The Best American Comics 2019
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: xix, 375 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.
"The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I'm moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page."--Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction
The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.
"The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I'm moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page."--Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction
The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.
Series: Best American series.
Contents:
Foreword / Bill Kartalopoulos -- Introduction / Jillian Tamaki -- Grip, vol. 1 (excerpt) / Lale Westvind -- Bit rot / E. A. Bethea -- Louis Undercover (excerpt) / Fanny Britt and isabelle Arsenault -- Bitumen or bust / Joe Sacco -- Self-love-cycle / Anatola Howard -- Vanguard / Leslie Stein -- Dognurse (excerpt) / Margot Ferrick -- Being an artist and a mother / Lauren Weinstein -- Martin Luther King Jr. was more radical than you think / Ben Passmore -- Selections from King-Cat #78 / John Porcellino -- Why don't we come together (excerpt) / Erik Nebel -- Small mistakes make big problems / Sophia Foster-Dimino -- Kindling (excerpt) / Xia Gordon -- Welcome to O.R.R.A. from Be Prepared (excerpt) / Vera Brosgol -- Uninhabitable / Jed McGowan -- Snow day for Mr. Good Guy / Nishant Saldanha -- Sabrina (excerpt) / Nick Drnaso -- Sex positive from The pervert (excerpt) / Remy Boydell and Michelle Perez -- In search of water-boiled fish / Angie Wang -- Anti-gone (excerpt) / Connor Willumsen -- Old ground (excerpt) / Noel Freibert -- Whatsa paintoonist? (excerpt) / Jerry Moriarty -- Perfect discipline from perfect discipline and unbending loyalty (excerpt) / Tommi Parrish -- By Monday I'll be floating in the hudson with the other garbage (excerpt) / Laura Lannes -- Hurt or fuck / Eleanore Davis -- Notable comics from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018
ISBN:
9780358067283
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GN Best Tamaki | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Graphic Novel | In |