The Best American Comics 2016 Roz Chast, Guest Editor Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor Table of Contents ADRIAN TOMINE Killing and Dying WALTER SCOTT Wendy (Excerpt) CHRIS WARE The Last Saturday (Excerpt) ANNE EMOND The Swim Today DREW FRIEDMAN R. Crumb and Me MARC BELL Stroppy (Excerpt) KEILER ROBERTS Powdered Milk, Vol. 14 JOE SACCO Milk from Bumf, Vol. 1 GABRIELLE BELL The Dishrack LYNDA BARRY Syllabus (Excerpt) JOHN PORCELLINO The Hospital Suite (Excerpt) LIANA FINCK All the Paintings Here Agree CECE BELL El Deafo (Excerpt) KATE BEATON Broadside Ballads CASANOVA FRANKENSTEIN The Corpse, the Ghost and the Hollow-Weenie (Excerpt) from The Adventures of TAD MARTIN #6 ALEX SCHUBERT Fashion Cat SOPHIA ZDON Bike Fast Coney Island Home JULIA WERTZ Vintage Trash and Horse Bones RICHARD McGUIRE Here (Excerpt) NINA BUNJEVAC Dissident Years (Excerpt) from Fatherland DAVE LAPP mom LANCE WARD Adults Only (Excerpt) BEN KATCHOR The Danish Modern Borer The Latest Laugh The Needless Garment Extruder Illness in the Window The Vontsel Institute The Brazen Bull Corporation GENEVIÈVE ELVERUM Blanket Portraits JOE OLLMAN Shut Your Pie Hole, Johnny Pinetop CHAR ESMÉ Blinky-Jinks Playhouse CHAR ESMÉ and LAUREN POOR Big Rudy's Cowgirls Club TAYLOR-RUTH BALDWIN Untitled GILBERT HERNANDEZ Bumps in the Night (Excerpt) from Bumperhead GG Don't Leave Me Alone	Bill Kartalopoulos
	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 2016, 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 2016	PRESS Library Journal review Booklist review NPR: Best Books of 2016 Paste Magazine review USA Today review Publishers Weekly "More to Come" podcast Bustle feature A Case for Pencils interview Interview with cover artist Marc Bell at CNQ Bookgasm review Houston Chronicle: 10 books that make great gifts Comics Grinder review Largehearted Boy The Casual Optimist: Book Covers of Note Publishers Weekly 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
	Notable Comics September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015 Selected by Bill Kartalopoulos   LALA ALBERT Janus. RICHARD ALEXANDER Richy Vegas Comics #8. TRACY AUCH The Necrophilic Landscape. RINA AYUYANG A Cartoonist's Diary. tcj.com/author/rina-ayuyang/ JOSH BAYER Mr. Incompleto GEOFF BERNER and TIN CAN FOREST We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians. BRIAN BLOMERTH Understanding Nicotine. MAT BRINKMAN Cretin: Keep on Crep'n Creek, Episode 2. UDWFG, vol. 2 ELIJAH BRUBAKER Reich #12. TESSA BRUNTON Domestic Times. ANDY BURKHOLDER The Lower Style. CHARLES BURNS Sugar Skull. TINGS CHAK Undocumented. CHRIS CILLA Labyrinthectomy/Luncheonette. MAX CLOTFELTER The Elements of Rough, Volume One. WARREN CRAGHEAD Golden Smoke. FAREL DALRYMPLE It Will All Hurt #3. ANYA DAVIDSON Head Shrinka. ELEANOR DAVIS Love Story hazlitt.net/comics/love-story MICHAEL DEFORGE Lose #6. KRYSTAL DIFRONZO The Good Hodgkins. STEVE DITKO #2OOW1, #22, and #2OWW3OWW. EVAN DORKIN The Eltingville Club #2. DW Mountebank, Pages 1AIa+ to 26XVb+. Irene 5 DENNIS P. EICHHORN and VARIOUS Extra Good Stuff. THEO ELLSWORTH The