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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In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (Yale University Press)
This copiously-illustrated volume from Comics Art's Todd Hignite explores the fuel behind the creative fire of some of comics' biggest creators, from R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman to Charles Burns and Chris Ware.