The best American comics 2016
By: edited and introduced by Roz Chast ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor
Series: The best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780544750357
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Comic books, strips; Graphic novels; Comics (Graphic works); Cartoons and comics
Other titles: American comics 2016
Description: Best American Comics 2016 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 .
Notes: "Best American Comics 2016 represents a selection of outstanding work published between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015." -- p.xii
Table of contents: title: Killing and dying  -- Adrian Tomine; title: Wendy -- (excerpt) / -- Walter Scott; title: The Last Saturday -- (excerpt) / -- Christ Ware; title: The Swim -- and; title: Today  -- Anne Emond -- R. Crumb and Me / -- Drew Friedman; title: Stroppy -- (excerpt) / -- Marc Bell; title: Powdered milk, vol. 14  -- Keiler Roberts; title: Milk -- from Bumf, vol. 1 / Joe Sacco; title: The Dishrack  -- Gabrielle Bell; title: Syllabus -- (excerpt) / -- Lynda Barry; title: The Hospital suite -- (excerpt) / -- John Porcellino; title: All the paintings here agree  -- Liana Finck; title: El Deafo -- (excerpt) / -- Cece Bell; title: Broadside ballads  -- Kate Beaton; title: The Corpse, the Ghost and the Hollow-Weenie -- (excerpt) from The Adventures of Tad Martin #6 / -- Casanova Frankenstein; title: Fashion cat  -- Alex Schubert; title: Bike fast, Coney Island, and Home  -- Sophia Zdon; title: Vintage trash and Horse bones  -- Julia Wertz; title: Here -- (excerpt) / -- Richard McGuire; title: Dissident years -- (excerpt) from Fatherland / -- Nina Bunjevac; title: mom  -- Dave Lapp; title: Adult only -- (excerpt) / -- Lance Ward; title: The Danish modern borer, the Latest laugh, The Needleless garment extruder, Illness in the window, The Vontsel Institute, and The Brazen Bull Corporation  -- Ben Katchor; title: Blanket portraits  -- Geneviève Elverum; title: Shut your pie hole, Johnny Pinetop  -- Joe Ollmann; title: Blinky-Jinks Playhouse  -- Char Esmé; title: Big Rudy's cowgirls Club  -- Char Esmé and Lauren Poor; title: Untitled  -- Taylor-Ruth Baldwin; title: Bumps in the night -- (excerpt ) / -- Gilbert Hernandez; title: Don't leave me alone -- GG.