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Title:
The best American comics 2012
Summary:
Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators in graphic novels.
Contents:
X'ed out (excerpt) / The battle of Buron (from Two generals) / Scenes from an impending marriage (excerpt) / Jimbo / Are comics moronic dribble? Skull groin (from Up all night) / Kamikaze (from A public space) / Skyline Hot stuff (from The believer) / The pilot learns to fly (from Big questions) / The Golan Heights (from How to understand Israel in 60 days or less) / Blood of the virgin (excerpt) (from Crickets) / A month of ... (from the New York Times) / Special exits (excerpt) / Frank among the gut-worshippers (from Congress of the animals)

Angelina (from Paying for it) / Hibern-8 (from The believer) / Stage 6 (from H day) / Diner food (from Up all night) / The love bunglers: part four (excerpt) (from Love and rockets) / Prophets (from The believer) / Leave luck to Heaven / Red eye (from NewYorkTimes.com) / Dead soles (from The believer) / House of debt / The Irish table (from Chimo) / House of shouts (from Up all night) / Even the giants get the blues (excerpt) (from Even the Giants) / Elsewheres (from Keeping two) / Haggling (from The believer) / Money (from the New Yorker)

Comics for kids: Vacation Doctor costume (from Sergio Aragonés Funnies) / Rock, scissors, paper (from Knights of the lunch table) / Baking failure #1 (from Bake Sale) / Read a book Draw your sister a picture (from 60 ways to leave your mother (alone)) / Patrick and Big Bear (from Patrick in a teddy bear's picnic and other stories) / A button in the woods (from Zita the Spacegirl)
Physical Description:
xvii, 360 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Publication Date:
2012
ISBN:
9780547691121
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Call Number:
741.5 BEST