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The Best American Comics 2011 (2011)

by Alison Bechdel(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547333625 (ISBN13: 9780547333625)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: I did enjoy this anthology, especially Alison Bechdel's introduction which added some interesting context and color commentary to the selections. I thought that the pieces were well chosen and I particularly enjoyed Chris Ware's piece. He does such an incredible job of bringing subtle pathos into graphic novels and he is one of the few current artists who uses the full power of interesting layouts and different drawing styles to make an intense emotional impact that would be impossible to achieve in any other form. On the other hand, I feel like trying to anthologize full length graphic novels in brief sections is kind of weird? This is cool as kind of a sampler if you don't follow comics all that closely and it did introduce me to a couple people I hadn't read, but some o... moref the chops felt a bit awkward.
review 2: This book is a bit of a tease (as are many Best of collections) but it gave me some pointers on who I want to read next. An excellent introduction from Alison Bechdel, of course. So now I've got to look out for Kevin Mutch (zombies!), Gabby Schulz (herpes!), Angie Wang (psychedelic drawings!), Dash Shaw (botany professor drug fiend poet!), Joey Alison Sayers (cat!), Sabrina Jones (NYC!, Julia Gförer (beautiful demonic illustrations!), Brendan Leach (again beautiful pterodactyl illos!) Also it included some of my old favourites including Gabrielle Bell, Jillian Tamaki and Kate Beaton. less

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