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Issue: The Best American Comics #2014
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Publisher: FlagHoughton Mifflin
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Volume: none
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9780544106000
UPC/EAN: 978054410600052500
Price: $25.00 USD
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Content Items: 64 (39 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Scott McCloud; Bill Kartalopoulos (series editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color Cover; Mostly Black & White interior
Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 1/4 inches tall (18.41 cm x 23.49 cm)
Paper Stock: book paper
Binding: Hardcover; some issues with no dust jacket
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Best American Comics 2014

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The Best American Comics 2014

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The Best American Comics 2014

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Foreword

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Bill Kartalopoulous
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Scott McCloud
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Please read do not browse
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The Best American Comics 2014

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Great Comics- -Are Not a Genre

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Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners

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Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez
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“Frogmouth” Velvet [Vivian Solis]; Mel Spropp; Ish; Tonta; Borneo; Tito; Reno Banks; Frank Lopez; Mrs. Spropp
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Picnic Now!

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Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor
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Surly Waiter; Radical Picnicker; Bored Man
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from Metropolis Magazine (August / September 2012)
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Sickroom Reading

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Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor
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Yosef Surcease
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The Hand Laundry

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Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor
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Manil Kelly; Eliazar Vats; Underpaid High-School Student
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The Hive (excerpt)

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Charles Burns
Charles Burns
Charles Burns
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Charles Burns
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The Hive
Sarah
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All the Marbles (excerpt)

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Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez
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All the Marbles
Huey
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Translated, from the Japanese

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Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine
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Adrian Tomine
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High Road to the Schmuck Seat

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
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Aline & Bob
Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb; Slacky; Franz; Hannah
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A 21st Century Still Life

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Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor
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Raising Readers

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Scott McCloud
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Drama (excerpt)

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Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier
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Raina Telgemeier
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Drama
Callie; Matt; Greg; Mr. Madera; Loren; Liz; Sanjay; Delfina; Mirko
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Jane, the Fox and Me (excerpt)

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Fanny Britt
Isabelle Arsenault
Isabelle Arsenault
Isabelle Arsenault
Isabelle Arsenault
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Jane, The Fox and Me
Hélène; Jane Eyre; Hélène's Mom; Geneviève; Ann-Julie; Sarah; Chloé
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Family Tree

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Letting it Go (excerpt)

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Miriam Katin
Miriam Katin
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Miriam Katin
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Letting it Go
Chiune Sugihara; Yukiko
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Mostly in color with a few black & white flashback pages
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RL (excerpt)

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Tom Hart
Tom Hart
Tom Hart
Tom Hart
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RL
Tom Hart; Realtor; Rosalie; Leela; Roger Moore (single-panel cameo); Idris Elba (single-panel cameo); Bike Dude
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Mom (excerpt)

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Sam Sharpe
Sam Sharpe
Sam Sharpe
Sam Sharpe
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Mom
Sammy; Jean
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August 1977

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Nina Bunjevac
Nina Bunjevac
Nina Bunjevac
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Strange Adventures

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The Mermaid in the Hudson (excerpt)

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Mark Siegel
Mark Siegel
Mark Siegel
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The Mermaid in the Hudson
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Saga Chapter 7 (excerpt)

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Brian K. Vaughan
Fiona Staples
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Fiona Staples
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Saga
Marko; Barr; Klara; Alana
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Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #1 (excerpt)

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Brandon Graham
Brandon Graham
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Brandon Graham
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Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity
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Dimensions

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Ted May
Ted May
Ted May
Ted May
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Rob
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The Book of the Year is Not a Book

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Building Stories

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Chris Ware
Chris Ware
Chris Ware
Chris Ware
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Building Stories
Unnamed Woman; Miss Kitty; Phil; Lucy
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Printed in the landscape format, two pages from the original pamphlet on each page.
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Testimonials

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March: Book One (excerpt)

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John Lewis; Andrew Aydin
Nate Powell
Nate Powell
Nate Powell
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March
John Lewis; Attorney Gray; Martin Luther King
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Oh! Almost forgot to mention this:
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The Program is Morally Good (excerpt)

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Frank M. Young
David Lasky
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David Lasky
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The Program is Morally Good
The Carter Family [A. P. Carter; Sara Carter; Maybelle Carter; Janette Carter]
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Hip Hop Family Tree (excerpt)

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Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor
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Hip Hop Family Tree
Chuck D [Carlton D. Ridenhour]; Hank Shocklee; Wizard K-Jee; Melle Mel
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Oh, Crap- Webcomics!

