Emily Polson

We asked our contributors to share the best comic book, graphic novel, or webcomic that they read in the last few months as we screamed the biggest goodbye-never-see-you-again to 2020.

Struggling these days to sustain the focus you need to read? Friend, you’re not alone. Maybe you’ve always had a short attention span, or maybe the general state of the world combined with the shortening winter days is making it difficult to sit down with a book and tune everything else out. If you’ve only got a little attention to spare, this probably isn’t the time to pick up War and Peace.

The End of the Day by Bill Clegg. Bill Clegg returns with a deeply moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness. All my closest friends are bookish, and many of our friendships were founded on books.