An Inkpot Award-winning artist chooses a wide variety of the best graphic stories of the year.

"I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today.Featuring Gabrielle Bell • Tare Booth • Geof Darrow • Guy Delisle • Emil Ferris • Julia Gfrörer • Sarah Glidden • Simon Hanselmann • Jaime Hernandez • Julia Jacquette • Gary Panter • Ariel Schrag, and others