The Best American Comics 2009 - Rilegato

PRAISE FOR BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2008: "The third annual anthology in this series is the best yet, with inspired work from a variety of relative unknowns mixed with that from artists who enjoy great renown in this burgeoning field."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred "Despite the variety of the stories, they join as a display of the power of comics as a means of storytelling that can concisely present some aspect of human nature so the reader can digest it, contemplate it and, perhaps, understand it...The variety conveys the continued growth of comics as a means of storytelling, growth brought about by a plethora of promising new creators and continued great work by established creators such as Jaime Hernandez, Matt Groening and Chris Ware. The book offers a strong sampling of the diversity available today and hints at more innovation and progression to come." --Publishers Weekly, starred "The overall quality—not a single entry is without merit—testifies to the incontestable strength of the comics medium, and the impressive work of the talented tyros included bodes well for its continued health." --Booklist "You can never go wrong with the "Best American Series," and one skim though The Best American Comics 2008 is proof of that." --Contra Costa Times

CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’sRaw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to ads for Altoids. He’s illustrated covers forTime, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist forThe Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. His eagerly awaited graphic novelBlack Hole, published in 2005, received over a dozen Harvey Awards. Burns, along with several other prominent graphic artists, collaborated on Fear(s) of the Dark, an animated French horror film now touring the US. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters. JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her seriesArtbabe. MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together, they are the authors ofDrawing Words & Writing Pictures.