edited by Michael Dooley & Steven Heller This is a truly amazing compendium of the ins and outs of making comics in the world today. The list of contributors is eye-popping, and their writings are inspiring. Anyone interested in creating comics stands to benefit from this. Here's a partial list of the contributors: Bob Mankoff, R.C. Harvey, Tony Auth, Peter Kuper, David Rees, Stan Mack Mark Alan Stamaty, Bill Griffith, Nicole Hollander, Jim Steranko, Barron Storey, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, David Mack, Monte Beauchamp, Gary Panter, David Sandlin, Peter Blegvad, Mark Newgarden, Chip Kidd, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Kim Deitch, Rick Geary, Ho Che Anderson, Tom Spurgeon, Dan Nadel, Robert Williams, Heidi MacDonald, Todd Hignite, Eric Reynolds, Graig Yoe, Trina Robbins, Scott McCloud, Joe Kubert, Will Eisner, Ted Stearn, James Sturm, Matt Madden, Rich Kriener... and that's not all! Whew, what a line-up. Recommended.

Now out of print.  We still have a few...

The Sylvia Chronicles is sub-titled, "30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama."  Yes, she's been around awhile (as this book was published one year into Obama's administration, it would be just shy of "40 years," if reissued now).  Nicole Hollander was a pioneer of feminist sensiblities in the syndicated newspaper comics strip, preceding – and influencing – both Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel with her observational wit and cutting satire.  This volume is organized by theme, and makes the perfect introduction to this great strip.

Introduction by Jules Feiffer

A hybrid prose/graphic/comics memoir of growing up in Chicago in a bygone era unencumbered by dates (but we'd say that it's roughly twenty years prior to Emil Ferris's recently fictionalized Chicago childhood), We Ate Wonder Bread will transport readers back to their own childhoods, when parents were larger than life, adults were mysteries, the world was filled with wonder, and each day held a new surprise.  

Introduction by Alison Bechdel!

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