From one of America's most acclaimed comics writers - a startlingly original look at life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War inspired by true events.
This hip-hop retelling of
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet focuses on Tybalt (derisively
referred to as "the Prince of Cats") and his Capulet crew as they do
battle nightly with the hated Montagues. Set in a Blade Runner-esque
version of Brooklyn, PRINCE OF CATS is a mix of urban drama, samurai
action and classic Shakespearean theater...all written in iambic
pentameter!
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during World War II. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little different than her grandmother led her to believe.
When a professional Vegas poker player collects vouchers for the souls of a roomful of people as a bar prank, he's just anted up for a game he never imagined.
Psychiatric Tales
draws on Darryl Cunningham's time working in a psychiatric ward to give
a reasoned and sympathetic look into the world of mental illness. In
each chapter, Cunningham explores a different mental health problem,
using evocative imagery to describe the experience of mental illness,
both from the point of view of those beset by illness and their friends
and relatives.
Thirty years before the advent of
the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro
Tatsumi created a library of comics that draws parallels to modern prose
fiction and today's alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man
are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous.
Before her comics were serialized
in the New York Times Sunday Magazine ("Watergate Sue," 2007) or
released by Fantagraphics Books (Artichoke Tales), Kelso was crafting
and self-publishing her own works.
David Kelly's Steven's Comics
explore the world of a sensitive boy coming of age in the seventies,
with all the joys, quirks, and heartbreaks. This book collects the
entire Xeric-winning series in one volume.
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven. So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child - an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body.
Meet Jen Dik Seong - or "Dixie" as she's known to her friends. Korean American, dirt poor, and living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, Dixie's only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship - until she falls for fellow California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game...
Wendell lives a lonely, suburban existence, losing himself in books in order to avoid his motorcycle-driving stepfather, Ted. When the school bullies convince Wendell to venture into the long-abandoned Renaissance Fair grounds they all believe to be haunted, Wendell is surprised to find a man living in the barn.
KRISTIANSEN's European Album is newly translated to English by TEDDY
KRISTIANSEN and STEVEN T. SEAGLE. But in a unique flip-novel format, the
book is also "re-mixed" with a completely different script devised by
SEAGLE before he collaborated on the translation. Both versions - THE
RED DIARY - a tale of art forgery and World War and THE RE[A]D DIARY - a
tale of identity theft and lost love - comprise this unique graphic
novel from SEAGLE and KRISTIANSE.
"I live in Cape Town. It's a beautiful, dirty, dangerous, laid back port town on the tip of Southern Africa where the people drive fast and talk slow," narrates Dave, aka the Red Monkey, in The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Joe Daly's sensational follow up to his debut short story collection Scrublands (a 2006 Ignatz Award Nominee).
This is the story of RED ROCKET SEVEN: The entire history of rock n roll as seen through the eyes of the seventh clone of a man from a distant world. RR7 rubs shoulders with every legend from the birth of rock in the '50s, through the British invasion of the '60s, through the advent of Heavy Metal and Glam rock in the '70s, the New Wave of the '80s, the Grunge Rock and Indie/Alt. scene in the '90s, and into the new millennium!
This is the story of RED ROCKET SEVEN: The entire history of rock n roll as seen through the eyes of the seventh clone of a man from a distant world. RR7 rubs shoulders with every legend from the birth of rock in the '50s, through the British invasion of the '60s, through the advent of Heavy Metal and Glam rock in the '70s, the New Wave of the '80s, the Grunge Rock and Indie/Alt. scene in the '90s, and into the new millennium!
Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life.
Paul and Marie's bucolic French country town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII, but the siblings still live in the shadow of war. Their father is a prisoner of war, kept hostage by the Germans. When their friend Henri's parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, Paul and Marie realize they must take a stand. But how can they convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against injustice?
In the summer of 2009, Pascal Girard received an invitation to attend his ten-year high-school reunion. Initially dismissing the idea of attending, he quickly changes his mind when he receives an e-mail from Lucie Cot
THE ACCLAIMED OGN RETURNS IN AN ALL-NEW, OVERSIZED HARDCOVER EDITION! Meet Thomas Dare... an ordinary man dealing with an extraordinary circumstance. What would you do if you found you were turning to stone? What choices would you make?
Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the debut collection of John Daly, the first book the company has published by a South African cartoonist. Daly's cartoons, offbeat, hallucinatory, and often hilarious, seems descendant from the substance-induced work of Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, and S. Clay Wilson, filtered through the artist's own unique vision and sense of the absurd. Stories alternate between full-color and black-and-white, and range from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones.
Sonja Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, adoringly professing her love for the visual icons of her youth such as Princess Diana, Holly Hobbie, and Stevie Nicks. The Selves is a thought provoking peek into the female psyche where deep, sometimes troubled feelings lurk behind seemingly cute images, similar to The Virgin Suicides, leaving an equally fascinatingly unsettling mark on the reader.
Taking it's stylistic cues from the silver age of comics, this graphic
road movie by comics legend SHAKY KANE, pans out over 50 continuous
panels, taking the reader on a hallucinogenic journey into the very
hinterland of popular culture. Deluxe, recolored, remastered second
printing of the WISHBONE STUDIO cult classic.
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company.
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean present their masterpiece: Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. approached-the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he's still working it out in his head...
Observing the isolated existence of an adolescent cat, his younger brother, and their overactive imaginations in the American Heartland, Skyscrapers of the Midwest serves as an intimate chronicle of their stories of childhood hope, panic and loss. Filled with belligerent cowboys, lumbering automaton deities, and wide-open spaces, this comic gives voice to a highly respected new creator in the field of sequential literature.