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Depression Part Two (excerpt)

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Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh
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Depression
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Even Stranger Adventures

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Canadian Royalty

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Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge
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Margrave Blunder; Queen Amelia; Archduke Redgrave Capsule; Dame Maggie Quiet; Prince Theodore; Viscountess Mary Pillow; Archduke Tariq Elgin; Samantha Elgin; Duke Berry Edmonton; Christan; Alyssa; Marcus; Daniel; Alicia; David Sipowicz; A. F. Moritz; Chloe Lum; Celebrity Ransom; Kyle Kelly; Lucien LaPierre; Walkable Turncoat; Anne "Curly" Waugh; Rocco Dudek; Raymond Burr; Duty Clementine; Hal Raglan; Patrick Kyle; Archduke Ovary Slolem; Joan Fraser; King Benjamin; Claude Movenpick
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The Understanding Monster- Book One

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Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth
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The Understanding Monster
Izadore; Alporg's Ghost; Cosmic Ninja; The-Kid-In-the-Crystal
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The Kuiper Belt

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Scott McCloud
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Is There Silence?

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Ron Regé Jr.
Ron Regé Jr.
Ron Regé Jr.
Ron Regé Jr.
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The Implications of Making Something from Nothing via the Spiritual Realm

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Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
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This is Magic, This is Alchemy

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Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr.
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Face It

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Chris Forgues [as C. F.]
Chris Forgues [as C. F.]
Chris Forgues [as C. F.]
Chris Forgues [as C. F.]
Chris Forgues [as C. F.]
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Bittersweet Romance (excerpt)

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Victor Cayro
Victor Cayro
Victor Cayro
Victor Cayro
Victor Cayro
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Bittersweet Romance
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Whistle While You Work… Or Think of Death

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Onsmith
Onsmith
Onsmith
Onsmith
Onsmith
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Schweinhund

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Gerald Jablonski
Gerald Jablonski
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Gerald Jablonski
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Howdy, His Nephew Dee Dee and a Friend of Howdy's Nephew

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Gerald Jablonski
Gerald Jablonski
Gerald Jablonski
Gerald Jablonski
Gerald Jablonski
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Hyperspeed to Nowhere, Return to Entropy (excerpt)

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Lale Westvind
Lale Westvind
Lale Westvind
Lale Westvind
Lale Westvind
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Hyperspeed to Nowhere, Return to Entropy
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Untitled Selections

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G. W. Duncanson
G. W. Duncanson
G. W. Duncanson
G. W. Duncanson
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Blue Period

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Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch (duotone watercolor)
Aidan Koch (duotone watercolor)
Aidan Koch (duotone watercolor)
Aidan Koch
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Ambient Air (Part II)

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Erin Curry
Erin Curry
Erin Curry
Erin Curry
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Ambient Air
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Memory Boxes

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Scott McCloud
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Cul de Sac (September 17-23, 2012)

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Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson
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Cul de Sac
Peter; Ernesto; Alice; Dill; Miss Bliss; Mrs. Otterloop
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Six dailies and one Sunday strip. In b&w except for the Sunday one. The series finale.
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Hawaii 1997

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Sam Alden
Sam Alden
Sam Alden
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Sam
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Contributor's Notes

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Bill Kartalopoulous ?; Sam Alden; Isabelle Arsenault; Andrew Aydin; Fanny Britt; Allie Brosh; Nina Bunjevac; Charles Burns; Victor Cayro; Erin Curry; G. W. Duncanson; Theo Ellsworth; Chris Forgues [as C. F.]; Brandon Graham; Tom Hart; Gilbert Hernandez; Jaime Hernandez; Ben Katchor; Miriam Katin; Aidan Koch; David Lasky; John Lewis; Ted May; Onsmith; Ed Piskor; Nate Powell; Sam Sharpe; Mark Siegel; Fiona Staples; Raina Telgemeier; Richard Thompson; Brian K. Vaughan; Chris Ware; Lale Westvind; Frank M. Young
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Notable Comics from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2013

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Bill Kartalopoulous
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The Best American Series

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Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier
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Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez
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Jaime Hernandez
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It's been fun watching the stories talk to each other at night….
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back cover with a brief quote from Scott McCloud

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