Research Catalog

Title

The best American comics 2016 / edited and introduced by Roz Chast ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chast, Roz
• Kartalopoulos, Bill

Description

xviii, 379 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

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 .

Series Statement

The best American series, 2016

Uniform Title

Best American series.

Subject

• Comic books, strips, etc. > United States
• Graphic novels > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels.
• Graphic books.

Note

• "Best American Comics 2016 represents a selection of outstanding work published between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015." -- Page xii.

Contents

Killing and dying / Adrian Tomine -- Wendy (excerpt) / Walter Scott -- The Last Saturday (excerpt) / Christ Ware -- The Swim and Today / Anne Emond -- R. Crumb and Me / Drew Friedman -- Stroppy (excerpt) / Marc Bell -- Powdered milk, vol. 14 / Keiler Roberts -- Milk from Bumf, vol. 1 / Joe Sacco -- The Dishrack / Gabrielle Bell -- Syllabus (excerpt) / Lynda Barry -- The Hospital suite (excerpt) / John Porcellino -- All the paintings here agree / Liana Finck -- El Deafo (excerpt) / Cece Bell -- Broadside ballads / Kate Beaton -- The Corpse, the Ghost and the Hollow-Weenie (excerpt) from The Adventures of Tad Martin #6 / Casanova Frankenstein -- Fashion cat / Alex Schubert -- Bike fast, Coney Island, and Home / Sophia Zdon -- Vintage trash and Horse bones / Julia Wertz -- Here (excerpt) / Richard McGuire -- Dissident years (excerpt) from Fatherland / Nina Bunjevac -- mom / Dave Lapp -- Adult only (excerpt) / Lance Ward -- 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 -- Blanket portraits / Geneviève Elverum -- Shut your pie hole, Johnny Pinetop / Joe Ollmann -- Blinky-Jinks Playhouse / Char Esmé -- Big Rudy's cowgirls Club / Char Esmé and Lauren Poor -- Untitled / Taylor-Ruth Baldwin -- Bumps in the night (excerpt ) / Gilbert Hernandez -- Don't leave me alone / GG.

Call Number

JFE 16-13777

ISBN

• 0544750357
• 9780544750357

OCLC

932050690

Title

The best American comics 2016 / edited and introduced by Roz Chast ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The best American series, 2016

Best American series.

Added Author

Chast, Roz, editor, writer of introduction.

Kartalopoulos, Bill, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13777