In the frame: Best of the year in comic books and graphic novels 

Irish artists and writers had another strong year, writes Don O'Mahony 

From left to right: Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell (Fantagraphic Books); Cerberus’ New Trick by Brendan O’Connell and Fiona Boniwell; and Erased: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood by Loo Hui Phang & Hugues Micol (NBM).

Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell (Fantagraphic Books)

Five centuries on, Hieronymus Bosch’s enigmatic masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights continues to exert a strange fascination. Little is known about it, but Colwell, a figure in California’s underground comix scene of the 1970s, penetrates its mysteries in a story that deals with the tensions between the demands of patronage, religious doctrine and artistic vision.