Raunchy, hilarious, and often violent as hell, Cruisin' With the Hound is an unsentimental trip to half a century ago - the anti-Happy Days, set to a true rock 'n' roll beat. The stories range from Spain's days as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang.
From the moment Fidel Castro captures Havana in 1959, 17-year-old Sonya believes in the promise of the Cuban Revolution. A medical student who dreams of becoming a painter, she joins the militia and finds herself caught between idealism and ideology. As a volunteer medic at the Bay of Pigs, she's imprisoned and tortured by her own comrades. Physically and emotionally scarred upon returning home, Sonya searches for fulfillment in art.
Originally published in 1995 and distributed only to comic book specialty stores, Daddy's Girl was ahead of its time - Drechsler's account of her abuse at the hands of her father, told from the point of view of an adolescent, is one of the most searingly honest, empathic, and profoundly disturbing uses of the comics medium in history.
Written in the 14th-century, Dante's Divine Comedy has long since been acknowledged as the greatest single poem of the last 2 millennia. It is a true epic, which tells the story of how a lost soul is led by a spirit guide through Hell and Purgatory and finally to the highest realms of Heaven, where he is re-united with his lost love, the beautiful Beatrice.
Darling Chéri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship.
GABRIEL BA and FABIO MOON Art by FABIO MOON and GABRIEL BA Cover by GABRIEL BA
ARTIST
GABRIEL BA and FABIO MOON Art by FABIO MOON and GABRIEL BA Cover by GABRIEL BA
After three Eisner Awards and a series of acclaimed projects with writers Joss Whedon (Sugarshock), Gerard Way (The Umbrella Academy), Mike Mignola (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and Matt Fraction (Casanova), Moon and B
When
Brandon Cayce is killed in a horrifying airplane wreck caused by his
brother, he must confront the riddles of life and death head-on. Brandon
realizes the person with the answers to save him from his demise may be
his late brother's own wife - a woman he once loved himself.
Clueless, naïve, full of dreams - and unemployed. Fresh out of art school, Dino is ready to start a new chapter in his life, but can't figure out how, and struggles to find his identity as an artist. With a little encouragement from a classmate, he sets out on a fantastic inner journey to wipe the dust off his teenage obsessions and reignite his passion.
Agent Swete - an unlikely hero comprised of organic chocolate and a member of the FBI's Food Crimes Division - and his sharp-tongued partner, Anderson, investigate a series of bizarre, food-inspired crimes.
Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of the of The New York Times Bestselling novel about a young prince who abandons his inheritance to discover his true calling. His iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today.
World
War II has taken its toll on the French countryside. German soldiers
patrol the towns. Every loyal French citizen wants to do something to
help the Resistance, and it's no different for Paul Tessier and his
siblings. But they're only kids - what can they do to help win the war?
DNA Failure is a unique experiment in comics - three different artists explore a single city and a few characters, providing a panoramic creative view of a made-up village somewhere between Tolkien and The Sims. This has echoes of classic roll playing games and the scrappy nature of zine-based comics.
A
parents' 50th-wedding anniversary gives old friends a reason to reunite
and take stock of their lives. Mix in some porn, weed, unrequited love,
and a sick kitty cat, and you have The Downsized. Think The Big Chill for the new millennium in Matt Howarth's tale of modern life - sad and glorious while ringing with truth.
Whether sitting in his apartment, riding Chicago's L-train, or traveling the country promoting his work, Brown spends his time filling the pages of his sketchbooks. His graphic novels provide a humorous, yet intensely personal look at love, sex, and relationships. Drawing Between The Lines explores Brown's candid approach to storytelling and unconventional method of cartooning, and provides insight from friends, fans and fellow cartoonists.
Mark Waid, Gregg Hurwitz, Harlan Ellison, Chris Ryall, Scott Tipton, Jud Meyers
ARTIST
David Messina, Claudia Balboni, Ryan Benjamin, Sara Pichelli, Elena Casagrande, Todd Harris
Elizabeth's Canvas, IDW Publishing and Blastoff have come together to create this graphic novel, in which comic creators from across the industry interview the people behind the struggle with cancer -- the patients, the nurses, the survivors, the researchers - and tell their stories, tales of defiance, perseverance, dedication and triumph. All proceeds from the sale of the graphic novel will go to further fund and grow Elizabeth's Canvas' efforts.
From the whimsical to the tragic,
EMI LENOX brings you into her world with superb cartooning, a brilliant
cast of characters and an innocent perspective often left on the
cutting room floor of other diary comics. EMI proves that life is never
dull in her first annual collection of EMITOWN!
EMI LENOX's day by day autobiographical sketch journey continues in the
second volume of EmiTown! Life gets serious in year two with
complications of a relationship, the loss of a job, and the excitement
of a blooming career.
Jimmy
is a twenty-something geek who lives at home in Oakland, trapped in his
own torpidity. When his best girl friend Sara (a girl and a friend, but
not a girlfriend) announces she's moving to New York City for a
publishing internship, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate.
TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character's perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as James's character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their futures.
Following in the footsteps of the massively successful Volume One, the second volume of Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist collects issues three and four of the likewise popular quarterly series.
This volume of Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist collects issues five and six of the popular, Eisner and Harvey Award winning quarterly series, and features the late Will Eisner's final return to the Spirit, in a crossover tale with the Escapist!
Jason Shawn Alexander, Steve Rolston, Philip Bond, and Eduardo Barreto
Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you!
Being a wholly true and accurate account of the tragic events surrounding the extraordinary lives of Evelyn Evelyn, a darling but unfortunate pair of conjoined twins. Including such noteworthy incidents as: the bizarre circumstances of their birth and subsequent bereavement; shocking encounters with depraved gentlemen; the acquisition and loss of loyal friends; and the terrible fate of Elephant Elephant
Jesse Jacobs bursts onto the comic scene with his first published work Even the Giants.
The work beautifully captures the isolation of the Great White North
while also giving the artist a sequential canvas to explore and
experiment.
Writer/artist David Chelsea's first six 24-Hour Comics are collected into one volume! Following rules devised by comics legend Scott McCloud, the acclaimed graphic novelist and commercial artist has created six inspired improvisations-each drawn in a single day!
From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir comic books, What It Is and Picture This, to her novels, graphic memoirs, plays, and awards in between, Lynda Barry has been part of the North American alternative comics scene for over thirty years.
Sammy Harkham is regarded as one of the most influential cartoonist/editor of his generation. After a decade of work and groundbreaking anthologies, Everything Together collects his short stories. These comics condense vast amounts of emotion and information into nuanced cartoon narratives.
Gage Wallace's day seemingly couldn't get any worse. After breaking up with his girlfriend, he finds himself framed for blowing up his apartment building-the latest in a string of deadly bombings in this doomed suburb. After the neighboring Fat City fell into the river during an earthquake, these hapless exurbanites have been waiting for their own town to sink. The only glimmer of hope is a talking rat...
Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 is the second book collecting Leslie Stein's loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl.
The Harvey Awards-nominated graphic novel by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley is now in print at last! This is the story of two brothers and their struggles, ambitions, dreams and fantasies. All this plus extras galore-including a sneak preview of the sequel (of sorts), Lone Justice: Crash
Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London!
In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing.
Farm 54
is a collection of semi-autobiographical stories that address three
important periods in the life of the protagonist, Noga, growing up in
Israel's rural periphery.
Flight is a full-color anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field. The artists range from top animators working at Pixar and other major studios, to emerging web cartoonists and established comic book and graphic novel creators. Each contributor's story represents a labor of love, and that shines through in the quality of the anthology. It's no wonder Flight has ascended so rapidly, developing such a rabid following!
Flight is a full-color anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field. The artists range from top animators working at Pixar and other major studios, to emerging web cartoonists and established comic book and graphic novel creators. Each contributor's story in the anthology represents a labor of love, and that fact shines through in theoverall quality of the anthology.
This is a full-color anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field. The artists range from top animators working at Pixar and other major studios, to emerging web cartoonists and established comic book and graphic novel creators. These include names such as Becky Cloonan, Bill Plympton, Chuck BB, and more!
The previous three editions of Flight have propelled this anthology to the forefront of the graphic novel industry, garnering award nominations, creating great buzz for BEA, Comic-Con, and other like-minded conventions, and generally striking a fresh note among jaded comics readers. Flight Volume 2 was a Harvey Award finalist for Best Anthology.
Flight is a full-color anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field. The artists range from top animators working at Pixar and other major studios, to emerging web cartoonists and established comic book and graphic novel creators. Each contributor's story in the anthology represents a labor of love, and that fact shines through in the overall quality of the anthology. It's no wonder Flight has ascended so rapidly, developing such a rabid following.
The latest volume in the acclaimed graphic novel series, a full-color graphic anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the fields of comics and animation including JP Ahonen, Jason Caffoe, Michel Gagne, Justin Gerard, Paul Harmon, Kazu Kibuishi, Stuart Livingston. Katie Shanahan, Kean Soo, and many others.
Flight
is a full-color anthology of visual short stories by some of the
hottest artists in the field. The contributors range from top animators
working at Pixar and other major studios to emerging web cartoonists and
established comic book and graphic novel creators.
Best
friends Emma and Joey are in their senior year at a women's college,
navigating through their last days in the school's isolated scene. Emma
harbors a long standing crush on her transgender friend Elliott, while
messy Joey works her way through stoic bad-girl types.
Lovers of art comics will know Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine) as one of the most inscrutable and discomforting cartoonists working today, but Rickheit has been producing his own self-published comics for over a decade.
Forgetless is the biggest party in New York, but now it's ending. On
the final guest list: Sara and Sonia, struggling models turned
professional killers; Derrick, a failed T-shirt maker and hypnotist's
assistant turned You-Tube porn impresario; and a sex-addicted koala
(don't ask).
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