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The Best American Comics #2009

Oct 2009 · Houghton Mifflin · 22.00 USD
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The Best American Comics 2009, edited by Charles Burns, is the fourth volume in the annual anthology series from Houghton Mifflin. This collection showcases a diverse range of graphic narratives, comic strips, and excerpts from longer works, selected from the previous year's output to represent the breadth of contemporary American comics. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging cartoonists, the volume offers a curated snapshot of the medium's artistic and storytelling trends at the time.

Contains 38 stories
Shh!
6 pp · Humor
Justin M. Damiano
4 pp
Justin M. DamianoMarion Putman-ZeiringRoy EppleyCourtney HeislerMovie Director
Artist vs. Artisan
6 pp · Humor
Underworld
10 pp · Humor
Hillbillys 'R' Dumb
2 pp · Humor
Why I Write Only About Myself...
1 pp · Non-Fiction
Our Beloved Tape Dispenser
3 pp · Non-Fiction
Aline Kominsky-CrumbRobert CrumbHectorPhil WhiteKathy Kurzbacher
Crime Is Pushing the Limits!
5 pp · Humor, Satire-Parody
Mark TwainAlbert Einstein
Spirit Duplicator
5 pp
The Company
10 pp
Shortcomings (Excerpt)
19 pp
Over Easy
14 pp
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!
4 pp · Biography
Cruddy
5 pp
When I Was Eleven
5 pp · Non-Fiction
Ring Tones
6 pp · Humor
Dal Tokyo
12 pp
Disinfected Youth
1 pp
Gravel Migration
1 pp
The Wide Riders
1 pp
Silent Comics
6 pp
Mosfet Warlock and the Mechlin Men
14 pp
Slumburbia
8 pp
The Galactic Funnels
7 pp
Berlin (Excerpt)
13 pp · Historical
Untitled story
6 pp
Black Death
15 pp
Jordan W. Lint
8 pp · Drama
Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville (Excerpt)
20 pp
Freaks
10 pp · Drama
AdaCalum
Skim (Excerpt)
21 pp · Drama
Kim
Antoinette
10 pp
Pulverize
21 pp · Drama
The Argument
3 pp · Humor
5:45 A.M.
4 pp
Papa
16 pp · Drama
The Hand That Feeds
8 pp · Drama, Animal, Fantasy
Hope Gropius
3 pp · Humor

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Full credits

writer, artist, inker, letterer Laura Park
cover pencils, inks Michael Kupperman

Reprints

↩ Reprints Optic Nerve #9 (2004), Big Questions #10 (2007), Crickets #2 (2007), Mome #9 (2007), The New Yorker #11/26/2007 (2007), Berlin #14 (2007), Against Pain #[nn] (2008), Hotwire #2 (2008), Insomnia #3 (2008), Lucky #2 (2008), The Book of Other People #[nn] (2008), Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees #[nn] (2008), Ganges #2 (2008), Skim #[nn] (2008), Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville #5 (2008), Mome #10 (2008), Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 (2008), Superior Showcase #3 (2008), Mome #11 (2008), Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 (2008), Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! #[nn] (2008), Virginia Quarterly Review #4 (2008), Apocalypse Nerd #6, Blurred Vision: New Narrative Art #4, Comic Art #9, Powr Mastrs #1

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