Best Local Anthology

As a follow-up to Sequence, the four-gallery sequential-art extravaganza that took the West Bottoms by storm in May, the Comics Creators Network (under the direction of Mark Stinson) set about making a print anthology of the work included in the exhibit -- including a few extras by other talented area folks. With a slick, colorful front cover by detail-oriented printmaker Ted Lee Nathanson, the book is a full 220 pages of black-and-white sequential art. It looks great, and it reads even better. The biography section of the book contains contact information for each of the 63 contributors, which we hope will get the word out to people in Kansas City and elsewhere that we have writers and illustrators galore who are ready and willing to work on cool projects. But if other people won't give them work, they'll go right ahead making stuff anyway, and they'll publish it themselves. At $10 apiece, these books are clearly made not for profit but rather, as the title indicates, to share the fruit of local artists' labors.