Two CCS Alum Make The A.V. Club 10 Best Graphic Novel of 2013

December 12, 2013

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The A.V. Club‘s picks 10 top art comics and graphic novels of the year, includes 2 CCS alum books: Cole Closser’s Little Tommy Lost and Chuck Forsman’s Celebrated Summer:

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The A.V. Club, picks include: Emily Carroll, Out Of Skin (Self-published), Gabriel Hardman, Kinski (Monkeybrain), Gilbert Hernandez, Julio’s Day (Fantagraphics), Cole Closser, Little Tommy Lost: Book One (Koyama), Peter Wartman, Over The Wall (Uncivilized), Paul Pope, Battling Boy (First Second), Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia Of Early Earth (Little, Brown and Company), Gene Luen Yang, Boxers and Saints (First Second), Rutu Modan, The Property (Drawn And Quarterly), Chuck Forsman, Celebrated Summer (Fantagraphics). Click here to read the complete story.

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