PanelxPanel #55 - Comics We Loved 2021

PanelxPanel is the Eisner Award-winning digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics. It’s edited by Tiffany Babb and Strip Panel Naked host Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and features a rotating set of critics, fans, and professionals.

This issue is our Comics We Loved in 2021 Year in Review issue, featuring essays on some of our favourite comics and themes from the past 12 months.

A true celebration of the medium with every issue, looking at all the elements that make comics an interesting art form and a great place to tell visual stories. This is a magazine that cares about comics.

Some of this issue's contents:

Our big list of great comics to catch-up on from 2021.
Marvel and DC's Pride anthology comics
The ongoing brilliance of Usagi Yojimbo
Using fantasy to discuss identity, with DIE and Suitor Armor
Will McPhail's In. and it's perfect representation of modern life
Plus: Crisis Zone, As Per Usual & reader suggestions.

In our Regualars:
A short comic.
Ollie Masters and crime-comics-cohorts Brian Azzarello and Jason Aaron have a round-table discussion about making comics.
Zachary Jenkins on the power of Saga.
Hagai Palevsky goes back to Stages of Rot.
Lillie Hochwender's Final Thoughts on Journey Into Mystery.

Available now.