The Best American Comics 2019

The Best American Comics 2019
Author: Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2019
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0358067286

Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year. "The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I'm moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page."--Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today. Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.

The Best American Comics 2016

The Best American Comics 2016
Author: Roz Chast
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780544750357

Best-selling New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast picks the best graphic pieces of the year.

The Best American Comics 2017

The Best American Comics 2017
Author: Ben Katchor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2017
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0544750365

Award-winning cartoonist Ben Katchor picks the best graphic pieces of the year.

Masters of American Comics

Masters of American Comics
Author: John Carlin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 030011317X

Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

The Best American Comics 2011

The Best American Comics 2011
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0547333625

A collection of the best graphic pieces published in 2010.

Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book

Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
Author: Jordan Raphael
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613742924

Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless self-promoter, a credit hog, and a huckster, Stan Lee rose from his humble beginnings to ride the wave of the 1940s comic books boom and witness the current motion picture madness and comic industry woes. Included is a complete examination of the rise of Marvel Comics, Lee's work in the years of postwar prosperity, and his efforts in the 1960s to revitalize the medium after it had grown stale.

The Best American Comics 2007

The Best American Comics 2007
Author: Chris Ware
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9780618718764

Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2007 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
Author: Paul Gravett
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2008-08-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

Funnybooks

Funnybooks
Author: Michael Barrier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520283902

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.

Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.

Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.
Author: Tom King
Publisher: Vertigo
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-07-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401270611

Baghdad, 2003. The reign of Saddam Hussein is over. The Americans are in command. And no one is in control. Former cop turned military contractor Christopher Henry knows that better than anyone. He’s in the country to train up a new Iraqi police force, and one of his recruits has just been murdered. With civil authority in tatters and dead bodies clogging the streets, Chris is the only person in the Green Zone with any interest in finding out who killed him-and why. Chris’ inquiry brings him first to Sofia, an American-raised Iraqi who now sits on the governing council, and then to Nassir, a grizzled veteran of Saddam’s police force-and probably the last real investigator left in Baghdad. United by death but divided by conflicting loyalties, the three must help each other navigate the treacherous landscape of post-invasion Iraq in order to hunt down the killers. But are their efforts really serving justice-or a much darker agenda? Inspired by his real-life experiences as a CIA operations officer in Iraq, writer Tom King (BATMAN) teams with artist Mitch Gerads to deliver a wartime crime thriller like no other in THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON VOL. 1: BANG. BANG. BANG., collecting issues #1-6 of their groundbreaking Vertigo series.