The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Alison Bechdel, creator of the cult comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of Fun Home, has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamplet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and webcomics to create this cutting-edge collection. With entries from Joe Sacco, Jeff Smith, and Dash Shaw, this edtion delivers "a thrilling and varied journey from start to finish" (Publishers Weekly).

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Edited by Alison Bechdel, with Jessica Abel & Matt Madden

The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Jeff Smith, creater of the classic comic Bone, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville, has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and web comics to create this cutting-edge collection.

* ALISON BECHDEL Mirror (Excerpt) FROM Are you my Mother?
* BRANDON GRAHAM The Speaker FROM Dark Horse Presents
* JESSE JACOBS The Divine Manifestation of a Singular Impulse FROM By This Shall You Know Him
* SAM ALDEN Turn Back (Excerpt) The Haunter FROM Studygroupcomics.com
* MICHAEL DEFORGE Manananggal FROM Whatthingsdo.com
* SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN The Good Wife
* CRAIG THOMPSON 70 Nights of Pleasure (Excerpt) FROM Habibi
* COLEEN DORAN & DEREK MCCULLOUGH, WITH JOSÉ VILLARRUBIA The Story of Gráinne Ní Mháille (Excerpt) from Gone to Amerikay
* JAMES KOCHALKA, Strips FROM American Elf
* JORGE AGUIRRE AND RAFAEL ROSADO You Lied to Us! (Excerpt) FROM Giants, Beware!
* EVAN DORKIN AND JILL THOMPSON Story Time FROM Dark Horse Presents
* FAITH ERIN HICKS Raiders (Excerpt) FROM Friends with Boys
* LEELA CORMAN 1912 (Excerpt) FROM Unterzakhn
* SAMMY HARKHAM A Husband and Wife FROM Kramers Ergo
* GRANT SNIDER Four Comics FROM Incidentalcomics.com
* ELEANOR DAVIS Nita Goes Home FROM MOME
* TONY PURYEAR Concrete Park (Chapter 1) FROM Dark Horse Presents
* MALACHI WARD Top Five FROM Studygroupcomics.com
* DERF BACKDERF The Strange Boy (Excerpt) FROM My Friend Dahmer
* TERRY MOORE A Killer's Surprise (Excerpt) FROM Rachel Rising
* LAURA PARK George FROM MOME
* KATE BEATON Velocipede FROM Hark! A Vagrant
* EVAN DORKIN Fun Strips FROM Dark Horse Presents
* JENNIFER HAYDEN Saints in the Store FROM Underwire
* MICHAEL KUPPERMAN Scary Bath Stories FROM Tales Designed to Thrizzle
* GABRIELLE BELL Cody FROM Kramers Ergot
* VANESSA DAVIS In the Rough FROM Tablet
* JEREMY SORESE, Love Me Forever! Oh! Oh! Oh! FROM Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage
* JOSEPH LAMBERT Discipline (Excerpt) FROM Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
* PAUL POPE 1969 FROM Dark Horse Presents

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Fresh off the success of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, 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" (The Comics Journal).

* ADRIAN TOMINE Killing and Dying
* WALTER SCOTT Wendy (Excerpt)
* DREW FRIEDMAN R. Crumb and Me
* MARC BELL STROPPY (Excerpt)
* JOE SACCO Milk FROM Bumf Vol. 1
* ANNE EMOND The Swim
* ANNE EMOND Today
* CHRIS WARE The Last Saturday (Excerpt)
* KEILER ROBERTS Powdered Milk vol. 14
* GABRIELLE BELL The Dishrack
* LYNDA BARRY Syllabus (Excerpt)
* JOHN PORCELLINO The Hospital Suite (Excerpt)
* LIANA FINCK All the Paintings Here Agree
* CECE BELL El Deafo (Excerpt)
* KATE BEATON Broadside Ballads
* CASSANOVA FRANKENSTEIN The Corpse, the Ghost and the Hollow-Weenie (Excerpt) FROM The Adventures of TAD MARTIN #6
* ALEX SCHUBERT Fashion Cat
* SOPHIA ZDON Bike Fast, Coney Island, AND Home
* RICHARD MCGUIRE Here (Excerpt)
* JULIA WERTZ Vintage Trash and Horse Bones
* NINA BUNJEVAC Dissident Years (Excerpt) FROM Fatherland
* DAVE LAPP mom
* LANCE WARD Adults Only (Excerpt)
* BEN KATCHOR The Danish Modern Borer, The Latest Laugh, The Needleless Garment Extruder, Illness in the Window, The Vontsel Institute, AND The Brazen Bull Corporation
* GENEVIÈVE ELVERUM Blanket Portraits
* JOE OLLMANN Shut Your Pie Hole, Johnny Pinetop
* TAYLOR-RUTH BALDWIN Untitled
* CHAR ESMÉ Blinky-Jinks Playhouse
* CHAR ESMÉ AND LAUREN POOR Big Rudy's Cowgirls Club
* GILBERT HERNANDEZ Bumperhead (Excerpt)
* GG Don't Leave Me Alone

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Ichiro lives in New York City with his Japanese mother. His father, an American soldier, was killed in Iraq. Now, Ichi's mom has decided they should move back to Japan to live with Ichi's grandfather. Grandfather becomes Ichi's tour guide, taking him to temples as well as the Hiroshima Peace Park, where Ichi starts to question the nature of war. After a supernatural encounter with the gods and creatures of Japanese mythology, Ichi must face his fears if he is to get back home. In doing so, he learns about the nature of man, of gods, and of war.

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Like her acclaimed Gemma Bovery, Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe is a funny and wise original novel in graphic form, with a delightfully sly nod to a literary classic as well as to contemporary mores. An aspiring American novelist, Glen Larson, is returning to a crime writer's retreat in the English countryside, run by long-suffering Beth Hardiman and her husband, Nicholas, a charismatic detective novelist. Into their midst arrives newspaper columnist Tamara Drewe, whose recent nose job has given her a newfound confidence. Aware of her powers over men, Tamara little suspects that local teens Casey and Jody keep tabs on her every move, including her torrid affair with Nicholas. Snooping in Tamara's house, Casey and Jody soon begin sending e-mails from her computer - with unexpectedly dark consequences.

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