Research Catalog

Title

The best American comics 2017 / edited and introduced by Ben Katchor ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

Publication

• Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Katchor, Ben
• Kartalopoulos, Bill

Description

xix, 377 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

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, in galleries, minicomics, and the web.

Series Statement

The best American series

Uniform Title

Best American series.

Subjects

• Comic books, strips, etc > United States
• Comics (Graphic works)
• United States
• Graphic novels > United States

Genre/Form

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels.

Note

• "Notable comics from September 1, 2015, to August 31, 2016" -- Page vi.

Contents

The future of art 25 years hence / Gary Panter -- Communications Workers of America and coffee lids of Greater Old Red Falls / Dan Zettwoch -- Get in where u fit in and molt / Ben Duncan -- Shrine of the monkey God / Kim Deitch -- Willem de Kooning (Geniuses are nothing if not complicated in their methods) / Deb Sokolow -- Remembering the millionaire hobo / Tim Lane -- The Kanibul ball / Lale Westvind -- Get out your hankies (excerpt) from July Diary 2016 / Gabrielle Bell -- De Hooch / John Hankiewicz -- Selections from Hip Hop family tree / Ed Piskor -- Daisies (excerpt) from Swampson 3 / Björn Miner -- Rent crisis / Joe Sacco -- Time to get paid, sexual chocolate, women only, no men allowed, and Hong Fong Chuey / Gerone Spruill -- Radio silence / Grant Reynolds -- Untitled / Bailey Jean Thomas - 2010 / Josh Bayer -- In pieces: someplace which I call home (excerpt) / Kurt Ankeny -- Big kids (excerpt) / Michael Deforge -- Schlonged! / Eli Valley -- Good haven high / Oscar Azmitia -- Ranchero / Mike Taylor -- Four untitled pieces / William Tyler -- Kill Thurber / Matthew Thurber -- John Wilcock, New York years (excerpt) / Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall -- Jeremy meets the forest cow / Sienna Cittadino -- Test of loyalty / Sam Alden -- Generous bosom part 2 (wxcerpt) / Conor Stechschulte -- Necessity (excerpt) from Don't come in here / Patrick Kyle -- The dead father / Sami Alwani -- I am better than Picasso from Muhammad Ali series / Dapper Bruce Lafitte -- Picaresque / Laura Pallmall -- G.C. in "Dem bones pt. II" (excerpt) from Real deal comix / Lawrence D. Hubbard -- Love with family love and The team for sure / Larry Randolph -- Invisible ink: my mother's secret love affair with a famous cartoonist (excerpts) / Bill Griffith.

Call Number

JFE 18-212

ISBN

• 9780544750364
• 0544750365

OCLC

1005139167

Title

The best American comics 2017 / edited and introduced by Ben Katchor ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.

Publisher

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The best American series

Best American series.

Added Author

Katchor, Ben, editor.

Kartalopoulos, Bill, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-212