The Best American Comics 2019 Jillian Tamaki, Guest Editor Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor Table of Contents LALE WESTVIND Grip, Vol. 1 (Excerpt) E. A. BETHEA Bit Rot FANNY BRITT AND ISABELLE ARSENAULT Louis Undercover (Excerpt) JOE SACCO Bitumen or Bust ANATOLA HOWARD Self-Love-Cycle LESLIE STEIN Vanguard MARGOT FERRICK Dognurse (Excerpt) LAUREN WEINSTEIN Being an Artist and a Mother BEN PASSMORE Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than You Think JOHN PORCELLINO Selections From King-Cat #78 ERIK NEBEL Why Don’t We Come Together (Excerpt) SOPHIA FOSTER-DIMINO Small Mistakes Make Big Problem XIA GORDON Kindling (Excerpt) VERA BROSGOL Welcome to O.R.R.A. From Be Prepared (Excerpt) JED MCGOWAN Uninhabitable NISHANT SALDANHA Snow Day for Mr. Good Guy NICK DRNASO Sabrina (Excerpt) REMY BOYDELL AND MICHELLE PEREZ Sex Positive From The Pervert (Excerpt) ANGIE WANG In Search of Water-Boiled Fish CONNOR WILLUMSEN Anti-Gone (Excerpt) NOEL FREIBERT Old Ground (Excerpt) JERRY MORIARTY whatsa paintoonist? (Excerpt) TOMMI PARRISH Perfect Discipline From Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty (Excerpt) LAURA LANNES By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage (Excerpt) ELEANOR DAVIS Hurt or Fuck	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). 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 2019, 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 2019.	PRESS Kirkus Review Library Journal PopMatters Hyperallergic KinderComics ICv2
	Notable Comics September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018 Selected by Bill Kartalopoulos   CHRISTOPHER ADAMS Gustave Flaubert: Trois Contes. AEON MUTE Untitled. The Beginning. DEREK M. BALLARD Choreograph, Volume One. JOSH BAYER RM. GABRIELLE BELL Were We Dating? medium.com/spiralbound ALYSSA BERG No Man Is an Island. BRIAN BLOMERTH Alphabet Junction. vice.com JENNIFER CAMPER Boys Will Be Boys. The Believer #118. EMILY CARROLL & LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Speak. GENEVIÈVE CASTRÉE A Bubble. ANGELA CHEN Diary comics. instagram.com/angelafanche2 CHRIS CILLA Blue Onion #1. JORDAN CRANE Keeping Two, Part Six. FAREL DALRYMPLE Proxima Centauri #1-3 MICHAEL DEFORGE Rhode Island Me. A Western World. A. DEGEN Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters. ABRAHAM DÍAZ Nausea. STEVE DITKO #26. D.R.T. Qoberious, Vol. 1. G. W. DUNCANSON Yaffingale Iditarod. Freaker Unltd #5. DW Mountebank. JESSICA EARHART Khloris, Issue 3. THEO ELLSWORTH The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1. AUSTIN ENGLISH The Enemy from Within. INES ESTRADA Alienation #6 EDIE FAKE Gaylord Phoenix, Issue 8. JULES FEIFFER The Ghost Script. GG I'm Not Here. ROLANDE GLICENSTEIN Uncovering Walter Benjamin, Vols. I & II. LEIF GOLDBERG Lost in the Fun Zone. ALEX GRAHAM Cosmic BE-ING #6. VERONICA GRAHAM Cold Snaps: Weather Reports, Vol. 2. JAIME HERNANDEZ The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. JENNIFER L. HOLM & MATTHEW HOLM Swing It, Sunny. KEVIN HOOYMAN Mr. Meow. š! #30. SARA L. JACKSON The Woman Minotaur. SEAN KAREMAKER Feast of Fields. AIDAN KOCH Daughter. ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB My Very Own Dream House. Love That Bunch. JEFFRY ODELL KORGEN & KEVIN C. PYLE Migrant. MICHAEL KUPPERMAN All the Answers. PATRICK KYLE The Death of the Master, Part One. KATE LACOUR Vivisectionary III. BLAISE LARMEE 2001. HANNAH K. LEE Hey Beautiful. Language Barrier. AUGUST LIPP Roopert. MITA MAHATO In Between. SACHA MARDOU Someday, My Witch Will Come. muthamagazine.com RICHARD MCGUIRE My Things. JESSE MCMANUS The Whistling Factory. BEN MENDELEWICZ Renovator. š! #30. ADAM MEUSE Taking Up Space. HAYLEY DAWN MUIR one is all, all is one. The Beginning. ROMAN MURADOV Resident Lover. JASON MURPHY Cecil’s Riddles. MUSHBUH 310,310. ALEX NALL Lawns. L. NICHOLS Recapitulation. Ley Lines #16. NICK NORMAN Peggy. NOU A Hidden Pleasure. Freaker Unltd #5. LAURA PALLMALL Sporgo #2 & 3. RON REGÉ, JR. The Weaver Festival Phenomenon. KEVIN REILLY A Thousand Times. DAVID SANDLIN Belfaust: A Love Story. Strapazin #129. ROBERT SERGEL TSA Cares. September 12th and Other Stories. FIONA SMYTH Oneirology. Somnambulance. CONOR STECHSCHULTE Generous Bosom 3. KARL STEVENS The Winner. BRENNA THUMMLER Sheets. SETH TOBOCMAN A New America AND Rex R Us. World War 3 Illustrated #48. TOM VAN DEUSEN The Big Me Book. SARA VARON New Shoes. JEE-SHAUN WANG Paper Mountain. CHRIS WARE Pedantry & Pedagogy. LINDSAY WATSON Those Eyebeams. Cold Cube 003. COOPER WHITTLESEY Omens of Normal Living. DAVID WIESNER & DONNA JO NAPOLI Fish Girl. ERIC KOSTIUK WILLIAMS Bathhouse at the End of the World. Phile Magazine #2. MADELEINE WITT House Fires. JIM WOODRING Poochytown. GEORGE WYLESOL Ghosts, Etc. GINA WYNBRANDT Thank You. MICKEY ZACCHILLI L.I.B.W.I.W.D. (or, Lay Off My Earthly Vessel). Lovers Only #2.