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""Every last page is worth a look."" --Bustle Ben Katchor, ""the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip"" (New York Times Book Review), selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2017 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make sure ""the Best American Comics brand is poised to enjoy a killer second decade"" (Bookgasm).

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Editors Ben Katchor and Bill Kartalopoulos are this year's team for The Best American Comics 2017, which pulls together a smorgasbord of great talent in an anthology format and provides a superb starting point for adult readers to experience the breadth and depth of what graphic novels can offer. --Library Journal This twelfth volume in the annual Best American Comics...casts a wide net, encompassing fiction and nonfiction graphic books, work in magazines, self-published minicomics, and online comics... the bulk of [which] are from younger and lesser-known creators that are producing boldly idiosyncratic work...[and] grants exposure to a cadre of challenging artists who are likely to be unknown to even the most avid comics fan. --Booklist

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BEN KATCHOR, guest editor, is the cartoonist of Hand-Drying in America; The Jew of New York;Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District; and The Cardboard Valise. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. BILL KARTALOPOULOS is a comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches comics history at the School of Visual Arts.

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