Reddit mentions of The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American)

The Best American Comics 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar. I really love this series. Each year Houghton Mifflin puts out a new volume with comics from the previous year. And every year they have a new guest editor who brings with them their own particular taste and spin on things. This year was Harvey Pekar's turn and the comics in this edition tend to be more literary with very long excerpts from various graphic novels. My favorite of these was "La RubiaLoca" from Justin Hall's "The Travel Tales" about a group of backpackers in Mexico had to work together to baby sit a woman who was having a mental breakdown. She had stopped sleeping and started to talk fluently in languages that she formally didn't know.

Another particular thing about this volume is that there are a number of political comics in it like Joe Sacco's "Complacency Kills" or "Nakedness and Power" about the abuses of Chevron in Nigeria.

I really love these anthologies because I get a wide view of diverse comics that are being made. I'd have to buy lots of books and spend lots of money to get the taste you get in these books.