The Best Comics of 2021 by me, the celebrated author, Séamas O’Reilly

Oh hi! I don’t use Medium much, and have not in fact done so since <a href="https://seamas.medium.com/my-bumper-comics-of-the-year-2020-extravaganza-fa9e3b264770" rel="noopener">last year’s Bumper Comics Of The Year Extravaganza</a> but thought I’d dip back in because it proved quite popular and I receive regular (i.e. more than once all year) requests for me to choose a few of 2021’s comics highlights. Since we last spoke, I’ve become an <a href="https://www.irishbookawards.ie/winner/did-ye-hear-mammy-died/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">award-winning</a> author due to my extremely good and very cool memoir of my childhood, <a href="http://mammybook.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?</a>. This has been a very nice and quite unexpected turn of events as I wasn’t sure anyone would read it, but they did and I’m glad and you should also <a href="http://mammybook.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">buy it</a> and read it and tell everyone you like it also. Anyway, as people who will have known me before my latter-day change in fortunes might attest, my yearly Comics Round-Ups for the Irish Times (<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-comics-of-2019-stunning-debuts-canon-revamps-and-more-1.4109568" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2019</a>, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-graphic-novels-of-2018-1.3734219" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2018</a>, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/living-colour-favourite-comics-and-graphic-novels-of-2017-1.3324716?mode=amp" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2017</a>, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/comics-of-the-year-marvels-from-the-big-hitters-and-small-wonders-1.2911658?mode=amp" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2016</a>) have always been quite popular and this year I did a smaller, graphic novel focused piece <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-graphic-novels-of-2021-take-a-murderously-funny-trip-through-lockdown-1.4748160" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">which you can read here</a> (and from which I will be liberally cribbing for a few of the selections below). This is, obviously, an incomplete and personal view of just those comics I’ve sought out, had recommended or been sent for free as one of the few (only?) perks of being a journalist who likes comics in this hemisphere. So, if there’s stuff I’ve missed, <a href="https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1476666176419807245" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">feel free to let me know on Twitter</a>. In any case, given the absence of a print avenue for the full extent of my thoughts on the year in comics, however, I am once again putting everything down here for you to gorge on, unabridged. <a href="https://seamas.medium.com/the-best-comics-of-2021-by-me-the-celebrated-author-s%C3%A9amas-oreilly-7b1542b265c9">Visit Now</a>