A review by pyrrhicspondee
The Best American Comics 2006 by Lynda Barry, Rick Geary, Jessica Abel, David Heatley, Kim Deitch, Alex Robinson, Chris Ware, Harvey Pekar, Alison Bechdel, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Ben Katchor, Anders Nilsen, Olivia Schanzer, Jesse Reklaw, Justin Hall, Robert Crumb, Joe Sacco, Joel Priddy, Gilbert Shelton, Seth Tobocman, Jonathan Bennett, Rebecca Dart, Esther Pearl Watson, Hob, David Lasky, Jaime Hernández, Lloyd Dangle, Ivan Brunetti, John Porcellino, Lilli Carré, Tom Hart, Kurt Wolfgang

3.0

Cumulatively a 3.5. There are a few comics in here that are A+ 5-Stars Amazing. I loved Lilli Carre's Paul Bunyan story. Joe Sacco's nonfiction war comics are always satisfying and this one was no different. La Rubia Loca by Justin Hall was so compelling, but also he seems to have stolen and fictionalized a stranger's story (a lesbian woman, no less), so that's a problem. But Portrait of My Dad by David Heatley is worth the purchase price alone for its humanity and complexity.

Overall, the best comics in here were good because of their compelling stories. Sadly, and unsurprisingly, most of those stories were about white men or written by white men.