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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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[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)