You couldn’t ask for a more provocative one-stop sampler of excellent contemporary comicsĢ019 includes a bounty of distinctive work, and, unusually for this series, few pieces I would have omitted in favor of something else (even those are provocative additions to the mix).
And I am sure I will be teaching this latest one, 2019, which is a particularly well-curated and beautifully designed edition. I’ve taught two of them ( Barry’s 2008 volume was a particular fave that I taught again and again, well after 2008). The series, one of many Best American samplers published by HMH, has been published annually since 2006, so fourteen volumes have appeared to date (under three different series editors or teams). The series’ remit is to provide “a selection of outstanding North American work” (in this case, published between September 1, 2017, and August 31, 2018).
However, its editors have included great writers about childhood, such as Lynda Barry and Neil Gaiman, and great makers of comics for young readers, among them Jeff Smith and this year’s editor, Jillian Tamaki. The Best American Comics series does not aim at young readers, and typically includes frankly adult content.
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