A review by janetlun
McSweeney's Issue 13: An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories, &c by Lynda Barry, Richard Sala, Debbie Drechsler, Jim Woodring, Bud Fisher, Mark Beyer, Gilbert Hernández, Philip Guston, McSweeney's Publishing, Jeffrey Brown, Kim Deitch, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Lawrence Weschler, Glen David Gold, Charles Burns, Ira Glass, Julie Doucet, Chris Ware, Rodolphe Topffer, Milt Gross, Malachi B. Cohen, Sean Wilsey, Ben Katchor, Richard McGuire, Goerge Herriman, David Collier, Daniel Clowes, Mark Newgarden, Robert Crumb, John Updike, Kaz, Joe Sacco, Archer Prewitt, Seth, Charles M. Schulz, Jaime Hernández, Adrian Tomine, Ivan Brunetti, Chester Brown, Chip Kidd, Art Spiegelman, Joe Matt, John McLenan, Gary Panter, Tim Samuelson

An anthology of comics and essays about comics edited by Chris Ware. The essays are by Ware, Ira Glass, John Updike (who knew he drew comics?), Glen David Gold, and Chip Kidd. Some of the comics had to be printed too small to read comfortably, but most are fine, and the quality of the printing is excellent. This is McSweeney's, after all. It gives you a sense of the history of comics. I recognized a lot of the cartoonists, but it would have been nice to to have more info on what each comic was excerpted from.