The Best American Comics 2011 (First Edition)

Alison Bechdel (editor); Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (series editors)

ISBN 10: 0547333625 / ISBN 13: 9780547333625

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2011

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine/issued without jacket. A clean tight unread copy. Smoke-free. Ships in well padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best American Comics 2011 (First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547333625
• ISBN 13: 9780547333625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Graphic Novels

About this title

Synopsis

“If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo—whether it’s in art, society, or the political world—what happens when that status quo at last gives way?
A universe of possibility opens up.”
—Alison Bechdel, from the Introduction

Featuring: Gabrielle Bell, Joe Sacco, Dash Shaw, Sabrina Jones, Chris Ware, Jillian Tamaki, Jaime Hernandez, Jeff Smith, Paul Pope, Kevin Huizenga, and others

About the Authors

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.