About the Book
This newest addition to the Best American series—“a genuine salute to comics” (Houston Chronicle)—returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Guest editor Chris Ware and series editor Anne Elizabeth Moore have chosen thirty-nine of the best stories, culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, to create a cutting-edge collection “perfect for newbies as well as fans” (San Diego Union-Tribune).
“Even a casual flip-through of the pages of this book will demonstrate a highly individual approach by each and every artist, all with the aim of getting at something new or, more precisely, real. I also would hope that any good annual anthology should have a sort of ‘desert island’ condensation to it … even if every single comic produced between August 2005 and August 2006 suddenly and mysteriously vaporized, this book should still at least hint at what was most interesting, honest, and revealing to be published during the last year.”
—Chris Ware, from the Introduction