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The Best American Comics 2015
Jonathan Lethem, Guest Editor
Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor

Table of Contents

MOM AND DAD

ROZ CHAST
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Excerpt)

JULES FEIFFER
Kill My Mother (Excerpt)

SUPERHEROES DÉTOURNED

JOSH BAYER
Theth (Excerpt)

R. SIKORYAK
Sadistic Comics

DIANE OBOMSAWIN
Mathilde's Story from On Loving Women

BEN DUNCAN
Blane Throttle (Excerpt)

STORYTELLERS

FAREL DALRYMPLE
The Wrenchies (Excerpt)

ANDERS NILSEN
Prometheus

JULIA GFRÖRER
Palm Ash

MEGAN KELSO
The Good Witch, 1947

VOICES

ELEANOR DAVIS
No Tears, No Sorrow

ANDY BURKHOLDER
Pretty Smart

GABRIELLE BELL
The Colombia Diaries, Sept 14—16 (Excerpt)

YOU MIGHT EVEN HANG THEM ON YOUR WALL

RAYMOND PETTIBON
No Title (I Was Fumbling), No Title (The Credits Rolled), and No Title (As We Can)

HENRIETTE VALIUM
Lâcher de Chiens

RON REGÉ, JR.
Pythagoras

DAVID SANDLIN
76 Manifestations of American Destiny (Excerpt)

MAT BRINKMAN
Cretin Keep On Creep'n Creek

ROSAIRE APPEL
briefly, before dawn

BIOPICS AND HISTORICAL FICTIONS

ED PISKOR
selections from Hip Hop Family Tree

PETER BAGGE
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story (Excerpt)

JOE SACCO
The Great War (Excerpt)

WORKING THE CUTE NERVE

JIM WOODRING
FRAN (Excerpt)

COLE CLOSSER
Little Tommy Lost: Book One (Excerpt)

ALABASTER
Mimi and the Wolves (Excerpt)

JESSE JACOBS
Pockets of Temporal Disruptions (Excerpt) from Safari Honeymoon

ADAM BUTTRICK
Misliving Amended

RAGING HER-MOANS

ANYA ULINICH
My Year of Unreasonable Grief (Part Four), (Excerpt) from Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel

GINA WYNBRANDT
Someone Please Have Sex With Me

ESTHER PEARL WATSON
After School (Excerpt) from Unlovable, Vol. 3

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

MATTHEW THURBER
INFOMANIACS (Excerpt)

NOEL FREIBERT
Cross Delivery, Screw Style, How did you get in the hole? The Pen, and We Can't Sleep from the hole

BLAISE LARMEE
Comets Comets

A. DEGEN
Crime Chime Noir

BRAINWORMS

ANYA DAVIDSON
No Class (Excerpt) from School Spirits

KEVIN HOOYMAN
Net Gain, Swiping at Branches, and The Perfect Match

ERIK NEBEL
Behold the Sexy Man! from Well Come

As Series Editor of The Best American Comics, it is my job to attempt to see as many of each year's most interesting comics as I can. The majority of these arrive as submissions through our public postal address (below). Others I find by attending comics festivals, consulting with colleagues, reaching out individually to artists and publishers, visiting comic books stores, endlessly scanning the internet, and generally keeping my antenna up at all times. After nearly a year of looking and reading, I forward to each year's Guest Editor a selection of more than one hundred outstanding works. From this pool of material, the Guest Editor selects the pieces that will appear in each year's Best American Comics (while retaining, as well, the latitude to bring in some work they may have discovered independently).

On the subject of our process, I cannot urge any artist or publisher strongly enough to submit work to Best American Comics. We have a completely open submission process, and all work that is submitted will be considered. Please send work, labeled with contact information and date of publication, to:

Bill Kartalopoulos
Series Editor
The Best American Comics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
3 Park Avenue, 19th floor
New York, NY 10016

We feel very strongly about the material selected to appear in Best American Comics and are excited to share these works with a broader audience. But we also acknowledge that this is but one carefully considered selection of the vast body of great work published in any given year.

In addition to reprinting a highly selective body of outstanding work, each volume of The Best American Comics also includes a lengthy list of Notable Comics selected by the Series Editor to more fully indicate the breadth and quality of the field.

In the column to the left you'll find the Table of Contents for The Best American Comics 2015, and below I have reproduced this year's list of Notable Comics. Clicking on the author's name will take you directly to that artist's website. Clicking on the book cover or title will, in most cases, take you to a site where you can find the indicated work. These comics are all well worth your time if you have enjoyed The Best American Comics 2015

PRESS

Publishers Weekly coverage

Publishers Weekly review

USA Today review

Shelf Awareness review

Jonathan Lethem interview in The Comics Journal

New York Daily News review

The Awesomer coverage

Bookgasm review

Library Journal review

Just Indie Comics review (Italian)

Comics Grinder review

Comics Grinder interview with Jonathan Lethem

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin coverage

Notable Comics
September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014
Selected by Bill Kartalopoulos

