This is my list of the 33 things that happened in the comics world in 2013 that made me happy. They’re in alphabetical order.
- 13th Dimension
- Adventure Time
- Alison Wilgus’ NASA comic for Tor.com
- Andrea Tsurumi winning the MoCCA Award for Excellence
- Asbury Park Comic Con
- Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
- Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges
- Cartozia Tales
- Christiann MacAuley for Cosmopolitan.com
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot wins the Costa Biography Prize- Eisner Award nominees go indie
- Flying Eye Books
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- Ignatz Graphic Novel nominees are all books by women
- Kate Beaton’s family holiday comics
- Kids Read Comics
- La Fille by Christophe Blain with Barbara Carlotti
- Manic Pixel Dream Girl by Elizabeth Simins
- March by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
- Michael DeForge sweeps the Ignatz Awards
- Mindful Drinking by Cathy Leamy
- Minicomics Day
- Oily Comics
- “Our Toyota Was Fantastic” by Boulet
- Pencil Pup by Megan Brennan
- Pink by Kyoko Okazaki
Promising New Talent winner Sam Alden as a mouse, as made by his mom- Saga
- Simon Hanselmann
- Small Press Expo
- Steven Universe
- Supermag by Jim Rugg
- Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust
