About this Collection
This 2007 volume of the annual anthology series, edited by Chris Ware, gathers a wide-ranging selection of the year's best comic art and graphic storytelling from North America. Featuring works by both established and emerging cartoonists, the collection highlights the diversity and vitality of the medium, with pieces originally published in alternative weeklies, graphic novels, and webcomics.
Contains 42 stories
The Horror of Simply Being Alive
1 pp · Humor, Domestic
Ivan BrunettiIvan's Ex-Wife
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@#*!
4 pp · Humor, Biography
Art SpiegelmanVladekFredric WerthamAce Hole
Walkin' in a...Winta Wunda Land
3 pp · Humor, Domestic
Aline Kominsky-CrumbRobert CrumbSophie CrumbJoeyAmberHigh Girl
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Sophie Crumb
The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death
28 pp
Alison BechdelAlison's FatherAlison's CousinAlison's MotherStrange ManDistant Cousin
Just a Bad Seed
6 pp
Carol TylerTrudy
Whats Happening Marlys
4 pp · Children
Marlys
Skate Date
2 pp
LaurenJohn
John & I Go to the Movies…
2 pp
LaurenJohnLauren's Dad
I Ended Up At a “Latin” Club (Sept. 3, 2005)
1 pp
“I've been gradually freaking out more and more out about moving away” (Sept. 1, 2005)
1 pp
Vanessa
"Michael drew me and Gabrielle and it came out so well” (September 5, 2005)
1 pp
VanessaGabrielleMichael
“Karen and I were in Toys In Babeland” (September 12, 2005)
1 pp
VanessaKarenHasidic GuySaleslady
Untitled Non-Fiction story
12 pp · Non-Fiction
Gabrielle BelleRitaMary EllisEdieGrandmotherCarlottaJulieCarlosTherapistNeighborKevinGrantAlishaMarrianeJason
Six Things I Like About My Girlfriend
1 pp
Ivan BrunettiLaura
These Things, These Things
9 pp
Jeffrey BrownSophiaMichaelZak SallyMichael's GirlfriendAnders' MomStephanieCarly
Fuc 1997: We Share a Happy Secret but Beware Because the Modern World Emerges
16 pp
Country Roads- Brighton
5 pp
Needles and Pins
10 pp
David
Glenn In Bed
12 pp
Glenn GangesWendy
Lubavitch, Ukraine, 1876
11 pp · Historical
HarkhamRabbi ShustermanMosheBeruriahPunin
Untitled (The List)
11 pp · Historical
Frau LevyHerr BarossEvaAnna
Shoehorn Technique
11 pp
Seymour FloymDr. Alfred EisbeinReceptionistUncle LarryHealthy Young WomanLucyMyrna FloymLawrence PickellMrs. PisgahHenti AbleBrother Nostrand AvenuCarl Mandoor
Untitled story
19 pp
BenSasha Lenz
Fritz After Dark
24 pp
Fritz [Fritzi Rosalba Martinez]Mark HerreraEnrique EscobarBooker Court SlaterEnrique's MomEnrique's DadJanPhanto [Lars Mucklebus]JeromeAlbert [Franky Obregon]
In *Fritz After Dark*, Mark recounts the winding path that led Enrique from a shy, glasses-wearing high school outcast obsessed with the enigmatic Fritz to becoming her lover at their ten-year reunion. As the story unfolds across years, it traces Fritz’s complex relationships—with Jerome, Enrique, and Mark—through a decade of emotional shifts, personal reinvention, and quiet moments that culminate in her unexpected rise as a cult film icon in her late thirties.
No Midgets In Midgetville!
18 pp
DocKim DeitchMalek JanochekWalter KleinschmidtWaldo the CatMoll Barkeley-BakendorfDorothy Bakendorf-WeissJack SpriteGoldyEvil Weevil KingMorrisPamWanda Sponder
Dinner and a Walk
10 pp · Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals, Nature
Untitled story
10 pp
Chris RhodesRob FancincaniBeach LadyDave Barnes
Untitled (Discrete Operations Vehicle- Burning Gall)
10 pp
JimboFlukeValise
Blond Atchen and the Bumble Boys In the Second’s Lair
12 pp
Blond Atchen
My Bumbling, Corpulent Mass
1 pp · Non-Fiction
Ivan BrunettiSchroeder
Meet the Dropouts
2 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Wally GropiusThe Dropouts [FredRedEd]Munificent
Kramer’s Ergot: Fuck You
15 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
KramerJerry SeinfeldNewman
Won’t Be Licked! The Great ’37 Flood In Louisville
30 pp · Historical
Dalton ZettwochMuhammad Ali (single-panel)Mac McGuffinDalton's DadDalton's Mom
Untitled story
10 pp
Wimbledon GreenWimbledon's MotherPeteNurseAncient BooksellerEmployee
