McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 13

Edited by Chris Ware. Featuring a dustjacket that folds out into a double-sided poster, designed by Chris Ware. Includes mini-comic "King-Cat" that came with it originally. Third printing, 2004. ISBN-101932416080 ISBN-139781932416084 From Publishers Weekly: [...] a beautifully designed anthology of contemporary art comics, with a few vintage treats thrown in, including an excerpt from "Obadiah Oldbuck"—an 1842 publication that's arguably the first American comic book—and a series of very rough sketches by Charles Schulz. [...] a superb introduction to the best American cartoonists working today. [...] As Ira Glass points out in his introduction, Ware seems to believe cartooning gets no respect at all, and his McSweeney's is a passionate defense of the medium. Ware has included work by artists with an impressively varied range of visual styles and narrative techniques. Excellent condition, minor wear around edges of folded dust jacket.