The Best American Comics 2015

10 best books like The Best American Comics 2015 (Jonathan Lethem): Year of the Monkey, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Frogcatchers, Clyde Fans, Safari Honeymoon, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, My Boyfriend Is a Bear, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2

Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
AuthorEd Brubaker
ISBN1534308466
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.

Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...
Frogcatchers
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1982107375
Experience a surreal descent into one man’s psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, “the Stephen King of comics” (Maclean’s).

A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he...
Clyde Fans
AuthorSeth
ISBN1770463577
A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one’s sanity

Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes,...
Safari Honeymoon
AuthorJesse Jacobs
ISBN1927668042
Looking for the ultimate honeymoon experience, a newly married couple hire a guide to take them to a truly exotic location, one teeming with strange life forms and best described as an unimaginably alien version of a jungle. While the reader immediately realizes that the unfathomable flora and fauna...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0224063979
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
My Boyfriend Is a Bear
AuthorPamela Ribon
ISBN1620104873
A story of girl meets bear.

Nora has bad luck with men. When she meets an (actual) bear on a hike in the Los Angeles hills, he turns out to be the best romantic partner she’s ever had! He’s considerate, he’s sweet, he takes care of her. But he’s a bear, and winning over her friends and family...
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
AuthorSeth
An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.

In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken--one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his...
AuthorIvan Brunetti
ISBN0300111703
Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a “modern” sensibility. As with Chris Ware’s selections for his best-selling McSweeney’s anthology,...
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...
Giant Days: Early Registration
AuthorJohn Allison
ISBN1684152658
Flashback to freshman year with Esther, Susan and Daisy to see how they first met and became the best of friends, in these bonus Giant Days stories.

Take a trip through the past in these early Giant Days stories, and discover the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan’s friendship as they embark...
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
AuthorBen Passmore
ISBN1945509201
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about...
Killing and Dying: Stories
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1770462090
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." —Wired

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes...
Bad Weekend
AuthorEd Brubaker
ISBN1534314407
Just in time for Convention Season, the ultimate comic con crime tale!

Comics won't just break your heart.

Comics will just kill you.

Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting to receive a lifetime...
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel
AuthorAnya Ulinich
ISBN0143125249
*A New York Times Notable Book*

“Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists.”
—Gary Shteyngart

Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of “grown-up” dating in this darkly...
On Loving Women
AuthorDiane Obomsawin
"On Loving Women is in turns wistful, sexy, goofy, bittersweet, frank, and adorable. Diane Obomsawin's deceptively simple lifework and straightforward writing style capture the breathless sweetness of holding another girl's hand for the first time, and the happy, lusty intimacy of a virginity-ending,...
What I Hate: From A to Z
AuthorRoz Chast
ISBN1608196895
The pages of the New Yorker are hallowed ground for cartoonists, and for the last thirty years, Roz Chast has helped set the magazine's cartooning standard, while creating work that is unmistakably her own- characterized by her shaggy lines, an ecstatic way with words, and her characters' histrionic...
Dr. Seuss from Then to Now
AuthorMary Stofflet
ISBN0394892682
This is an informational text about the works of Dr. Suess. It is a great resource to reference the author's work behind the scenes. Dr. Suess was an author that not only became well known through his books, but through television as well. This book shares information on over 40 books that the author has...
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