Andi Watson's Slow News Day stands out as some of the cartoonist's best work. When Californian Katharine Washington comes to England to work on a newspaper she's expecting more than the small and troubled Wheatstone Mercury. Here she enters the world of office politics, the bottom line, personal and professional strife and lost hamsters. Will it be enough to lure her away from the bright lights and opportunities of home?
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached.
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached.
A violent, blackly comic thriller. In a futuristic London run by a government both morally and financially bankrupt, an ex-soldier-turned-government-assassin must contend with a crisis in London, an unusual terrorist group and their even more unusual demands, as well as a vindictive ex-girlfriend, all as he tries to rebuild his own shattered life.
What are the movies? What effect do they have on us? Why do we love them so much? Blutch addresses all these questions in a series of interlocking short comics that move between scholarly history, romantic theory and ribald vignettes.
Phenomenon, conspiracy, or delusion? "Kelvin" Melvin Reyes was only three years old when Spontaneous Human Combustion took his father from him. He's since devoted his life to exploring the mystery behind the phenomenon, searching for a pattern and predictors so that he might save others from that same fiery fate.
The longest and most ambitious graphic novel by legendary obscurantist cartoonist Hans Rickheit, 200 pages of exquisitely rendered pictorial narrative. Meticulous, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this enigmatic work will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that will take exposure to vast quantities of mediocrity to dispel.
He lives day to day and hand to mouth, this shambling lug of a man,
wrestling with his demons, picking up work where he can, and drinking
himself into oblivion. Until one days his palms begin to bleed... These
newfound stigmata lose him his job, and he ends up as part of a
traveling carnival, where he even finds love. But his past catches up
with him -violently so. Has he lost his last chance at redemption?
The greatest love story ever told is finally available in an affordable softcover omnibus edition! This two book package contains all 2128 pages of Terry Moore's epic tale featuring Katchoo, Francine, David, and Casey as they face life's biggest challenges by facing them together.
Complete the series! This pocket-sized trade paperbacks collects the beginning of Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise with Katchoo, Francine, David, and the gang! Each pocket book features new cover art by Terry Moore, and special spine art that gives this manga-sized collection a distinctive look on the shelf!
This second volume continues the Strangers In Paradise story with Katchoo, Francine, David, and the gang, collecting issues #1-15 of Volume III, plus a bonus story: the infamous Xena parody! Each Pocket Book features new cover art by Terry Moore, and special spine art that gives this manga-sized collection a distinctive look on the shelf! Perfect Bound.
Each Pocket Book features new cover art by Moore and special spine art, reprinting the classic Strangers in Paradise stories in a manga-sized format! Volume 3 features a brief glimpse at middle age for Katchoo and Francine! And with Katchoo's past buried with Darcy, things should be looking up for our trio. But will David soon follow in Darcy's footsteps? In Volume 4, Katchoo's wild past and dangerous enemies prove to be more than Francine can handle!
Katchoo loves Francine, but her wild past and dangerous enemies prove to be more than Francine can handle. Find out where the girls go from here in the fourth Pocket Book collection of the SiP story. Each Pocket Book features new cover art by Moore and special spine art.
Katchoo rebuilds her life after Francine leaves to marry Brad. Casey becomes a Las Vegas showgirl and David returns for a wild weekend romp with Katchoo - Vegas style! Collecting Volume III issues #61-72, #74-76, and the entire "Molly & Poo" story from issues #46, #49 and #73.
The final book in the SiP Pocket Book series, and a must-have to complete the collection. Contains issues #77-90, the final story arc and heart-warming conclusion of one of the most popular independent comics ever produced.
In the 1960s American South, a young gas-station attendant named Toland Polk is rejected from the Army draft for admitting "homosexual tendencies," and falls in with a close-knit group of young locals yearning to break from the conformity of their hometown through civil rights activism, folk music and upstart communality of race-mixing, gay-friendly nightclubs.
The groundbreaking, award-winning semi-autobiographical graphic novel
returns in a new edition featuring an introduction by Alison Bechdel,
award winning author of Fun Home.
Life's tough when you're a teenager-homework, boy trouble and meddling parents. So when Astrid Johnson has to deal with imaginary friends turned real, monster attacks and faerie magic as well-that's just not fair, is it? Collecting the critically acclaimed mini-series from the co-creator of PHONOGRAM.
Welcome to another heaping helping of SugarBuzz, crazed comedy mixing a retro edge with contemporary angst from the award-winning writer/artist team of Ian Carney and Woodrow Phoenix.
Couldn't get enough of the critically-acclaimed and Eisner-nominated Super Spy? Curious what all the fuss is about? Creator Matt Kindt pulls out all the stops to make this an unforgettable supplement to his 2007 opus. Deleted scenes! Standalone spy stories! Sketchbook pages! 3-D comics! Full annotations! Diagrams of spy gadgets and keys to unlock secret codes hidden throughout the original book!
Supermag is Jim Rugg's latest print project, a magazine-sized collection of comics and art. It showcases his interests in genre work, irreverent humor, graphic design, drawing, and typography. Supermag features new work as well as collecting the best of his recent anthology contributions.
Edgar Allan Poe just lost everything. His dead wife is haunting him in his dreams, his latest book has bombed, and the imagination that fueled his stories has become a curse.
It's a clash of the titans as the forces of the Nightmare King collide with the armies of Terra Somnium in a battle to decide the fate of the Dream Child!
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