The Best American Comics 2018

Editor: Phoebe Gloeckner.

Series editor: Bill Kartalopoulos. "I love comics. Comics is (Comics are?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to "The Best American Comics 2018". This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today.

"The Best American Comics 2018" includes:

• Gabrielle Bell;
• Tara Booth;
• Geof Darrow;
• Guy Delisle;
• Emil Ferris;
• Julia Gfrörer;
• Sarah Glidden;
• Simon Hanselmann;
• Jaime Hernandez;
• Julia Jacquette;
• Gary Panter;
• Ariel Schrag and others.

Foreword
Introduction
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 warlock story
Geof Darrow - The Shaolin cowboy: Who'll stop the reign (excerpt)
Guy Delisle - Hostage (excerpt)
Abraham Diaz - Brausebag
Margot Ferrick - Margot
Emil Ferris - My favourite thing is monsters - book 1 (excerpt)
Casanova Frankenstein - A taste of 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 Ollmann - 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)
Chloe Perkis - Ugly
Richie Pope - Fatherson
Michael Ridge - Untitled (excerpt)
Keiler Roberts - Sunburning (excerpts)
Ariel Schrag - Things I regret
Ted Stearn - The Moolah tree (excerpt)
Mattew Thurber - Art comic (excerpt)
Pete Toms - The last felony comics story
Lale Westvind - Yazar and Arkadas (excerpt)
Notable comics from September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2017