that new book smell
October 3rd, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s Best American Comics 2011, hot off the press. I was the guest editor this year. There’s some amazing stuff in this volume. Work by Gabrielle Bell, Joe Sacco, Dash Shaw, Chris Ware, Jaime Hernandez, Kevin Mutch, Eric Orner, Kate Beaton, Gabby Schulz (Ken Dahl) and many many more. Jillian Tamaki did the cover and Robert Sergel did the endpapers.
It just got a very nice review in the Austin Chronicle.
I’ll be traveling to do a few bookstore events soon. This Saturday, October 8, I’ll be at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago. Next Saturday, October 15, I’ll be on a panel at the Boston Book Festival with Dan Clowes and Seth. And on Tuesday October 18, Gabrielle Belle, Kevin Mutch and me will be at the Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC.
Also, it’s LGBT History Month. And I’m an icon! One icon a day for 31 days. It’s a very peculiar feeling to be considered “history.” A great honor, of course, but also disorienting. Watching the 10-second little slideshow-with-dramatic-voiceover about myself, I was overwhelmed with nostalgia for the present.
10 Responses to “that new book smell”
Jeepers, A.B., you must be the busiest person in cartooning to have all these publications coming out!!!
Kudos! Can’t wait to get my hands on the latest Best American Comics!
Nostalgia for the present…that makes me think!
OHBOYOHBOYOHBOY! Just bought Best American Comics 2011 online!
Now, I can’t wait for the next 13 to 23 days for it to be delivered!
shipping out to Australia is an extra $10 on top of the price of the book :O . i need to save up some cash 🙂
Yay! See you in New York!
So great about Best American Comics! Very, very cool to have your eye pulling work you love together like that. And, whoa, you, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes and Frida Kahlo as LGBT History icons? It’s wonderful, makes so much sense. And, I’ve got to admit, the tone of the short, short video was a little like the films sponsored by clean, safe energy that we used to hear in fifth grade science class, swelling music and all. Such a terrific honor, so deserved, and funny to think what one’s twenty-year old self would have made of it.
haha… the music choice is strange, indeed!
Almost seems like a Lifetime movie – Alison Bechdel was an award winning cartoonist… until she died of an unexpected CARTOON OVERDOSE in 2011!
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Alison, I am so sorry I missed your appearance last evening! My office is just around the corner from that Barnes and Noble, too. I didn’t know about it until just now. When that photo of you in NYC showed up on FB, I wondered why you were in town, but I didn’t think to check here. Too bad!
Oh, well, next time.
Nyah nyah nyah, I got my copy from Amazon UK the day it got published! Can’t wait for “Are You My Mother?”, which I also preordered. Nyah nyah nyah!