NON-FICTION
Products
21 THE STORY OF ROBERTO CLEMENTE HC
Wilfred Santiago captures the
grit of Clemente's rise from his impoverished Puerto Rican childhood, to
the majesty of his performance on the field, to his fundamental decency
as a human being in a drawing style that combines realistic attention
to detail and expressive cartooning.
Retail price: $22.99
save 37%
Our price: $14.48
500 ESSENTIAL GRAPHIC NOVELS SC
Featuring full-color images from the best moments in graphic novel history, this complete visual guide serves as a celebration of this fascinating and innovative form by offering a comprehensive look at the 500 most essential graphic novels of all time.
Retail price: $24.95
save 20%
Our price: $19.99
ACTION PHILOSOPHERS (MORE THAN COMPLETE) TP
The
best-selling, award-winning comic book series that tells the lives and
thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in hip and hilarious fashion
has been collected into a single volume!
Retail price: $24.95
save 27%
Our price: $18.24
ADVENTURES OF HERGE HC
The Adventures of Hergé
is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges
Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Hergé. Meticulously
researched, with references to many of the Tintin albums and
complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main
"characters," the biography is appropriately drawn in Hergé's iconic
clear line style as an homage to the Tintin adventures that have
commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many
generations.
Retail price: $19.95
save 27%
Our price: $14.59
AGE OF BRONZE VOL 01 A THOUSAND SHIPS TP
Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death--the most spectacular war story ever told: The Trojan War. When a lustful Trojan prince abducts the beautiful Queen Helen of Sparta, Helen`s husband vows to recover her no matter the cost. So begins the Trojan War. From far and wide the ancient kings of Greece bring their ships to join the massive force to pledge their allegiance to High King Agamemnon. Featuring the greatest of the Greek heroes: Achilles, Odysseus, and Herakles, along with a cast of thousands.
Retail price: $19.95
save 42%
Our price: $11.59
AGE OF BRONZE VOL 02 SACRIFICE TP
The Trojan War has been the greatest of Greek myths for more than 2500 years, and now ERIC SHANOWER presents his unique version of the story, gathered from extensive sources and drawn with historical fidelity. In this volume, Helen's triumphant entry into Troy is marred by Kassandra's wild prophecies of doom. Meanwhile, a massive army approaches...
Retail price: $19.95
save 42%
Our price: $11.59
AGE OF BRONZE VOL 03 HC
High King Agamemnon lusts to conquer the wealthy city of Troy. He leads his army across the sea, fighting all the way. On the island of Tenedos, just off the coast of Troy, Achilles leads the attack. Spears fly and men die. When the dust settles, Achilles finds himself one step closer to his tragic fate. Meanwhile, the Trojans prepare their defenses and gather allies.
Retail price: $27.99
save 42%
Our price: $16.19
AGE OF BRONZE VOL 03 TP
High King Agamemnon lusts to conquer the wealthy city of Troy. He leads his army across the sea, fighting all the way. On the island of Tenedos, just off the coast of Troy, Achilles leads the attack. Spears fly and men die. When the dust settles, Achilles finds himself one step closer to his tragic fate. Meanwhile, the Trojans prepare their defenses and gather allies.
Retail price: $17.99
save 42%
Our price: $10.49
ALAN MOORE STORYTELLER HC
Alan Moore is one of the most important creative forces in the history of comics. His innovative works, which include V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
have become enduring features of the modern cultural landscape.
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 28, 2011
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 28, 2011
Retail price: $45.00
save 27%
Our price: $32.85
ALAN MOORE WRITING FOR COMICS GN
The master of comic book writing shares his thoughts on how to deliver a top notch script! The main essay was originally written in 1985 and appeared in an obscure British fanzine, right as Moore was reshaping the landscape of modern comics, and has been tragically lost ever since. Now Avatar brings it back in print, collected as a single graphic novel, and heavily illustrated by Jacen Burrows, along with a brand new essay on how Moore's thoughts on writing have changed in the two decades since he first wrote it.
Retail price: $5.95
save 37%
Our price: $3.77
ALEX TOTH IN HOLLYWOOD VOL 02 TP
Alex Toth's body of work for the small and big screen is reproduced in this volume. The work also includes work on Roy Rogers, Gun Glory, The Lennon Sisters, Sea Hunt, Sugarfoot, Gale Storm, and more. Theakstonized for the best reproduction.
Retail price: $25.00
save 30%
Our price: $17.49
ALICE IN SUNDERLAND GN
In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece. Enter the famous Edwardian palace of varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience..
Retail price: $29.99
save 42%
Our price: $17.39
AMELIA EARHART THIS BROAD OCEAN HC
Amelia Earhart's triumphant crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 offers readers a glimpse into her relentless ambition and her tireless will to promote women's rights. She developed a love of flying at a very young age. As she followed her dream, breaking records along the way, she inpsired other women to soar to new heights.
Retail price: $17.99
save 37%
Our price: $11.33
AMERICAN SPLENDOR ANOTHER DAY TP
Harvey Pekar returns to celebrate 30 years of autobiographical comics with his newest volume collecting the 4-issue acclaimed miniseries.
