best of 2016

Check out the best romance and erotica comics in 2016, including our critics' picks and the comics you voted the runner up and winner in this category!

Check out the best comedy comics in 2016, including our critics' picks and the comics you voted the runners up and winner in this category!

Check out the best horror comics in 2016, including our critics' picks, and the comics you voted the runner up and winner in this category!

Check out the best fantasy comics in 2016, including our critics' picks, and the comics you voted the runner up and winner in this category!

Check out the best sci-fi comics in 2016, including our critics' picks and the comics you voted the runners up and winner in this category!

Check out the best comics for kids in 2016, including our critics' picks, listed in alphabetical order, and the comics you voted the runner up and winner in this category!

While 2016 was a tough year in many regards, it produced some amazing comics, including a lot of great comics aimed at teen readers. Our writers and editors have made their picks of the best comics of the past year, and you, the readers of ComicsAlliance, have voted for your favorites. Now check out the best comics for teens in 2016, including our critics' picks, listed in alphabetical order, and the comics you voted the runner up and winner in this category! This is the very best of 2016!

For the third and final day of our end-of-year readers' polls, we want you to help us pick out the year's winners in some diverse categories, including best screen performance, best anthology, and best character redesign. We also want to know who your favorite new character was in 2016, and which established character most deserve a solo book in 2017. Then there two of the biggest questions of the year that we need your help to answer. What was this year's best new book, and which creator had the biggest breakthrough in 2016? That could mean someone who seemed to appear on the scene overnight, or it could be someone whose profile took a big leap after years of amazing work.

While 2016 was a tough year in many regards, it's produced some amazing comics, from suburban sci-fi to sex toy reviews, from kooky Vertigo revivals to bootleg superhero zines. But who were the outstanding creators in 2016? That's a question that we want you, the readers, to answer. We've put together a series of polls to determine which talented writers, artists, inkers, editors and more deserve special recognition for their contributions to comics in 2016.

While 2016 was a tough year in many regards, it's produced some amazing comics, from Victorian erotic horror to queer teen detectives to weird new spins on nostalgic favorites. But what were the very best comics of 2016? That's a question that we want you, the readers, to answer. We've put together a series of polls to determine the best comics in some of the industry's most popular genres, including science fiction, horror, crime, comedy, and superheroes, as well as the best comics aimed at kids and teens.