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.