Retail price: $14.99
save 45%
Our price: $8.24
AMERICAN SPLENDOR ANOTHER DOLLAR TP
More moving moments from the life of the essential everyman!
Retail price: $14.99
save 45%
Our price: $8.24
AMERICAN SPLENDOR LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY PEKAR TP
American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching.
Retail price: $20.00
save 25%
Our price: $14.99
AMERICAN SPLENDOR OUR MOVIE YEAR GN
Harvey Pekar portrays his rise in popularity after the release of the hit movie American Splendor in this original graphic novel.
Retail price: $16.95
save 45%
Our price: $9.34
BARACK OBAMA COMIC BOOK BIOGRAPHY
Featuring the smash hit, best-selling comic book biography of Barack Obama (Presidential Material: Barack Obama) that became a media sensation...
Retail price: $14.99
save 37%
Our price: $9.49
BEST AMERICAN COMICS CRITICISM SC
Conventional wisdom states that cartooning and graphic novels exist in a golden age of creativity, popularity, and critical acceptance. But why? Today, the signal is stronger than ever, but so is the noise. New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Bookforum critic Ben Schwartz assembles the greatest lineup of comics critics the world has yet seen to testify on behalf of this increasingly vital medium.
Retail price: $19.99
save 37%
Our price: $12.59
BEST OF ENEMIES HISTORY OF US & MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS VOL 01 HC
David B. and Filiu draw striking
parallels between ancient and contemporary political history in this
look at the US-Middle East conflict. The reader is transported to the
pirate-choked Mediterranean sea, where Christians and Muslims continue
the Crusades, only this time on water.
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MAY 30, 2012
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MAY 30, 2012
Retail price: $24.95
save 27%
Our price: $18.24
BETWEEN GEARS TP
This honest, autobiographical account of a college senior's life will
transport you to the land of Jell-O shots, term papers, job interviews,
road trips, and sanguine optimism in the face of uncertainty and
change.
Retail price: $19.99
save 42%
Our price: $11.59
BLACK HISTORY LEADERS TP
In honor of Black History Month, this 96-page anthology features biographies of leading African-American personalities, including Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, and Condoleezza Rice.
Retail price: $15.99
save 27%
Our price: $11.67
BLANKETS GN NEW ED
A
NEW SOFTCOVER EDITION OF BLANKETS - RESIZED & WITH A NEW COVER!
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, BLANKETS
explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated
country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.
Retail price: $29.95
save 32%
Our price: $20.39
BLANKETS HC
A brand-new edition of Blankets, resized and with a new cover! Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets
explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated
country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.
Retail price: $39.95
save 32%
Our price: $27.19
CIVIL WAR ADVENTURE VOL 01
History Graphics Press presents a new line of graphic novels dedicated to America's bloodiest conflict and defining hour. Meticulously researched and supplemented with text material, maps and period pictures, these detailed stories bring the Civil War novice or aficionado into the action and allow you to view the events in a new and exciting way.
Retail price: $14.95
save 30%
Our price: $10.49
COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF COMICS GN
For the first time ever, the
inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic
novels, and manga is presented in comic book form!
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MAY 23, 2012
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MAY 23, 2012
Retail price: $21.99
save 37%
Our price: $13.85
COMPLETE MILT GROSS COMIC BOOK STORIES VOL 01 HC
This beautifully designed book collects the complete comic book stories of comic genius Milt Gross, culled from rare, impossible to track down comic books of the '40s, which have been lovingly restored. Gross wrote and drew what many consider to be the first graphic novel, He Done Her Wrong, and was a popular comic stripper (with hilarious cartoon-style Yiddish-isms), animator, and screenplay writer..
Retail price: $39.99
save 37%
Our price: $25.19
DENNIS THE MENACE (MERCHANT OF) TP
This engaging memoir from Hank Ketcham has Dennis the Menace tell his own colorful story
Retail price: $19.95
save 21%
Our price: $15.74
DO ANYTHING VOL 01
From Warren Ellis, the award-winning author, comics creator and popular columnist (and who is currently writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of the comics series GRAVEL, also published by Avatar Press), comes a collection of the most mind-bending columns you've ever read: DO ANYTHING. DO ANYTHING VOLUME ONE: JACK KIRBY RIPPED MY FLESH collects the first 26 chapters of Ellis' text masterpiece and is a grand tour through comics & culture as seen through a burgled robot head.
Retail price: $5.99
save 17%
Our price: $4.99
DONG XOAI VIETNAM 1965 HC
Joe Kubert, one of the most influential storytellers in comics history, tells the harrowing, true story of a detachment of Special Forces soldiers on a simple recon mission into the village of Dong Xoai, Vietnam, that turned suddenly deadly.
Retail price: $24.99
save 45%
Our price: $13.74
DONG XOAI VIETNAM 1965 TP
Joe Kubert, one of the most influential storytellers in comics history,
tells the harrowing, true story of a detachment of Special Forces
soldiers on a simple recon mission into the village of Dong Xoai,
Vietnam, that turned suddenly deadly.
