About this title: This cutting-edge collection is just right for fans as well as those who are new to the hobby of comics. Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, Seth, and Art Spiegelman. Older teens.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618718764ISBN:0618718761
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2007-10-10
ISBN-13:9780618718764ISBN:0618718761
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618718764ISBN:0618718761
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Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition, hardcover, fine condition. Dust jacket has one significant tear and light shelfwear at edges, a few smudges on back. read more
"I guess I need another format "shelf", as I think I said with the 2008 Best American Comics. I didn't enjoy this edition as much as I enjoyed the one edited by Lynda Barry; this anthology in general probably reveals the most about the editor's personal aesthetic than any of the other "Best American ..." collections, though each one of those shifts with the tastes of the current editor as well.
My only quibble with the Best American Comic series is that so many of the comics are taken from much longer works; it's almost as if the series started a "Best American Novel Excerpts" or "Best American Full-Length Memoir" collection and then only published a chapter. It's odd and jarring. Again, these comic/graphic collections probably serve best as a way to discover new artists and not exactly as a stand-alone representative of the best American comics/graphics of the past year."
"here's the problem i have with this collection...many of the pieces seem to end in the middle of their narrative....and i'm not even talking about the ones that are specifically marked as excerpts....instead of making me want to find and read the whole piece...if there actually is a whole piece.....it makes me not want to have anything to do with the comic....with only a few exceptions.....overall....the comics are pretty good though...."
"Got this at the library because my family was out of town this week and I wanted something easy to read in my sudden extra hours. I got this mainly because it has a long-ish story by Gilbert Hernandez.
This is a wildly uneven collection. A few were good but most weren't. Aside from the Hernandez one, there is a hilarious piece by R. and Ailne Crumb visiting their daughter at her squat in NYC. The aging counterculture hippies trying to understand their daughter's counterculture was nicely done. I really liked Jeffrey Brown's piece. I'm going to look for more of his stuff. Gary Panter is still awesome. Oh and it ends with an interesting story about a guy checking out a flooded Louisville in a homemade boat. The rest read like someone's unedited diary or -- worse -- dream journal."
"Maybe I have the wrong perspective on what this collection is about, but while some of the art in this collection is interesting and stunning, most of it is not that great and several of the stories are just incoherent. Maybe I'm just too dumb to "get" it, but most of these stories are just too weird for me to understand. Dense prose, abstract art, and at some points the art is compressed into space that is too small to read. Maybe I need to stick to super-hero comics."
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