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Informationen zum Autor BILL KARTALOPOULOS is the publisher/editor of Rebus Books and the programming coordinator for SPX: The Small Press Expo. He was a cofounder and the programming director for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), a contributing editor for Print magazine , and has worked as an assistant to Art Spiegelman for several years. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Klappentext "I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. Featuring GABRIELLE BELL • TARA BOOTH • GEOF DARROW • GUY DELISLE • EMIL FERRIS • JULIA GFRÖRER • SARAH GLIDDEN • SIMON HANSELMANN • JAIME HERNANDEZ • JULIA JACQUETTE • GARY PANTER • ARIEL SCHRAG, and others Zusammenfassung “I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language,” writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018 . This year’s collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. Featuring GABRIELLE BELL • TARA BOOTH • GEOF DARROW • GUY DELISLE • EMIL FERRIS • JULIA GFRÖRER • SARAH GLIDDEN • SIMON HANSELMANN • JAIME HERNANDEZ • JULIA JACQUETTE • GARY PANTER • ARIEL SCHRAG, and others
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BAC 2016 "Female artists and slice-of-life tales make up the best of the Best comics of the year on Roz Chast's watch....There's quite a bit of entertaining and emotional heft...But there's some time for fun, too." -USA TODAY "Every piece in this anthology is worthy of attention." -COMICS ALTERNATIVE "The incomparable Roz Chast puts her unique, delightful stamp on this book right up front...She's rounded up a delicious diversity of talent, particularly women...the printing quality is excellent. The color is rich and the transitions are delicate."- Etelka Lehoczky, NPR BAC 2015 "Not only does Jonathan Lethem choose some of the best stuff in the comics medium, he goes one better and artfully introduces this year's collection...Lethem has picked some super bits of storytelling."- USA Today "The Best American Comics 2015 is a cartoon museum in the reader's hands."- New York Daily News "[B]rimming with surprises and discoveries."- Bookgasm
