“There’s something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it’s proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It’s alive!”
–Roz Chast, from the Introduction
FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others
Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books. Her memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist.
Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor, is a comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches courses about comics at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information please visit: on-panel.com.
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- ISBN: 9780544750548
- File size: 6 KB
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- English
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October 15, 2016
It's been 10 years since the launch of this annual series, and though this installment, guest edited by New Yorker mainstay Chast, doesn't break any new ground in its presentation, that's all well and good, since this solid framework does what it does best: showcase a rich variety of comics. Chast selects pieces from unfamiliar and familiar names, from both print and the web, and presents them in no particular order. They're all great for different reasons, like Liana Finck's All the Paintings Here Agree, which movingly evokes the calm of a familiar art museum in the wake of personal turmoil, with nothing but speech balloons and reproductions of paintings, or John Porcellino's sparely drawn account of preparing for surgery, excerpted from his book The Hospital Suite (2014). Visually striking standouts include Drew Freidman's detailed, almost hyperrealistic caricatures and Genevieve Elverum's beautiful compositions of bundled blankets in a meditation on hospitality and home. Far from being the final word on comics, this series acts as a springboard, introducing more readers to the rich variety in the field.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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