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Leela Corman

Corman is not exactly a new face in comics — her book Queen’s Day won her a Xeric Award in 1999 — and nor is she (at least so far) a graphic memoirist. But we think her indelibly true-feeling stories and fantastic art land her squarely on this list — if for nothing else, than for last year’s Unterzakhn (Yiddish for “Underthings”), an immigrant story set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century that hits as hard as any true story.