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The Best American Comics 2009 (2009)

by Charles Burns(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

061898965X (ISBN13: 9780618989652)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: A good overview of the year in comics. An update on some of my favorite writers and artists (including the long-silent Daniel Clowes with the excellent, understated "Justin M. Damiano" and Chris Ware with "Jordan W. Lint") as well as an introduction to unfamiliar ones (Adrian Tomine, Al Columbia) and a refreshing re-introduction to a couple I'd set aside (Art Spiegelman and R. Crumb). Burns' surrealist graphic novel "Black Hole" stands as one of the finest examples of a still-fledgling genre and makes him a uniquely qualified editor. There were several strips here I didn't care for, but slogging through these only makes it that much more thrilling when you discover a gem like Jason Lutes' "Berlin".
review 2: It's an anthology, so it's not going to be perfect, b... moreut it's damn good. This is the first year that the my favorite players from Picture Box get rep'd (C.F., Dash Shaw-- I think it's his first time in here?), but there's a couple comics in here that I didn't like at all (Tony Millionaire, I still don't like Aline Kominsky-Crumb). This is also the first year that I was already familiar with/had read maybe 1/3 of the content, since I've been keeping up with Mome, Love & Rockets, and Picture Box stuff. There are also gems in here that I wasn't formerly familiar with, but nothing brand new in a mind-blowing manner. less

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