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[silversandbea]

I've started recording my hugo nominations, which means a lot of googling for word counts and checking author's websites for publishing dates, plus suddenly being unable to remember anything that I've read or watched in the past year. I really would have sworn that I watched television last year, but then I remembered that I watched a lot of television that didn't first air in 2018 (Black Sails, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Due South . . .).

EDIT:  While writing this down I remembered Steven Universe and She-Ra.  Well, that settles that category.

I think the empty category that surprises me the most is graphic novels - because I did read a bunch of comics that I thought were amazing, but they weren't Sci-fi/Fantasy.  Fence, Prince and the Dressmaker, Twisted Romance, Bingo Love - this was a very strong year for romance comics, apparently.  I was half thinking of nominating Sex Machine because at least it was SFF.  I nominated Paper Girls, because I still love them, but other than that, there were a few tie-in comics that I'd read, and a few more series I started and lost interest in.

So which SFF comics had a trade paperback come out in 2018?  What should I read?

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[ursula]

I've been planning to nominate My Boyfriend is a Bear, which I think counts as a fantasy romance comic?

[silversandbea]

(Great icon for this)

I'd count it! Also, it's fantastic, so it's got that going for it. Someone else was trying to talk me into the Prince and the Dressmaker, which I feel more awkward about - the only sort of fantastic element are the fact that the French monarchy did not last that long, and there's enough vaguely regency romances about made up Dukes that I wouldn't count as fantasy.

[jesse_the_k]

Have you read Blue Deliquanti's O Human Star?

https://ohumanstar.com/about/

Highly SFnal! Characters who have feelings!

[silversandbea]

I actually have the first volume in print in my TBR pile! (I haven't read it yet, but with my current 2 books from the TBR pile for every book purchased, I should get to it soon) They're local to me so I'll see their stuff highlighted in local comic book shops, and I've heard great things about it.

[silversandbea]

As a follow up, I might have started reading the first volume of O Human Star last night and finished everything that was available within 24 hours. It's very good!

Glad you liked it. Blue does a great job drawing tech.

[jesse_the_k]

I also enjoyed Meal, another comic Blue drew, which is about cookery with bugs. Blue's drawings capture the best parts of being human: somehow all their limbs and torsos smile.

/oops, back from a webcomic rabbit hole.

http://galanthuscomic.com looks intriguing--fantasy, not SF. Very lively color.

But, OT, because you're talking Hugos.

Re: Glad you liked it. Blue does a great job drawing tech.

[silversandbea]

Thanks! I'll check them out! (eh, I was reading hugos stuff last month, at this point I feel like I've nominated all that I'm probably going to nominate)