The Best American Comics was a yearly anthology of comics in the United States published by Houghton Mifflin from 2006 to 2019 as part of The Best American Series.

Stories were chosen using the same procedure as the other Best American titles, whereby a series editor chose 80–120 candidates from which a guest editor picked about 20 for publication. Most of the runner-up stories were listed in the appendix. The series editors were Anne Elizabeth Moore (2006–07), Jessica Abel & Matt Madden (2008–2013), and Bill Kartalopoulos (2014–2019).

The Best American Comics

On September 30, 2020, Kartalopoulos announced on Twitter that the series had been discontinued. He also provided a more detailed account of his time working on the series and its cancellation on his personal website.

The Best American Comics

Guest editors

2006: Harvey Pekar

2007: Chris Ware

2008: Lynda Barry

2009: Charles Burns

2010: Neil Gaiman

2011: Alison Bechdel

2012: Françoise Mouly

2013: Jeff Smith

2014: Scott McCloud

2015: Jonathan Lethem

2016: Roz Chast

2017: Ben Katchor

2018: Phoebe Gloeckner

2019: Jillian Tamaki

References

2006 comics debuts

2019 comics endings

Book series introduced in 2006

Comics

Books about comics

Comics anthologies

Houghton Mifflin books

The Best American Comics