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"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

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