The Best American Comics 2017 Ben Katchor, Guest Editor Bill Kartalopoulos, Series Editor Table of Contents GARY PANTER The Future of Art 25 Years Hence DAN ZETTWOCH Communications Workers of America AND Coffee Lids of Greater Old Red Falls BEN DUNCAN Get In Where U Fit In AND Molt KIM DEITCH Shrine of the Monkey God DEB SOKOLOW Willem de Kooning. (Geniuses are nothing if not complicated in their methods.) TIM LANE Remembering the Millionaire Hobo LALE WESTVIND The Kanibul Ball GABRIELLE BELL Get Out Your Hankies (Excerpt) FROM July Diary 2016 JOHN HANKIEWICZ De Hooch ED PISKOR Selections From Hip Hop Family Tree BJÖRN MINER Daisies (Excerpt) FROM Swampson 3 JOE SACCO Rent Crisis GERONE SPRUILL Time To Get Paid, Sexual Chocolate, Women Only, No Men Allowed, AND Hong Fong Chuey GRANT REYNOLDS Radio Silence BAILEY JEAN THOMAS Untitled JOSH BAYER 2010 KURT ANKENY In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home (Excerpt) MICHAEL DEFORGE Big Kids (Excerpt) ELI VALLEY SCHLONGED! OSCAR AZMITIA Good Haven High MIKE TAYLOR Ranchero WILLIAM TYLER Four Untitled Pieces MATTHEW THURBER Kill Thurber ETHAN PERSOFF AND SCOTT MARSHALL John Wilcock, New York Years (Excerpt) SIENNA CITTADINO Jeremy Meets the Forest Cow SAM ALDEN Test of Loyalty CONOR STECHSCHULTE Generous Bosom Part 2 (Excerpt) PATRICK KYLE Necessity (Excerpt) FROM Don't Come in Here SAMI ALWANI The Dead Father DAPPER BRUCE LAFITTE I Am Better than Picasso from Muhammad Ali Series LAURA PALLMALL Picaresque LAWRENCE D. HUBBARD G.C. in "Dem Bones Pt. II" (Excerpt) FROM Real Deal Comix LARRY RANDOLPH Love with Family Love AND The Team for Sure BILL GRIFFITH Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (Excerpts)	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). On the subject of our process, I cannot urge any artist or publisher strongly enough to submit work to Best American Comics. We have a completely open submission process, and all work that is submitted will be considered. Please send work, labeled with contact information and date of publication, to: Bill Kartalopoulos Series Editor The Best American Comics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 3 Park Avenue, 19th floor New York, NY 10016 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 2017, 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 2017	PRESS USA Today review Vulture review Booklist review The Washington Post Publishers Weekly gift guide Interview with Ben Katchor at Pacific Standard The Forward Seattle Weekly Raw Vision Magazine The Comics Alternative podcast The Comics Reporter Comics Grinder review Comics Workbook review Just Indie Comics review Comic Book Resources
	Notable Comics September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2016 Selected by Bill Kartalopoulos   ROSAIRE APPEL Conversational Maladjustment. Central Booking Magazine, vol. VI, issue III. CECE BELL Crazy Little Thing Called Lunch. Comics Squad: Lunch!. SAMAN BEMEL-BENRUD Dumb. Big Planet Comics: blue. ALYSSA BERG Alpenglow. R. O. BLECHMAN Amadeo & Maladeo: A Musical Duet. BRIAN BLOMERTH The Wimpy Whisper. TARA BOOTH Unwell. JOHN BRODOWSKI Sid and Sid in Part-Time Jobs. Magic Whistle 3.0 #1. CHESTER BROWN Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus. NINA BUNJEVAC An Excerpt from Fatherland II. Taddle Creek #36. APOLO CACHO La Vida en el Presidio. LILLI CARRÉ Sight Modesty Snake Splitting. ROZ CHAST Epilogue. The New Yorker, July 25, 2016. BRIAN CHIPPENDALE Puke Force. COLE CLOSSER Black Rat. DANIEL CLOWES Patience. AL COLUMBIA Pim & Francie: Blood on the Walls, Blood on the Walls and Pim & Francie: The Candyman. Smoke Signal #23. MARK CONNERY Tricky Business. 