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The Best American Comics #2017

Oct 2017 · Houghton Mifflin · 25.00 USD
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This volume of The Best American Comics series, guest-edited by Ben Katchor, curates a selection of graphic fiction and nonfiction published in 2016 across various media, including comic books, graphic novels, webcomics, and periodicals. It showcases a diverse range of storytelling styles and artistic approaches, reflecting the year's most notable contributions to the medium. The anthology aims to represent the breadth and vitality of contemporary comics, featuring both established and emerging cartoonists.

Contains 40 stories
The Future of Art 25 Years Hence
8 pp
Communication Workers of America
4 pp
Coffee Lids of Greater Old Red Falls
1 pp
Get in Where U Fit in
3 pp
Molt
5 pp
Shrine of the Monkey God
24 pp
Willem de Kooning
8 pp
Remembering the Millionaire Hobo
5 pp
The Kanibul Ball
9 pp
Get Our Your Hankies (Excerpt)
7 pp
De Hooch
17 pp
Selections from Hip Hop Family Tree
12 pp · Non-Fiction
Daisies (Excerpt)
10 pp
Rent Crisis
6 pp · Non-Fiction, Advocacy
Time to Get Paid
1 pp
Sexual Chocolate
1 pp
Women Only, No Men Allowed
1 pp
Hong Fong Chuey
1 pp
Radio Silence
2 pp
Untitled story
9 pp
2010
12 pp
In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home (Excerpt)
6 pp
Big Kids (Excerpt)
11 pp
Schlonged!
4 pp
Good Haven High
4 pp
Ranchero
12 pp
Four Untitled Pieces
8 pp
Kill Thurber
7 pp
John Wilcock, New York Years (Excerpt)
15 pp
Jeremy Meets the Forest Cow
16 pp
Test of Loyalty
13 pp
Generous Bosom Part 2 (Excerpt)
12 pp
Necessity (Excerpt)
17 pp
The Dead Father
13 pp
I Am Better Than Picasso
10 pp
Picaresque
15 pp
G.C. in Dem Bones Pt. II (Excerpt)
14 pp
Love with Family Love
1 pp
The Team for Sure
1 pp
Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (Excerpt)
7 pp · Biography

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Full credits

writer, artist, inker, colorist, letterer Gary Panter
cover pencils, inks Matthew Thurber

Reprints

↩ Reprints De Hooch #[nn] (2015), Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (A Graphic Memoir) #[nn] (2015), Big Kids #[nn] (2016), Kramers Ergot #9 (2016), Don't Come in Here #[nn] (2016), Real Deal Comix #[nn] (2016), In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home #[nn] (2020), Generous Bosom #2, Happy Hour in America #6

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