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The Best American Comics 2013

10 best books like The Best American Comics 2013 (Jeff Smith): The Man Who Grew His Beard, The Best American Comics 2010, Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, The Arctic Marauder, Grandville Bête Noire, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, The Hidden, The Best American Comics 2009, The Best American Comics 2011

The Man Who Grew His Beard
AuthorOlivier Schrauwen
ISBN1606994468
The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s first American book, having staked a reputation over the last decade as one of Europe’s most talented storytellers. It collects seven short stories, each a headspinning display of craft and storytelling that mixes early twentieth-century...
The Best American Comics 2010
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN0547241771
The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Neil Gaiman—one of the top writers in modern comics and the award-winning author of novels and children’s books—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics,...
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
AuthorTom Devlin
North America's pioneering comics publisher celebrates its quarter-century with new and rare archival comics; essays from Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, and more.

Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels is an eight hundred-page...
The Arctic Marauder
AuthorJacques Tardi
ISBN1606994352
In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque “retro-sci-fi” yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut...
Grandville Bête Noire
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1595828907
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
AuthorRuss Kick
ISBN1609803809
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0618517456
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
The Hidden
AuthorRichard Sala
ISBN1606993860
This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...
The Best American Comics 2009
AuthorCharles Burns
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
The Best American Comics 2011
AuthorAlison Bechdel
ISBN0547333625
“If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo—whether it’s in art, society, or the political world—what happens when that status quo at last gives way?
A universe of possibility opens up.”
—Alison Bechdel, from the Introduction


Featuring: Gabrielle...
The Best American Comics 2008
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN0618989765
This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right--...
The Best American Comics 2007
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0618718761
While The Best American Comics of 2006 had an admittedly liberal-bias (not so much a problem for me) the comics ran the gamut from conventional to wildly experimental narrative in a variety of artistic forms, so nebulous that it was difficult to categorize some of them as styles. There was fiction and...
The Best American Comics 2012
AuthorFrançoise Mouly
ISBN0547691122
“When I started RAW magazine in the ’80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children’s comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic.”—Françoise Mouly, from the Introduction

FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown,...
The Best American Comics 2006
AuthorHarvey Pekar
ISBN0618718745
The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web.

Contributors...
The Best American Comics 2016
AuthorRoz Chast
ISBN0544750357
“There’s something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it’s proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It’s alive!”
–Roz Chast, from the Introduction
 
FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton,...
The Best American Travel Writing 2010
AuthorBill Buford
ISBN0547333358
Hit and miss... I definitely enjoyed some stories quite a bit, but skimmed or skipped others. I'm always afraid reading travel books is going to further stoke my wanderlust (more out of control than it already is, anyway) but amusingly it often has the opposite effect, especially when I read stories...
The Best American Comics 2014
AuthorScott McCloud
ISBN0544106008
“It’s the perfect book to pick up to restore your faith in comics or help show infinite diversity in infinite combinations on display on paper using the world’s greatest artform.” — Comics Bulletin

The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming...
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2
AuthorIvan Brunetti
ISBN0300126719
Ivan Brunetti returns with a new selection of 20th and 21st-century comic creations by some of the most original artists in the medium

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan...
The Best American Comics 2015
AuthorJonathan Lethem
ISBN0544107705
“As I know well from my own field, true vitality consists of stuff that’s further off the radar of general acclaim. The influx of raw arrivals. The deep cuts.” —Jonathan Lethem, from the Introduction
 
Featuring Gabrielle Bell, Mat Brinkman, Roz Chast, Anya Davidson, Eleanor...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
AuthorCarl Hiaasen
ISBN0618812652
The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.

Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006
AuthorScott Turow
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow

Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002
AuthorJames Ellroy
ISBN0618124934
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
AuthorMichael Connelly
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
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