review blog ChasingRay.com has begun a series of author’s and cartoonist’s “favorites of 2008” lists and my list is currently posted. This isn’t technically a “best of” list, partially because the idea was to include your things you read in 2008, not your favorite things published in 2008–but also, as I note in the introduction to my list :
I read a fair amount of material–both prose and graphic novels–each year, much of which I either give away, lend to people or sell to a used book store when I’m done with it, so the list here isn’t necessarily a “best of” list drawn from everything I read in 2008; it’s more a list of things that were still handy on my shelves when I undertook this list… These are certainly some–but not all–of the best books I read in the past year.
I believe, though, that all of the comics mentioned are 2008 releases.
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Devil in the White City is a very enjoyable read! I was more interested in the construction of the World’s Fair than the serial killer portions. He stretched a bit in creating an atmosphere for H.H. Holmes. Thunderstruck follows a similar pattern, intertwining the invention of the radio with that of a killer on the run, but to less success.
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Yeah, like you, I was more interested in the Fair stuff than the serial killer end of things–although, this may be the “Stairway to Heaven” effect, in which we’re just so saturated with serial killer stuff in popular culture that it’s hard to get interested in it.