The best American comics 2014
By: edited and introduced by Scott McCloud ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor
Series: Best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780544106000
Subjects: American literature; Comic books, strips
Description: "The Best American Comics 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 unique, stunning collection. Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) called guest editor Scott McCloud 'just about the smartest guy in comics.'"--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Great comics are not a genre :; title: Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners  -- Jaime Hernandez; title: Picnic Now!, Sickroom Reading, and The hand laundry  -- Ben Katchor; title: The hive -- (excerpt) / -- Charles Burns; title: All the marbles -- (excerpt) / -- Gilbert Hernandez; title: Translated, from the Japanese,  -- Adrian Tomine; title: High road to the schmuck seat  -- R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb; title: A 21st century still life  -- Ben Katchor -- Raising readers :; title: Drama -- (excerpt) / -- Raina Telgemeier; title: Jane, the fox and me -- (excerpt) / -- Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault -- Family tree :; title: Letting it go -- (excerpt) / -- Miriam Katin; title: RL -- (excerpt) / -- Tom Hart; title: Mom -- (excerpt) / -- Sam Sharpe; title: August 1977  -- Nina Bunjevac -- Strange adventures :; title: The mermaid in the Hudson -- (excerpt) / -- Mark Siegel; title: Saga chapter 7 -- (excerpt) / -- Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples; title: Multiple warheads : alphabet to infinity #1 -- (excerpt) / -- Brandon Graham; title: Dimensions  -- Ted May -- The book of the year is not a book :; title: Building stories -- (excerpt) / -- Chris Ware -- Testimonials :; title: March : book one -- (excerpt) / -- John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell; title: The program is morally good -- (excerpt) / -- Frank M. Young and David Lasky; title: Hip hop family tree  -- Ed Piskor -- Oh, crap-- webcomics!; title: Depression part two -- (excerpt) / -- Allie Brosh -- Even stranger adventures; title: Canadian royalty  -- Michael DeForge; title: The understanding monster-- book one -- (excerpt) / -- Theo Ellsworth -- The Kuiper Belt; title: Is there silence?, The implications of making something from nothing via the spiritual realm, and This is magic-- this is alchemy  -- Ron Regé, Jr.; title: Face it  -- C.F.; title: Bittersweet romance -- (excerpt) / -- Victor Cayro; title: Whistle while you work ... or think of death  -- Onsmith; title: Schweinhund and Howdy, his nephew Dee Dee and a friend of Howdy's nephew  -- Gerald Jablonski; title: Hyperspeed to nowhere, return to entropy -- (excerpt) / -- Lale Westvind; title: Untitled selections  -- G.W. Duncanson; title: Blue period  -- Aiden Koch; title: Ambient air -- (part II) / -- Erin Curry -- Memory boxes :; title: Cul de sac, September 17-23, 2012  -- Richard Thompson; title: Hawaii 1997 -- San Alden.