The New Comics Anthology

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Gathers selections from avant-garde graphic literature by more than seventy-five artists.

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April 26,2025
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High point: R. Crumb's amazing comic bio of Charley Patton.
Low point: Aline Crumb's scrawlings.
April 26,2025
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This 1991 collection is dated, but it is a good indicator of the ways in which comics were evolving. Like other comics “samplers”—there are good and bad things about this format: the good being that readers can sample many different artists and styles; the bad being that we only get snippets of stories.

This edition has a glossy color insert that showcases prints of non-comics artwork.
April 26,2025
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Published in 1991 and collecting a lot of material that first saw print in the 1980s, this anthology is no longer so "new." But I'm surprised at how well a lot of the stories have held up... (more soon)
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