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The Best American Comics 2009

The Best American Comics 2009
By Charles Burns

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Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the web to create this cutting-edge collection. Featuring the work of such luminaries as Chris Ware, KAZ, and Robert Crumb, this volume is "a genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle).

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #4985 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-10-08
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 352 pages

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About the Author

JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her series Artbabe.


MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together, they are the authors of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.


CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman�s Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to ads for Altoids. He�s illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. His eagerly awaited graphic novel Black Hole, published in 2005, received over a dozen Harvey Awards. Burns, along with several other prominent graphic artists, collaborated on Fear(s) of the Dark, an animated French horror film now touring the US. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

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My review for [...]5
If you are a fan of comics, cartooning, and all forms of American creativity, this is one of the few books that you should be sure to pick up every year.

This is an anthology of various cartoonists that is the comic versions of the short story anthologies that come out every year and generally are one of the few places where you are find great, creative, and new writing that is worth reading.

This years issue is edited by the Harvey-Award winning cartoonist Charles Burns and he does an excellent job, starting with a wonderful introduction and following with comics by a wide range of artists including Kaz, Mimi Pond, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb, Tim Hensley, Laura Park, and Koren Shadmi. Along with these great artists are many many more making up over 300 pages of excellent reading.

These anthologies are excellent because even if you read the entire thing and find only one cartoonist that you like, it is hard to think that you would have discovered that cartoonist anywhere else and now you have a newly found artist that speaks to you. This is another A+ collection and I do not see them going downhill anytime soon. Cartooning is starting a new era in what they can do and say, and this book contains a wide-range of those selections. It is worth every penny.

variety of styles4
I enjoyed the wide variety of visual and writing styles presented in this collection. However, my impression was that there were too many dark, strange, and/or enigmatic selections. I was often left searching for the point (maybe reading them in the morning rather than at night would have helped). My grade B+.