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I’ll be posting once a month, usually the fourth or fifth Friday or Saturday of every month (or first Friday or Saturday of the following one, if the month has caught me off guard). I might post more if there’s a comic convention or some big news worth posting about, but otherwise you can always be sure I’ll provide an update on the comics book club I help run and various comics news stories.
I thought I’d end this post with all the comics the book club has read in all the years we’ve been meeting. Do you have a favorite? Anything that stands out to you? Are you curious about how any of these were received? Please be sure to comment! Thanks again for visiting Devin’s Chicago Comics Book Club Digest.
What We've Read
2018
July - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Alison Bechdel)
August - Astro City, Volume 1: Life in the Big City (Writer: Kurt Busiek, Artist: Brent Anderson)
September - March, Volumes 1 and 2 (W: John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, A: Nate Powell)
October - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (Lucy Knisley)
November - Sandman, Volume 7: Brief Lives (W: Neil Gaiman; A: Jill Thompson, Vince Locke)
December - N/A (I was on vacation in Thailand and most people were away for the holidays.)
2019
January - The Vision, Volume 1: Little More than a Man (W: Tom King, A: Gabriel Walta)
February - Blankets (Craig Thompson)
March - The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 1: The Faust Act (W: Kieron Gillen, A: Jamie McKelvie)
April - Black Hole (Charles Burns)
May - Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned (W: Brian K. Vaughan, A: Pia Guerra)
June - Sabrina (Nick Drnaso)
July - Ex Machina, Volume 1: The First Hundred Days (W: Brian K. Vaughan, A: Tony Harris)
August - Ghost World (Daniel Clowes)
September - Watchmen (W: Alan Moore, A: Dave Gibbons)
October - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Volume 1 (W: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, A: Robert Hack)
November - 100 Bullets, Volume 1: First Shot, Last Call (W: Brian Azzarello, A: Eduardo Risso)
December - Batwoman: Elegy (W: Greg Rucka, A: J. H. Williams III)
2020
January - On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden)
February - Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood (Marjane Satrapi)
March - N/A (I don’t think I have to explain why we skipped this month.)
April - Mister Miracle (W: Tom King, A: Mitch Gerads)
May - Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (W: Joe Hill, A: Gabriel Rodriguez)
June - The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game (W: Garth Ennis, A: Darick Robertson)
July - Nowhere Men, Volume 1: Fates Worse than Death (W: Eric Stephenson, A: Nate Bellegarde)
August - Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1 (W: Alan Moore; A: Stephen Bissette, John Totleben)
September - Uzumaki (Junji Ito)
October - Wytches, Volume 1 (W: Scott Snyder, A: Jock)
November - Monstress, Book 1 (W: Marjorie Liu, A: Sana Takeda)
December - Paper Girls, Volume 1 (W: Brian K. Vaughan, A: Cliff Chiang)
2021
January - Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (W: Mark Russell, A: Mike Feehan)
February - I Am Not Okay With This (Charles Forsman)
March - Black Hammer, Volume 1: Secret Origins (W: Jeff Lemire, A: Dean Ormston)
April - Ice Cream Man, Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles (W: W. Maxwell Prince, A: Martín Morazzo)
May - Resident Alien, Volume 1: Welcome to Earth! (W: Peter Hogan, A: Steve Parkhouse)
June - You Brought Me the Ocean (W: Alex Sanchez, A: Julie Maroh)
July - Giant Days, Volume 1 (W: John Allison, A: Lissa Treiman)
August - Sex Criminals, Volumes 1 and 2 (W: Matt Fraction, A: Chip Zdarsky)
September - The Uncanny X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (W: Chris Claremont, A: John Byrne)
October - Something Is Killing the Children, Volume 1 (W: James Tynion IV, A: Werther Dell'Edera)
November - Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine (W: Kelly Sue DeConnick, A: Valentine De Landro)
December - Gender Queer: A Memoir (Maia Kobabe)
2022
January - Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal (W: G. Willow Wilson, A: Adrian Alphona)
February - Daytripper (Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá)
March - The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt (Ken Krimstein)
April - Saga, Volume 1 (W: Brian K. Vaughan, A: Fiona Staples)
May - V for Vendetta (W: Alan Moore, A: David Lloyd)
June - Upgrade Soul (Ezra Claytan Daniels)
July - The Sensational She-Hulk, Volume 1 (John Byrne)
August - The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (W: Ram V, A: Filipe Andrade)
September - Maus (art spiegelman)
October - iZombie, Volume 1: Dead to the World (W: Chris Roberson, A: Mike Allred)
November - We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, Volume 1: The Seeker (W: Al Ewing, A: Simone Di Meo)
December - Lore Olympus, Volume 1 (Rachel Smythe)
2023
January - BTTM FDRS (W: Ezra Claytan Daniels, A: Ben Passmore)
February - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One (W: Ta-Nehisi Coates, A: Brian Stelfreeze)
March - Palestine (Joe Sacco)
April - Guardians of the Louvre (Jirō Taniguchi)
May - They Called Us Enemy (W: George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott; A: Harmony Becker)