Understanding Monster, Book Two. INÉS ESTRADA Lapsos. DEVIN FLYNN Hawd Tales #1. SOPHIA FOSTER-DIMINO Sex Fantasy #4. NOEL FREIBERT Old Ground. JASON FULFORD and TAMARA SHOPSIN This Equals That. MARNIE GALLOWAY In the Sounds and Seas vol. 2. JULIAN GLANDER Please Look at Me. vice.com/series/please-look-at-me CARLOS GONZALEZ Scab County. BILL GRIFFITH Zippy the Pinhead. NICHOLAS GUREWITCH The Perry Bible Fellowship. pbfcomics.com TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Step and Screw. Nat. Brut #5. JOHN HANKIEWICZ Education. SAMMY HARKHAM Crickets #4. LEAH HAYES Not Funny Ha-Ha JAIME HERNANDEZ Stories from Love and Rockets: New Stories, vol. 7. KEVIN HOOYMAN Conditions on the Ground #11. LAWRENCE HUBBARD Real Deal #7. EMILY HUTCHINGS Boring Comics. JESSE JACOBS Mathematical Solutions for a Global Crisis. CATHY G. JOHNSON Dear Amanda. KEN JOHNSON Ball and Cone. ballandcone.tumblr.com JUNE and PAULA Water. World War 3 Illustrated #46. LAURA KNETZGER Sea Urchin. AIDAN KOCH Impressions. JAMES KOCHALKA Fungus. ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB and ROBERT CRUMB "Aline & Bob" comics. Zap #16. RICHARD KRAFT Here Comes Kitty. PATRICK KYLE New Comics #5 & 6. KATE LACOUR Eye Sees Eye. AARON LANGE Trim #3. BLAISE LARMEE 3 Books. SCOTT McCLOUD The Sculptor. BEN MENDELEWICZ The Lonely One Home. When the Joggers Run the Town MELISSA MENDES The Weight #1-3. JASON T. MILES How It Happened. TONY MILLIONAIRE Maakies. TALYA MODLIN Circling the Pomeroy Abyss. VICTOR MOSCOSO The Card Game Untitled Zap #16. CORINNE MUCHA Fixated. KRIS MUKAI Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness. ROMAN MURADOV (In a Sense) Lost and Found. JASON MURPHY Me Nut Nut Nut #3. ERIK NEBEL Well Come. eriknebel.tumblr.com MARK NEWGARDEN and MEGAN MONTAGUE CASH Bow-Wow's Nightmare Neighbors. MOLLY COLLEEN O'CONNELL Stripp Mall #1. JOHN PHAM Epoxy #5. DAVID PLUNKERT Heroical 2. RICHARD SALA Super-Enigmatix. In a Glass Grotesquely. ZAK SALLY Recidivist IV. SETH SCRIVER Blob Top #2. DARYL SEITCHIK Flag Day. SubCultures. ROBERT SERGEL Eschew #4. SETH Palookaville #22 DASH SHAW Doctors. GILBERT SHELTON The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in Phineas Becomes a Suicide Bomber. Zap #16. JASON SHIGA Demon, Chapters 6 through 14. shigabooks.com JOSH SIMMONS Black River ART SPIEGELMAN Notes from a First Amendment Fundamentalist. The Nation, March 23, 2015 CONOR STECHSCHULTE Generous Bosom, Part One LESLIE STEIN Bright-Eyed at Midnight. JILLIAN TAMAKI SexCoven. Frontier #7. WALKER TATE Waiting Room. MATTHEW THURBER Art Comic #1 & 2. PETE TOMS The Red Swan. Felony Comics #2. PAUL K. TUNIS Juniper. Ink Brick #3. MARGUERITE VAN COOK and JAMES ROMBERGER The Late Child and Other Animals. TILLIE WALDEN The End of Summer. KIM WAYMAN Special Intelligence. Clorofilia. LAUREN WEINSTEIN Flower Voyeur. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/28/flower-voyeur-a-comic/ LALE WESTVIND Hot Dog Beach #3. LISA WILDE Yo, Miss. RON WIMBERLY Ten Years After. The New Yorker, August 24, 2015 GINA WYNBRANDT Big Pussy. MICKEY ZACCHILLI Untitled. Lovers Only.