The Best American Comics 2018
Phoebe Gloeckner, Guest Editor
Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor
Table of Contents
GABRIELLE BELL
Ghost Cats
from Everything Is Flammable (Excerpt)
TARA BOOTH
Selections from How to Be Alive
D. J. BRYANT
Echoes Into Eternity
MAX CLOTFELTER
The Warlok Story
GEOF DARROW
The Shaolin Cowboy:
Who'll Stop the Reign? (Excerpt)
ABRAHAM DÍAZ
Brausebad
MARGOT FERRICK
Margot
EMIL FERRIS
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 1 (Excerpt)
CASANOVA FRANKENSTEIN
A Taste of Purgatory
from Purgatory (Excerpt)
JULIA GFRÖRER
Frail Nature
JULIAN GLANDER
Selections from Susan Something
SARAH GLIDDEN
Sam's Story
from Rolling Blackouts (Excerpt)
ALEX GRAHAM
Angloid, Part 2
SIMON HANSELMANN
Megg, Mogg & Owl: "A Gift for a Baby"
JAIME HERNANDEZ
Forest Spirits
KEVIN HOOYMAN
The Wide Berth
and Benign Neglect
JESSE JACOBS
Crawl Space (Excerpt)
JULIA JACQUETTE
Playground of My Mind (Excerpt)
ANDRE KRAYEWSKI AND ED KRAYEWSKI
Miss V: My Last Love Story
AARON LANGE
Selections from Art School
JOE OLLMAN
Seabrook of Arabia
from The Abominable Mr. Seabrook (Excerpt)
LAURA PALLMALL
Selections from
Things More Likely to Kill You Than...
and Busy Comic
GARY PANTER
Songy of Paradise (Excerpt)
CHLOË PERKIS
UGLY
RICHIE POPE
Fatherson
MICHAEL RIDGE
Untitled (Excerpt)
KEILER ROBERTS
Sunburning (Excerpt)
ARIEL SCHRAG
Things I Regret
TED STEARN
The Moolah Tree (Excerpt)
MATTHEW THURBER
Art Comic (Excerpt)
PETE TOMS
The Last Felony Comics Story
LALE WESTVIND
Yazar and Arkadaş (Excerpt)
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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 2018, and below I have reproduced this year's list of Notable Comics. Clicking on the links below will take you to either the artist's website or a site for more information about the indicated publication. These comics are all well worth your time if you have enjoyed The Best American Comics 2018
Kirkus Review
Vulture
The Beat
September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017
Selected by Bill Kartalopoulos
