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The best American comics 2015 / edited and introduced by Jonathan Lethem ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

741.5 B561 2015

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

Best American series.

Table of contents.

9780544107700 (hc.)

0544107705 (hc.)

Alternate title:

American comics 2015

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

Mom and dad. Can't we talk about something more pleasant? (exerpt) / Roz Chast ; Kill my mother (exerpt) / Jules Feiffer -- Superheroes d©♭tourned. Theth (exerpt) / Josh Bayer ; Sadistic comics / R. Sikoryak ; Mathilde's story / Diane Obomsawin ; Blane throttle (exerpt) / Ben Duncan -- Storytellers. The wrenchies (exerpt) / Farel Dalrymple ; Prometheus / Anders Nilsen ; Palm ash / Julia Gfr�orer ; The good witch, 1947 / Megan Kelso -- Voices. No tears, no sorrow / Eleanor Davis ; Pretty smart / Andy Burkholder ; The Colombia diaries, Sept 14-16 (exerpt) / Gabrielle Bell -- You might even hang them on your wall. No title (I was fumbling), no title (the credits rolled), and no title (as we can) / Raymond Pettibon ; Locher de chiens / Henriette Valium ; Pythagoras / Ron Reg�e, Jr. ; 76 manifestations of American Destiny (exerpt) / David Sandlin ; Cretin keep on creep'n creek / Mat Brinkman ; briefly, before dawn / Rosaire Appel -- Biopics and historical fictions. selections from Hip hop family tree / Ed Piskor ; Woman rebel : the Margaret Sanger story (exerpt) / Peter Bagge ; The Great War (exerpt) / Joe Sacco -- Working the cute nerve. Fran (exerpt) / Jim Woodring ; Little Tommy lost : book one (exerpt) / Cole Closser ; Mimi and the wolves (exerpt) / Alabaster ; Pockets of temporal disruptions (exerpt) from Safari honeymoon / Jesse Jacobs ; Misliving amended / Adam Buttrick -- Raging her-moans. My year of unreasonable grief (part four) (exerpt) from Lena Finkle's magic barrel / Anya Ulinich ; Someone please have sex with me / Gina Wynbrandt ; After school (exerpt) from Unloveable, vol.3 / Esther Pearl Watson -- The way we live now. Informanics (exerpt) / Matthew Thurber ; Cross delivery, Screw style, How did you get in the hole?, The pen, and We can't sleep from The hole / Noel Freibert ; Comets comets / Blaise Larmee ; Crime chime noir / A. Degen -- Brainworms. No class (exerpt) from School spirits / Anya Davidson ; Net gain, Swiping at branches, and The perfect match / Kevin Hooyman ; Behold the sexy man! from Well come / Erik Nebel.

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. "As I know well from my own field, true vitality consists of stuff that's further off the radar of general acclaim. The influx of raw arrivals. The deep cuts."--Jonathan Lethem, from the Introduction. Jonathan Lethem brings both literary and comics credibility to his picks for the best graphic pieces of the year. Featuring Gabrielle Bell, Mat Brinkman, Roz Chast, Anya Davidson, Eleanor Davis, Jules Feiffer, Blaise Larmee, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Piskor, Joe Sacco, Esther Pearl Watson, and others. Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Gun, with Occasional Music, and most recently Dissident Gardens. Bill Kartalopoulos is a Brooklyn-based comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches comics history at the School of Visual Arts"--Provided by publisher.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels.

Lethem, Jonathan.

Kartalopoulos, Bill.

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