Best American Comics 2009 (Houghton Mifflin)
This year’s look at comics highlights, curated by Black Hole‘s Charles Burns, is more "respectable" and expected than creepy and freaky.
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Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes (Fantagraphics)
Random cruelty, futility, ennui, and an implied assault on human complacency are the order of the day in Anders Nilsen’s latest hefty tome.