The Best American Comics 2013 (The Best American Series ®) - Hardcover

“In front of you awaits wit, style, danger, curiosity, philosophy, metaphysical visions, love, angst, sex, betrayal, and cutting-edge ocular techniques all folded into this thing—this experience—we call comics.” — Jeff Smith, from the Introduction

Featuring Derf Backderf, Kate Beaton, Alison Bechdel, Gabrielle Bell, Eleanor Davis, James Kochalka, Terry Moore, Tony Puryear, Craig Thompson, and others

JEFF SMITH is the self-published author/cartoonist of the BONE graphic novels, which have won numerous awards around the world, including multiple Eisners and Harveys and the French Alph-Art Award. In 2005, Smith’s work was chosen to launch Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Books. In 2009, he was the subject of an Emmy Award–winning documentary called The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics. Smith’s current self-published project is the noir, sci-fi tale of a dimension-hopping art thief called RASL.

JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida, as well as two collections of stories from her series Artbabe.
MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist best known for his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together they are the authors of Mastering Comics, the follow-up volume to their popular comics textbook Drawing Words and Writing Pictures.