Best of 2021

Holy shit, 2021 was a bizarre year. 2022 will be just as weird. They’re all weird. I guess that’s the good news and the bad news. As always, I spent a significant amount of the year trying to engage with fun/pretty/funny stuff. Appearing here, in no particular order are some of my favorites.

New albums:

Haram- Armand Hammer
Madison - Sloppy Jane
Dark In Here - Mountain Goats
Audio Drag for Ego Slobs - Gustaf
Welfare Jazz - Viagra Boys
Bless My Psyche - Sincere Engineer
Deep State - Tropical Fuck Storm
Afrique Victime - Mdou Moctar
Springtime- Springtime
Boneyard aka Fearmonger - Underscores

New Comics:

Dracula - Alberto Breccia
Domesticated Afterlife - Scott Finch
Echolands - JH Williams III, W. Haden Blackman, and Dave Stewart
No. 5 - Taiyo Matsumoto
Dog Biscuits- Alex Graham
Future - Tomi Musturi
Jimbo In Paradise - Gary Panter
Ultramega - James Harren and Dave Stewart
Crisis Zone - Simon Hanselman
Poison Flowers and Pandemonium - Richard Sala

Prose Fiction:

For better or worse, I didn’t read many novels that came out this year - so these are my favorites of the books I read this year regardless of when they were published.

Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
Something New Under the Sun - Alexandra Kleeman
Gerald’s Party - Robert Coover
Wild Boys - William S Burroughs
Cotton Comes to Harlem - Chester Himes
Golden Gizmo - Jim Thompson
Watershed - Percival Everett
Mindplayers - Pat Cadigan
Alice Knott - Blake Butler