Two titles published this year by New York Review Comics—Blurry, by Dash Shaw, and Spiral and Other Stories, by Aidan Koch—were named among the Washington Post's ten best graphic novels of 2024. Celebrating the variety of voices, stories, themes, and narrative structures developed through graphic novels in the past year, the article recognizes Shaw's and Koch's contributions to the medium.
The Post's Jacob Brogan praises Blurry's "matryoshka" structure, which "knits together tales of discreet lives... [Blurry] cuts through the fog of our alienated era, inviting us to acknowledge the sometimes subtle connections that bind us to one another." Of Spiral, Brogan writes that "this is work that hums at the base of your skull, and it spreads through you like a deep and deliberate breath."
Both Spiral and Other Stories and Blurry are available now from book sellers and the NYRB website.