4Panel, vol. 1. GREG COOK Friends Is Friends. JORDAN CRANE Uptight #5. ERIN CURRY Poems to the Sea. Ley Lines #5. DAME DARCY Le Fantome Chateau or Ghost Castle Hassle. Meat Cake Bible. ANYA DAVIDSON Gloom Planet. STEVE DITKO Ditko #24. MAËLLE DOLIVEUX Truce. JULIE DOUCET Carpet Sweeper Tales. NICK DRNASO Beverly. G. W. DUNCANSON New School of Design MFA. Weakly Annual. DW Mountebank, pp. 55QVIc+ to 66UIIIb+. Irene 6. THEO ELLSWORTH The Understanding Monster, Book Three. AUSTIN ENGLISH low level enjoyment. C.F. Ladder. Clean Sweep. JULES FEIFFER Cousin Joseph. SARAH FERRICK Sec. WINNIE T. FRICK lecture/seminar. monthlysmokeandmirrors.com. GG Lapse. š! #25. TOM GALAMBOS Travis. JULIA GFRÖRER Dark Age. PHILIPPE GIRARD Tailgate. 20x20: Twenty Years of Conundrum Press. SAMMY HARKHAM Crickets #5. TEVA HARRISON In-Between Days. TOM HART Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir. JENNIFER HAYDEN The Story of My Tits. TIM HENSLEY Sir Alfred #3. GILBERT AND JAIME HERNANDEZ Love and Rockets: New Stories #8. RYAN HESHKA Mean Girls Club. PETER AND MARIA HOEY Coin-Op #6. LUKE HOWARD Our Mother. KEVIN HUIZENGA Ganges #5. JESSE JACOBS The Garden. 4Panel, vol. 1. DYLAN JONES The Longer You Stare the Fatter I'm Guilty. KEITH JONES Secretimes. JULIACKS Architecture of an Atom Epilogue: Dance Ballad Compulsive Tribulations. SEAN KAREMAKER The Ghosts We Know. MARGARET KIMBALL Dave. Ecotone, Fall 2015. AIDAN KOCH Glass Surfaces and Still Pools. KATE LACOUR Vivisectionary II. JEFFREY LEWIS Fuff #11. AMY LOCKHART Puppy Love. Magic Whistle 3.2. CÉLINE LOUP AND ANONYMOUS Silent Treatment. Bad Boyfriends. MARDOU Sky in Stereo. BENJAMIN MARRA Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T. MATS!? It Crawled from the Grave... Rotland Dreadfuls, vol. 2, #4 TED MAY Men's Feelings #2. ALISON MCCREESH Ramshackle: A Yellowknife Story. JED MCGOWAN Sun. jedmcgowan.com. MIKE MIGNOLA Hellboy in Hell #9 and 10. JASON T. MILES Wishbone. Love Wins. TONY MILLIONAIRE Maakies. ROMAN MURADOV The End of a Fence. ANNIE MURPHY I Never Promised You a Rose Garden #2. MARK NEWGARDEN Man and Wart. Fable Comics. MARÉ ODOMO Late Bloomer. ONSMITH The Spoke of a Wheel. Lumpen Magazine #126. VALERIE OWEN Irmalinda's Doll. LAURA PARK & J. C. MENU Bon-Point Comix #2. ALABASTER PIZZO AND KAELEIGH FORSYTH Hellbound Lifestyle. DAVID PLUNKERT Heroical #3. REBECCA ROHER Bird in a Cage. DAVID SANDLIN Aging of Innocence. JEN SANDWICH Total Trash #7 and 8. GABBY SCHULZ Sick. BRIAN SELZNICK The Marvels. ROBERT SERGEL It's an Awesome Thing When the Spirit Leaves the Body. Space: An Eschew Collection. DASH SHAW Escape from Nostalgia World. Hip Hop Family Tree Three-In-One Featuring Cosplayers. JASON SHIGA Demon, chapters 14-21. JOSH SIMMONS Habit #2. CAITLIN SKAALRUD Houses of the Holy. JEREMY SORESE Curveball. ART SPIEGELMAN Lost. The New Yorker, August 29, 2016. DANIEL SPOTTSWOOD NiX! 2015 Annual. LESLIE STEIN Time Clock. A. K. SUMMERS Those OTHER Nurses. muthamagazine.com. IAN SUNDAHL 40X. Vision Quest #5. JILLIAN TAMAKI Platform. WALKER TATE Channel. SETH TOBOCMAN Len, a Lawyer in History. PETE TOMS The Linguists GODA TRAKUMAITE #1 ("What Is Inside?") and #2 ("Comix About Different Problems..."). BEATRIX URKOWITZ The Beauty Theorem. hazlitt.net. TILLIE WALDEN A City Inside. LAUREN R. WEINSTEIN Perfect Maine Vacation. theguardian.com.