The Best American Comics 2012
When I started "RAW "magazine in the 80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children s comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic. Francoise Mouly, from the Introduction
FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragones, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.
This year with a sampler of comics for kids!
Francoise Mouly has worked as the art editor for "The New Yorke"r since 1993 and is the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press. In 1980, Mouly founded the pioneering comics anthology "RAW "with her husband, Art Spiegelman. She has been named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and in 2011 she was inducted into the Legion d Honneur, France s highest decoration.
Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novel "La Perdida," as well as two collections of stories from her series Artbabe. Matt Madden is a cartoonist best known for his book "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style." Together they are the authors of "Mastering Comics," the follow-up volume to their popular comics textbook, "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures."
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FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragones, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.
This year with a sampler of comics for kids!
Francoise Mouly has worked as the art editor for "The New Yorke"r since 1993 and is the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press. In 1980, Mouly founded the pioneering comics anthology "RAW "with her husband, Art Spiegelman. She has been named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and in 2011 she was inducted into the Legion d Honneur, France s highest decoration.
Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novel "La Perdida," as well as two collections of stories from her series Artbabe. Matt Madden is a cartoonist best known for his book "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style." Together they are the authors of "Mastering Comics," the follow-up volume to their popular comics textbook, "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures."
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Comics & Graphic NovelsAnthologies
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH360
LANGUAGEEN
artist and editor
The Best American Comics 2012
by Françoise Mouly, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden
When I started "RAW "magazine in the 80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children s comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic. Francoise Mouly, from the Introduction
FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragones, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.
This year with a sampler of comics for kids!
Francoise Mouly has worked as the art editor for "The New Yorke"r since 1993 and is the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press. In 1980, Mouly founded the pioneering comics anthology "RAW "with her husband, Art Spiegelman. She has been named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and in 2011 she was inducted into the Legion d Honneur, France s highest decoration.
Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novel "La Perdida," as well as two collections of stories from her series Artbabe. Matt Madden is a cartoonist best known for his book "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style." Together they are the authors of "Mastering Comics," the follow-up volume to their popular comics textbook, "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures."
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FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragones, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.
This year with a sampler of comics for kids!
Francoise Mouly has worked as the art editor for "The New Yorke"r since 1993 and is the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press. In 1980, Mouly founded the pioneering comics anthology "RAW "with her husband, Art Spiegelman. She has been named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and in 2011 she was inducted into the Legion d Honneur, France s highest decoration.
Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novel "La Perdida," as well as two collections of stories from her series Artbabe. Matt Madden is a cartoonist best known for his book "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style." Together they are the authors of "Mastering Comics," the follow-up volume to their popular comics textbook, "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures."
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Comics & Graphic NovelsAnthologies
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH360
LANGUAGEEN
artist and editor
