Name: Jim Kingman
Jim Kingman has been a faithful reader and collector of comic books for over thirty years. He currently publishes Comic Effect, a quarterly fanzine dedicated to emphasizing the fun in reading comics from all ages Golden, Silver, and Modern! For more on CE, check out its website at ComicEffect.Com.
On The Web: Best and Worst Comics of 2004
By Jim Kingman
Due to time constraints this week, I haven’t been able to pull together much of a column. However, I do want to make mention of four Best of (w/ some Worst of) 2004 Comics articles that have been posted on various websites (all of which helped to inspire my “THE” comics column from last week). There’s a wealth of excellent material to choose from on these lists (not to mention what to avoid), just don’t expect a lot of superheroes.
Comic Book Galaxy: Year End Round Table, conducted by Alan David Doane
http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/121404_roundtable.html
The Comics Reporter: A Top 40 For 2004 by Tom Spurgeon
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/commentary/714/
Best + Worst Comix 2004 by Andrew Arnold
http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/comics.html
Mile High Comics presents The Beat (by Heidi MacDonald) at comiccon.com
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/archives/2005/01/tops_of_2004.html#more
If you’d like to discuss these Best of 2004 Comics lists, feel free to start a thread at Special Effects, or e-mail me directly. And if you know of other lists of this kind out there in cyberspace, please let me know! I love to read ‘em!
Enjoy the articles, and I’ll be back next week with more fun stuff on comic books!
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