Author Description

The newest addition to the best-selling series -- the first Best Amer. annual dedicated to the finest in graphic storytelling and literary comics. This inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web. It features Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barry -- and newcomers Justin Hall, Esther Pearl Watson, and Lilli Carre. Guest editor Harvey Pekar is the author of the graphic novels ¿Ego and Hubris¿ and ¿The Quitter.¿ He was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film ¿American Splendor,¿ and his book of the same name has been illustrated by artists such as Robert Crumb, Frank Stack, and Joe Sacco.