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The best American comics 2018 / edited and introduced by Phoebe Gloeckner.

Gloeckner, Phoebe, (editor,, writer of introduction.).

Summary:

""I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today." -- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1328464601
ISBN: 9781328464606
Physical Description: xv, 395 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Notable comics from September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2017"--Page vi.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ghost cats from Everything is flammable (Excerpt) / Gabrielle Bell -- Selections from How to be alive / Tara Booth -- Echoes into eternity / D. J. Bryant -- The warlok story / Max Clotfelter -- The Shaolin cowboy: who'll stop the reign? (Excerpt) / Geof Darrow -- Hostage (Excerpt) / Guy Delisle -- Brausebad / Abraham Díaz -- Margot / Margot Ferrick -- My favorite this is monsters book 1 (Excerpt) / Emil Ferris -- A taste of purgatory from Purgatory (Excerpt) / Casanova Frankenstein -- Frail nature / Julia Gfrörer -- Selections from Susan something / Julian Glander -- Sam's story from the rolling blackouts (Excerpt) / Sarah Glidden -- Angloid, part 2 / Alex Graham -- Megg, Mogg & Owl:"A gift for a baby" / Simon Hanselmann -- Forest spirits / Jaime Hernandez -- The wide birth and benign neglect / Kevin Hooyman -- Crawl space (Excerpt) / Jesse Jacobs -- Playground of my mind (Excerpt) / Julia Jacquette -- Miss V: my last love story / Andre Krayewski and Ed Krayewski -- Selections from Art school / Aaron Lange -- Seabrook of Arabia from the Abominable Mr. Seabrook / Joe Ollmann -- Selections from Things more likely to kill you than...and Busy comic / Laura Pallmall -- Songy of paradise (Excerpt) / Gary Panter -- UGLY / Chloë Perkis -- Fatherson / Richie Pope -- Untitled (Excerpt) / Michael Ridge -- Sunburning (Excerpts) / Keiler Roberts -- Things I regret / Ariel Schrag -- The moolah tree (Excerpt) / Ted Stearn -- Art comic (Excerpt) / Matthew Thurber -- The last felony comics story / Pete Toms -- Yazar and Arkada̧s (Excerpt) / Lale Westvind.