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This is a great list. At first the idea didn't really grab me, but as I read the titles and saw the names of artists that I used to read constantly -- like Kaz and Pete Bagge, who are great but I've just lost track of them -- I realized this is a new way of looking back on the books I've read. There's all manner of 'best of' lists out there already. It's cool to think back on the artists who might not have won a Harvey or an Eisner award, but at some point they infected my brain with some hideous, hilarious, messed-up story that I've still never quite recovered from. If a cartoonist can't make me cry, the least they can do is traumatize me. I know, that's what the internet does best, but I prefer my nightmares to be accompanied by word balloons.

Maybe lists are like comics themselves, the better they are, the fewer the readers. And thank you.