Littlegreyman

Author: C S Morse

.Scott Morse is an artist and writer who gets far less attention than he deserves. His run on Plastic Man was great, and his series of Magic Pickle books can't be beat. In Littlegreyman, he looks at an alien with a story to tell, a Little Grey Man, as it were. Morse's style is so clean, not in the precision way, but in the way that emotional content , and the purposeful lack thereof at times, is so well-defined through the art. His fields are clean, his line influenced by deco and 1990s comics, and his entire approach feels at once painterly and in the mode of graphic design structuralist. The story is smart, and at times nimble, and there are jokes hidden here and there. This is a thoughtful comic, a powerful comic, and most importantly, a graphic novel that understands its point and makes it well. Why it's on the list: C. Scott Morse deserves way more attention... and also who doesn't love Greys?