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

Contributor(s): Series: Best American seriesPublisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xix, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544750364
  • 0544750365
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.56973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6726 .B46 2018
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 (Excerpt) / 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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Comics & Graphic Novels Comics & Graphic Novels NMC Library Comics/Graphic Novels Shelf BEST 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33039001447407

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

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 (Excerpt) / 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.

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.

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