Love and Polyps

This year's Los Angeles Times Book Prize has a new category this year: the graphic novel! I was a judge, along with Douglas Wolk and Joel Rose. It was fun! I love how different these books are from each other...

Here are the finalists:

• Gilbert Hernandez, Luba (A Love and Rockets Book) (Fantagraphics Books)
• Taiyo Matsumoto, GoGo Monster (VIZ Media)
• David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)
• Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe (Oni Press)
• Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., LLC)

(Complete list of all categories here.)

Douglas points out some nice notices already about our list...check out this one to see the covers of the books in question.