Jillian Tamaki is one of my favorite comics author/illustrators, and I was delighted to see she was edited a Best American Comics volume! This cover by Sophia Foster-Dimino knocked my socks off. The anthology as a whole mixes short stories with excerpts from longer works. For me, the standouts were: Jillian's introduction; Joe Sacco's "Bitumen or Bust" about tar sands and oil extraction in Northern Canada; Ben Passmore's "Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than You Think" previously published on The Nib; Sophia Foster-Dimino's "Small Mistakes Make Big Problems" which I had read before in Comics For Choice a collection supporting abortion access; Vera Brosgol's "Be Prepared" from the wonderful YA comic of the same name; and "Hurt or Fuck", a weird beautiful story by Eleanor Davis that investigates the meaning of art, love and human relationships.