	CHRISTOPHER ADAMS Yule Log.
	SAM ALDEN Anime. It Never Happened Again.
	T. EDWARD BAK Island of Memory.
	TAYLOR-RUTH BALDWIN Hanging Rock Comics. thisishangingrockcomics.tumblr.com
	KATE BEATON Ducks. beatonna.tumblr.com/post/81993262830/here-is-a-sketch-comic-i-made -called-ducks-in
	DREW BECKMEYER Everything Unseen #4: Parts 8 & 9.
	BRIAN BLOMERTH Hypermaze.
	ANNA BONGIOVANNI Out of Hollow Water.
	STEVE BRODNER Tonkin Ghosts. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tonkin-gulf-incident-20140801-photogallery.html
	ELIJAH BRUBAKER Reich #11.
	JULIEN CECCALDI Coquelicot Moment. Mould Map #3.
	SEYMOUR CHWAST A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
	CHRIS CILLA The Debt and the Damages. Rotland Dreadfuls #8.
	MAX CLOTFELTER Shame Train. Despair, vol. 2.
	DAVID COLLIER Downtown Sugar Shack. Descant 164.
	JORDAN CRANE Untitled. Monster 2013, vol. 3.
	DAME DARCY Voyage of the Temptress. damedarcy.com/web-comix
	GEOFF DARROW Shaolin Cowboy #1-4.
	CLAUDIA DÁVILA "Like a Sparrow." Taddle Creek #33.
	MIKE DAWSON Angie Bongiolatti.
	ANDY DOUGLAS DAY Miss Hennipin.
	JULIE DELPORTE Everywhere Antennas.
	KRYSTAL DIFRONZO Saint's Love.
	STEVE DITKO #9 Teen and #20.
	SARA DRAKE Tipu's Tiger.
	NICK DRNASO The Grassy Knoll.
	DENNIS EICHHORN and VARIOUS Real Good Stuff #1 & 2.
	INÉS ESTRADA CS.
	C.F. Untitled. Mould Map #3.
	EDIE FAKE Night Taps. Believed Behavior, Season One.
	SOPHIE FRANZ Untitled. Barrio Mothers.
	RENÉE FRENCH Hagelbarger and That Nightmare Goat.
	GG Semi-Vivi. ohgigue.tumblr.com/post/95116930421/semi-vivi-by-gg-made-for-the-comics-workbook
	SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN Mother. Pitchfork Review #1.
	CARLOS GONZALEZ Test Tube #1 & 2.
	V. A. GRAHAM & J. A. EISENHOWER Scaffold #3.
	JOHN HANKIEWICZ The Intermission Festival. Ink Brick #1.
	GILBERT HERNANDEZ Maria M.: Book One.
	JAIME HERNANDEZ Stories in Love and Rockets: New Stories #6.
	CATHY G. JOHNSON "Rabbit." Happiness #4
	BEN KATCHOR Comics from Metropolis Magazine.
	KEREN KATZ A Small Fire in the National Library. Fire Theater.
	AIDAN KOCH Configurations. www.aidankoch.com/index.php?/special-project/configurations
	ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB Of What Use Is an Old Bunch? Critical Inquiry, Spring 2014.
	PATRICK KYLE New Comics #3.
	JESSE LUCAS Cash. jesselucas.com/tagged/cash/chrono
	NICK MAANDAG Facility Integrity.
	MELISSA MENDES Joey.
	DREW MILLER Orbiter's Prism.
	CORINNE MUCHA Get Over It!
	KRIS MUKAI Commuter.
	ROMAN MURADOV Picnic Ruined.
	JASON MURPHY Me Nut Nut Nut #2.
	JONNY NEGRON Bitch of a Bitch. www.vice.com/read/bitch-of-a-bitch
	MARÉ ODOMO Internet Comics #2.
	JASON OVERBY Permission Phase. abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2014/02/permission-phase.html
	JOHN PHAM Epoxy #4.
	DAVID PLUNKERT Heroical #1.
	JOHN PORCELLINO King-Cat #74.
	PROLE.INFO Abolish Work.
	JESSE REKLAW Lessoned. Couch Tag.
	KEILER ROBERTS Powdered Milk #13.
	YUMI SAKUGAWA Never Forgets.
	RICHARD SALA Violenzia.
	FRANK SANTORO Pompeii.
	DARYL SEITCHIK Missy #1 & 2.
	SETH Palookaville #21.
	DASH SHAW Cosplayers #1 & 2.
	JASON SHIGA Demon: Chapters 1-4. www.shigabooks.com
	CAITLIN SKAALRUD Houses of the Holy: Part One.
	JORDAN SPEER QCHQ.
	CONOR STECHSCHULTE The Dormitory.
	SASHA STEINBERG Body Language. Suspect Device #4.
	A. K. SUMMERS Pregnant Butch.
	IAN SUNDAHL Irrational Logic. Social Discipline, vol. 7.
	JILLIAN TAMAKI AND MARIKO TAMAKI This One Summer.
	WHIT TAYLOR The Anthropologists.
	CRAIG THOMPSON Azzolino's Story Without End. Fairy Tale Comics.
	SETH TOBOCMAN Edith in Flames. World War 3 Illustrated #45.
	PETE TOMS In Post. ifeelawesome.net/inpost
	BENJAMIN URKOWITZ The Facts. Felony Comics #1.
	MALACHI WARD Ritual 3: Vile Decay.
	CHRIS WARE Possession. The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2014.
	MATT WEINECKE Your media guide to the differences between #Ferguson and #pumpkinfest. twitter.com/MattTW/status/523833164758675456/photo/1
	LAUREN WEINSTEIN Carriers. nautil.us/blog/carriers-a-webcomic-on-health-luck-and-life
	STEVEN WEISSMAN Barrack Hussein Obama. whatthingsdo.com/single-panel/top-secret/#6674
	LALE WESTVIND Now and Here.
	JESS WHEELOCK Untitled. Puppyteeth #4.
	ERIC KOSTIUK WILLIAMS Hungry Bottom Comics #3.
	SOPHIE YANOW War of Streets and Houses.
	MICKEY ZACCHILLI RAV #9.