June/July/Aug 2010

The Best American Comics Criticism

Sean Howe


The Best American Comics Criticism

Fantagraphics Books

$19.99 List Price

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The road to respectability has been a long one for comic books; in fact, it’s felt like the home stretch for ages now. Despite all the progress, there’s been nothing like a canon of comics criticism. A few criteria for inclusion would then be expected from a book titled The Best American Comics Criticism, but editor Ben Schwartz tosses these aside (there’s an apology that “several of our authors are not American” because

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