From Barnes & NobleAs the theorist of the genre, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics; The Reinvention of Comics) has been called the "Aristotle of comics," but as the guest editor of this year's Best American Comics, he's displaying his good-natured eclecticism. This festive 400-page gathering collects the best in graphic novels, magazines, pamphlet comics, newspapers, minicomics, and the Web. A delight to behold.
Publishers Weekly09/08/2014
Editor McCloud (Understanding Comics) highlights the diverse number and styles of comics in this occasionally frustrating but ever-essential annual. The "big names"—Los Bros. Hernandez, Charles Burns, R. and Aline Crumb—are well represented in a section dubbed, tongue-in-cheek, as "The Usual Suspects," but a myriad of alt-comics, minicomics, and webcomics continue to make this series the widest-ranging comics collection of its kind.
