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Best American comics 2016 / edited and introduced by Roz Chast ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

741.5 B561 2016

Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.

Best American series.

9780544750357 (hc.)

Alternate title:

American comics 2016

xviii, 379 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

"Best American Comics 2016 represents a selection of outstanding work published between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015." -- p.xii.

Killing and dying / Adrian Tomine. -- Wendy (excerpt) / Walter Scott. -- The Last saturday (excerpt) / Christ Ware. -- The Swim and Today / Anne Emond. -- R. Crumb and Me / Drew Friedman. -- Stroppy (excerpt) / Mar Bell. -- Powdered milk, vol. 14 / Keiler Roberts. -- Milk from Bumf, vol. 1 / Joe Sacco. -- The Dishrack / Gabrielle Bell. -- Syllabus (excerpt) / Lynda Barry. -- The Hospital suite (excerpt) / John Porcellino. -- All the paintings here agree / Liana Finck. -- El Deafo (excerpt) / Cece Bell. -- Broadside ballads / Kate Beaton. -- The Corpse, the Ghost and the Hollow-Weenie (excerpt) from The Adventures of Tad martin #6 / Casanova Frankenstein. -- Fashion cat / Alex Schubert. -- Bike fast, Coney Island, and Home / Sophia Zdon. -- Vintage trash and Horse bones / Julia Wertz. -- Here (excerpt) / Richard McGuire. -- Dissident years (excerpt) from Fatherland / Nina Bunjevac. -- mom / Dave Lapp. -- Adult only (excerpt) / Lance Ward. -- The Danish modern borer, the Latest laugh, The Needleless garment extruder, Illness in the window, The Vontsel Institute, and The Brazen Bull Corporation / Ben Katchor. -- Blanket portraits / Geneviève Elverum. -- Shut your pie hole, Johnny Pinetop / Joe Ollmann. -- Blinky-Jinks Playhouse / Char Esm�e -- Big Rudy's cowgirls Club / Char Esmée and Lauren Poor -- Untitled / Taylor-Ruth Baldwin. -- Bumps in the night (excerpt ) / Gilbert Hernandez. -- Don't leave me alone / GG.

"New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast picks the best graphic pieces of the year. It showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make a collection that is full of varied, provocative feats of cartooning. Featuring Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others. Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books including her memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor, is a comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches courses about comics at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts."--Provided by publisher.

Graphic novels.

Kartalopoulos, Bill.

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