Items22The creator’s order
  1. 1Smile (2010)Smile (2010) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2010If you want to know why so many of the decade's comics readers were ten years old, start with Raina Telgemeier's autobiographical Smile. It began as a webcomic and arrived from Scholastic's Graphix imprint in February 2010, then refused to leave the charts: by early 2017 the paperback had spent 240…0
  2. 2Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011)Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011)Published Jan 1, 2011Few new superheroes of the decade traveled further than Miles Morales, the Afro-Latino teenager who took over the Spider-Man name in Marvel's Ultimate line. Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli created him, he debuted in Ultimate Fallout #4 in August 2011, and this series is where his story…0
  3. 3Batman (comic book)Batman (comic book)Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman, from September 2011 to May 2016 DC rebooted its whole line in 2011, and this was the book from that relaunch that lasted. Snyder and Capullo stayed together for almost the entire 52-issue run, which is rare in modern superhero publishing, and it shows in how…0
  4. 4Saga (2012)Saga (2012)Published Mar 14, 2012Saga is the decade's defining creator-owned comic, and the reason Image Comics became the place top writers wanted to be. Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples launched it in March 2012: a space-opera family story about two soldiers from warring sides raising a baby on the run, as funny and explicit…0
  5. 5Hawkeye (Clint Barton)Hawkeye (Clint Barton)Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, launched in 2012 This is the book that taught Marvel a superhero comic could be about the hero's days off. Fraction and Aja give Clint Barton an apartment building to defend from a gang of tracksuited crooks, and Aja's flat color, tight grids and diagram-like…0
  6. 6Building stories (2012)Building stories (2012) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012Chris Ware's Building Stories is a box rather than a book: fourteen printed pieces, from cloth-bound hardcovers to newspapers, broadsheets and flip books, that you can read in any order. It took a decade to finish and came out from Pantheon in 2012, taking four Eisners the following year, including…0
  7. 7March (comics)March (comics)The civil rights movement as told by one of the people who marched in it. John Lewis wrote this memoir trilogy with Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell drew and lettered it, from Book One in 2013 to Book Three in 2016. Powell's lettering does real work, swelling and shrinking with the noise of sit-ins…0
  8. 8Sex Criminals (2013)Sex Criminals (2013)Published Jan 1, 2013A sex comedy that turned out to be one of the decade's kindest books about intimacy. Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Image series, launched in September 2013, follows a librarian and an actor who discover they freeze time when they climax, and decide to rob his bank to save her library. Time named…0
  9. 9Kamala KhanKamala KhanMs. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, from 2014 Kamala Khan, a teenage Pakistani American from Jersey City, was the first Muslim character to headline a Marvel comic, and her series proved a new hero could build a real readership from scratch. Wilson writes family, faith and fan…0
  10. 10Lumberjanes (2014)Lumberjanes (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Lumberjanes is where the decade's all-ages boom found its friendship-first heart. Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson and Gus Allen sent a group of girls to a summer scout camp full of monsters and mysteries, and the 2014 launch from Boom! Studios' Boom Box imprint won the 2015 Eisners for…0