Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Phoebe Gloeckner, author of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.
Phoebe Gloeckner, author of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender, beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America" (Salon), will select this year's best graphic pieces. The Best American Comics 2018 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Synopsis
"I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to
The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today.
Featuring GABRIELLE BELL - TARA BOOTH - GEOF DARROW - GUY DELISLE - EMIL FERRIS - JULIA GFR RER - SARAH GLIDDEN - SIMON HANSELMANN - JAIME HERNANDEZ - JULIA JACQUETTE - GARY PANTER - ARIEL SCHRAG, and others