Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A
Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time,
Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, People, USA Today, Los
Angeles Times, Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle, among
others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life--queer
and otherwise--considered "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the
comics genre, period." (Ms.) Bechdel is guest editor of Best
American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's,
Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.
JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida. MATT
MADDEN is a cartoonist best known for his book 99 Ways to Tell a
Story: Exercises in Style. Together, Abel and Madden are the
authors of Mastering Comics and Drawing Words and Writing
Pictures.
MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author of 99 Ways to Tell a
Story: Exercises in Style. Together, they are the authors of
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.
"A rich selection of excellent graphic literature in this
collection of 26 stories that span the heartbreaking to the
hilarious to the just plain oddball."
--USA Today"This year's guest selector, Bechdel, opens with a
terrific introduction that digs into the sense of awe felt by many
underground vets on comicdom's recent hyperdevelopment... The picks
are a typical mix of heavy hitters in top form (Chris Ware, Joe
Sacco, Jaime Hernandez, Jeff Smith), younger art-comics darlings
(Dash Shaw, Kevin Huizenga), and a nice smattering of talented
newcomers."
--Booklist"Fun Home creator Bechdel selects 27 pieces for this
year's Best American anthology, and though a reader can trace her
sensibility in some of the entries . . . it's a pleasure to see
many odd, gritty selections . . . This year's Best American is a
handsome anthology with more than a few welcome surprises."
--Publishers Weekly"Another annual cornucopia of graphic narrative
(and comic strips). Whether comics were ever striving for cultural
legitimacy, they are now struggling with it--even resisting
it--though this year's collection suggests that the range of
subject, tone and technique continues to expand. Perhaps no other
graphic memoirist has achieved greater acclaim than this year's
guest editor Bechdel . . . While much of this work is at the
cutting edge of contemporary culture, there is a historical
perspective to some of the more ambitious pieces . . .The extended,
wordless visual epiphany in 'Winter' is stunning . . . David Lasky
shows the greatest range . . . Chris Ware's inevitable selection is
brilliant. The state of an art that has yet to reach stasis."
--Kirkus Reviews
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