2015 was really my first year on Goodreads, in many ways. I joined in 2010, but didn't take the time to do anything beyond the occasional hastily scribbled review. In the last several months I've met some great people, and benefitted from their wit, wisdom and sound aesthetic judgement... or just enjoyed some clever and entertaining reviewing, whether it was mostly serious literary analysis or .gif-ed out and hilarious. 
 The year started well and is ending badly, as I've been trampled by the First Horseman (or maybe the Second? Third? Not the fourth, anyway, which I'm sure is death, and it wasn't famine, though there may have been a touch of warfare). Just a general kick in the health I wasn't expecting, and won't get into, because it's boring, even to me. Apologies to anyone who's made comments or left messages I haven't answered. :-) 
 These are the titles I read and liked the best in 2015, obviously, with a preference given to the stuff that had a 2015 release date, or a final chapter published in 2015... Anyway... this is what I've got for now, though I'll be adding the titles I've forgotten. 
 And of course, these are just my favorites from the pile of artbooks and comics I've read in the last year or so. If you think one or more of these suck, that's fucking wonderful... and you are wrong to seven trillion orders of magnitude! Wrong at a level where quarks look bigger than galaxies! :-P No... Not really. It's just stuff I like, and not all of these books are universally well-regarded... is anything? Someone two-starred 'The Wire', ferfucksakes. It happens. :-) 
 The Best Sequential Art and Art Monographs of 2015: 
 01(a). Aama: Volume 1-4, by Frederik Peeters; published by Self-Made Hero 
 An excellent translation of Frederik Peeters 'Aama', released in 4 volumes by Self-Made Hero between late 2014 and 2015, and I can't recommend this series highly enough. This is Peeter's masterpiece, a science fiction adventure that is clever, unpredictable, moving, and visually stunning. Though he's been one of my favorite artists for the last couple years with his Blutch-meets-Katsuhiro Otomo-meets-Moebius style, laying beautiful waste to my expectations on books like Pachyderme, Koma and Lupus, this was something truly special. 
 01(b). Ali Banisadr: One Hundred and Twenty Five Paintings, by Ali Banisadr and Blain|Southern 
 01(c). Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra (Revised and Updated 2nd Edition), by Walton Ford 
 01(d). Zdzislaw Beksinski: 1929-2005, by Zdzislaw Beksinski and Bosz; Zdzislaw Beksinski: The Collected Works: Volume 1, 2 and 3, by Zdzislaw Beksinski and Editions Treville 
 02(a). X'ed Out, The Hive and Sugar Skull, by Charles Burns; published by Pantheon 
 02(b). The Complete Eightball #1-18, by Daniel Clowes 
 02(c). Big Damn Sin City, by Frank Miller 
 03. Peplum and Lune L'Envers, by Blutch 
 04. James Jean: Pareidolia, by James Jean and PIE Books 
 05. Love in Vain, by Mezzo and Dupont 
 06. Ruprecht Von Kaufmann: Arbeiten 2007-2010, by Ruprecht Von Kaufmann and Hirmer 
 07. Hawkeye Omnibus, by Matt Fraction and David Aja 
 08. District 14: Season 1 and 2, by Pierre Gabus and Romuald Reutimann 
 09. Dictionnaire des Yokai - Integrale, by Shigeru Mizuki 
 10. Fatale: Deluxe Edition - Vol. 1 and 2, Criminal: Deluxe Edition - Vol. 1 and 2, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 
 11. Basil Wolverton's Weird Worlds: Artist's Edition, by Basil Wolverton and IDW 
 12. Lars Elling: Lucid Dreaming, by Lars Elling and Fortaget 
 13. We Stand on Guard #1-6, by B. K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce 
 14. Hellboy in Hell & Other Stories: Artist's Edition, by Mike Mignola and IDW 
 15. Daniel Pitin: Blind Man's Bluff, by Daniel Pitin and Hatje Cantz 
 16. By This Shall You Know Him and Safari Honeymoon, by Jesse Jacobs 
 17. Ant Colony, A Body Beneath, Dressing and Very Casual, by Michael Deforge 
 18. Thor: Vol. 1 - The God Butcher and Vol. 2 - GodBomb, by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic 
 19. Dustin Yellin: Heavy Water, by Dustin Yellin and Rizzoli 
 20. Tiny Pencil: III - The Beast Issue and IV - The Death & Resurrection Issue, by Amber Hsu and Various 
 21. Tenmyouya Hisashi: Masterpiece, by Tenmyouya Hisashi and Seigensha 
 22. The Sixth Gun: Deluxe Edition - Volume 1 and 2, by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt 
 23.The Drawings of Laurie Lipton, by Laurie Lipton and Last Gasp 
 24. Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, by Chris Oliveros and Various 
 25. Jean Delville: Maitre de l'ideal, by Jean Delville 
 The Late and Half-Read Greats of 2015 
 01. Tel qu'en lui-meme enfin, by Killoffer 
 02. Sandman: Overture, by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III