First page is "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - Edward Munch". The title "A Killer's Surprise" appears on a title page here but apparently not in the original comic.

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Laura Park
Pencils: Laura Park
Inks: Laura Park
Letters: Laura Park

Reprints

from Mome (Fantagraphics, 2005 series) #22 (Fall 2011)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Kate Beaton
Pencils: Kate Beaton
Inks: Kate Beaton
Letters: Kate Beaton

Genre

humor; historical

Reprints

from http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=331

Indexer Notes

The book appears to say this strip is reprinted from a book titled Hark! A Vagrant, but it is not in the Drawn & Quarterly version from 2011. It was printed later (in a slightly different page configuration) in Step Aside, Pops (A Hark! A Vagrant Collection) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2015 series).

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Evan Dorkin
Pencils: Evan Dorkin
Inks: Evan Dorkin
Colors: Sarah Dyer ?
Letters: Evan Dorkin

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 2011 series) #?

Indexer Notes

Each page is a collection of 5 strips designed to look like daily strips. Each page has a title with "Fun" at the top, "Fun Ahoy!", "Monstrous Fun", "Funzapoppin'!", "Some Fun, eh?", "Fun Is Fun" and "Traipse Into Fun".

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Jennifer Hayden
Pencils: Jennifer Hayden
Inks: Jennifer Hayden
Letters: Jennifer Hayden

Reprints

from Underwire (Top Shelf, 2011 series) ([May] 2011)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Michael Kupperman
Pencils: Michael Kupperman
Inks: Michael Kupperman
Colors: Michael Kupperman
Letters: Michael Kupperman

Reprints

from Tales Designed to Thrizzle (Fantagraphics, 2005 series) #7 (September 2011), #7 (September 2011), #7 (September 2011), #7 (September 2011)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Gabrielle Bell
Pencils: Gabrielle Bell
Inks: Gabrielle Bell
Colors: Gabrielle Bell
Letters: Gabrielle Bell

Reprints

from Kramers Ergot (PictureBox, 2012 series) #8 (2012)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Vanessa Davis
Pencils: Vanessa Davis
Inks: Vanessa Davis
Colors: Vanessa Davis
Letters: Vanessa Davis

Reprints

from http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/86191/in-the-rough

comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script: Jeremy Sorese
Pencils: Jeremy Sorese
Inks: Jeremy Sorese
Colors: Jeremy Sorese
Letters: Jeremy Sorese

Genre

biography

Reprints

from Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality (2D Cloud, 2012 series) ([May] 2012)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script: Joseph Lambert
Pencils: Joseph Lambert
Inks: Joseph Lambert
Colors: Joseph Lambert
Letters: Joseph Lambert

Genre

biography

Characters

Helen Keller; Annie Sullivan

Reprints

from Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller (Hyperion, 2012 series) ([March] 2012)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Paul Pope
Pencils: Paul Pope
Inks: Paul Pope
Letters: Paul Pope

Genre

historical

Characters

Pete Conrad; Alan Bean; Richard Gordon

Synopsis

The second Moon landing.

Reprints

from Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 2011 series) #9 [166] (February 2012)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 9.5 pages (report information)

Script: various
Letters: typeset

Synopsis: Brief biographies of each of the contributors plus a note from each of them about their story.

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Notable comics from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012 as selected by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden.

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Kate Beaton
Inks: Kate Beaton
Colors: Kate Beaton
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Includes very short biographies of Jeff Smith, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden.

Editing

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Related Scans

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Series Information

Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. [no title indexed]
2. Foreword
3. Introduction
4. 6 Mirror [Excerpt from Are You My Mother?]
5. The Speaker
6. The Divine Manifestation of a Singular Impulse
7. Turn Back / Excerpt from Haunter
8. Manananggal
9. The Good Wife
10. 70 Nights of Pleasure / Excerpt from Habibi
Habibi
11. The Story of Grainne Ni Mhaille / Excerpt from Gone to Amerikay
Gone to Amerikay
12. Excerpts from American Elf
American Elf
13. You Lied to Us! / Excerpt from Giants, Beware!
The Chronicles of Claudette
14. Story Time
Beasts of Burden
15. Raiders / Excerpt from Friends with Boys
16. 1912 / Excerpt from Unterzakhn
17. A Husband and Wife
18. Four Comics from Incidentalcomics.com
19. Nita Goes Home
20. Book 1: "You Send Me" Chapter 1
Concrete Park
21. Top Five
22. The Strange Boy / Excerpt from My Friend Dahmer
My Friend Dahmer
23. A Killer's Surprise / Excerpt from Rachel Rising
Rachel Rising
24. George
25. Velocipede from Hark! A Vagrant
26. Fun Strips
27. Saints in the Store
28. Scary Bathtub Stories
29. Cody
30. In the Rough
31. Love Me Forever! Oh! Oh! Oh!
32. Discipline / Excerpt from Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
33. 1969
34. Contributors' Notes
35. Notable Comics
36. "In front of you awaits wit, style..."

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Foreword (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages (report information)

Introduction (Table of Contents: 3)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2.25 pages (report information)

6 Mirror [Excerpt from Are You My Mother?] (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

The Speaker (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

The Divine Manifestation of a Singular Impulse (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Turn Back / Excerpt from Haunter (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 33 pages (report information)

Manananggal (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

The Good Wife (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

70 Nights of Pleasure / Excerpt from Habibi (Table of Contents: 10)

Habibi / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Story of Grainne Ni Mhaille / Excerpt from Gone to Amerikay (Table of Contents: 11)

Gone to Amerikay / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Excerpts from American Elf (Table of Contents: 12)

American Elf / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

You Lied to Us! / Excerpt from Giants, Beware! (Table of Contents: 13)

The Chronicles of Claudette / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Story Time (Table of Contents: 14)

Beasts of Burden / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Raiders / Excerpt from Friends with Boys (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

1912 / Excerpt from Unterzakhn (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

A Husband and Wife (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Four Comics from Incidentalcomics.com (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Nita Goes Home (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Book 1: "You Send Me" Chapter 1 (Table of Contents: 20)

Concrete Park / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Top Five (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

The Strange Boy / Excerpt from My Friend Dahmer (Table of Contents: 22)

My Friend Dahmer / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

A Killer's Surprise / Excerpt from Rachel Rising (Table of Contents: 23)

Rachel Rising / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

George (Table of Contents: 24)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Velocipede from Hark! A Vagrant (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Fun Strips (Table of Contents: 26)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Saints in the Store (Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Scary Bathtub Stories (Table of Contents: 28)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Cody (Table of Contents: 29)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

In the Rough (Table of Contents: 30)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Love Me Forever! Oh! Oh! Oh! (Table of Contents: 31)

comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Discipline / Excerpt from Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller (Table of Contents: 32)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

1969 (Table of Contents: 33)

The Best American Comics #2013

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