Top 10 Comics of 2025: From Lorenzo Fonda to Robert Crumb

Artribune has selected the ten most compelling comics published in 2025, spanning autobiographical memoirs, political allegories, and historical reimaginings. The list includes Lorenzo Fonda's "Per aspera ad astra" (Coconino), an intimate diary about the life and death of illustrator Elena Xausa and Fonda's subsequent grief; Majid Bita's "L'autobus incantato" (Canicola), which recounts a real 1990s Iranian regime plot to eliminate dissident intellectuals; Maicol & Mirco's "L'Isolo" (Bao), a poetic monologue on solitude; Gerry Alanguilan's "Elmer" (NPE Edizioni), a metaphor for racism featuring intelligent chickens; Tessa Hulls' "Ombre di famiglia" (Tunué), which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for memoir and autobiography, tracing three generations of Chinese women; Milo Manara's "Odissea" (Feltrinelli Comics), a sensual retelling of Homer's epic from Telemachus's perspective; Zuzu's "Ragazzo" (Coconino Press), a story of adolescent anxiety; Štěpánka Jislová's "Stretta al cuore" (Eris Edizioni), an autobiographical graphic novel about love and gender stereotypes; Robert Crumb's "Gnam Gnam" (Rizzoli Lizard), his debut work from the early 1960s, a gift to his future wife Dana Morgan; and Laurent Galandon and Michaël Crouzat's "Ritorno a Tomioka" (ReNoir Comics), winner of the 2025 Prix Jeunesse at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, about two orphans after the Fukushima disaster.