Retail price: $19.99
save 45%
Our price: $10.99
ESSENTIAL DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR HC
From the author of Fun Home comes the story of the lives, loves, and politics of cult fave characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others! For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages.
Retail price: $25.00
save 30%
Our price: $17.49
EVOLUTION THE STORY OF LIFE ON EARTH HC
Evolution,
the most accessible graphic work on this universally studied subject,
takes the reader from earth's primordial soup to the vestigial
structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern humans. Once
again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons render the complex
clear and everything cleverly comedic.
Retail price: $18.95
save 27%
Our price: $13.86
FAME POP STARS TP
Fame
offers a broad examination of strong and influential personalities who
are influencing culture. In this collected edition learn about the top
pop stars of the decade - Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and
Britney Spears. This series has been featured from Time Magazine to Tiger Beat!
Retail price: $17.99
save 27%
Our price: $13.13
FEMALE FORCE VOL 01 TP
In this examination of strong women in politics, readers will learn the life stories of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, and Sarah Palin. In an age of political change, see who will help us all shape the future! Collecting the first four issues of Female Force. .
Retail price: $15.99
save 32%
Our price: $10.89
FOOTNOTES IN GAZA HC
Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has always been a notorious flashpoint in one of the world's most intractable conflicts. Spanning fifty years, moving between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy.
Retail price: $29.95
save 30%
Our price: $20.99
FOOTNOTES IN GAZA SC
A
bloody incident in 1956 left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli
soldiers. To uncover the truth, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life
of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis.
Retail price: $23.99
save 30%
Our price: $16.79
FORTUNE AND GLORY A TRUE HOLLYWOOD COMIC BOOK STORY DELUXE HC ANNIVERSARY ED
Before ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, before NEW AVENGERS, before SECRET INVASION...Brian Bendis was an award-winning cartoonist, and this scathing Hollywood tell-all was one of his best! Entertainment Weekly gave him an A, Hollywood insiders fell all over themselves to praise him, and fans everywhere gave him a thumbs-up for hilarity. Now, for its tenth anniversary, Bendis releases his sold-out miniseries FORTUNE & GLORY in color for the first time
Retail price: $19.99
save 45%
Our price: $10.99
FUN HOME TP
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
Retail price: $19.95
save 30%
Our price: $13.99
GIRAFFES IN MY HAIR A ROCK N ROLL LIFE HC
Bruce Paley turned 18 in 1967 during the Summer of Love, putting him on the front lines of the late-1960s youth movement.
Retail price: $19.99
save 37%
Our price: $12.59
GOVERNMENT ISSUE COMICS FOR THE PEOPLE 1940-2000S
Since
the 1940s, federal and state government agencies have published comics
to disseminate public information. Comics legends Will Eisner and Milton
Caniff produced comics for the army. Walt Kelly's Pogo told parents how
much TV their kids should watch, Bert the Turtle showed them how to
survive a nuclear attack, and Dennis the Menace took "A Poke at Poison."
Retail price: $29.95
save 27%
Our price: $21.89
HARK A VAGRANT HC
Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker
cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. No era nor tome is left
unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western World's revolutionaries,
leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on
the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction.
Retail price: $19.95
save 27%
Our price: $14.59
HEART TRANSPLANT LTD ED HC
For more than three decades, best-selling author Andrew Vachss has
battled the lowest bullies: child abusers. In his law practice, he's
represented children and youth exclusively. As art director for King
Features for two decades, Frank Caruso has developed a style that speaks
to all ages, for all ages. The two are now joining forces to attack
school bullying.
Retail price: $99.99
save 42%
Our price: $57.99
HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS HC
A stunningly accomplished debut graphic novel, HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS is Sarah Glidden's charming and funny travel memoir of her trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Masada and other historic locales, brought to life with lush watercolors in all of their quirky and breathtaking detail.
Retail price: $24.99
save 45%
Our price: $13.74
HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS TP
When Sarah Glidden took a "Birthright Israel" tour, she thought she
knew what she was getting herself into. But when she got to Israel, she
found that things weren't quite so simple.
Retail price: $19.99
save 45%
Our price: $10.99
I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG HC
Based on the real-life occurrence
of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of floating trash in a
remote area of the Northern Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of
Texas, I'm Not A Plastic Bag tells a moving story about
loneliness, beauty, and humankind's connection to our planet.
Retail price: $19.95
save 32%
Our price: $13.59
I LOVE LED ZEPPELIN SC
Characterized by bold, sensual brushstrokes and striking images of powerful, butt-kicking women, Ellen Forney's imagination runs wild with stories that spring from her own inspiration, while other are collaborations with such luminaries as comedian Margaret Cho, novelist Kristin Gore, writer and editor Dan Savage, and Camille Paglia.
Retail price: $19.95
save 37%
Our price: $12.59
INFLUENCING MACHINE SC
Nearly 1 million weekly listeners
trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and
complexities of the modern media. This is a visionary and opinionated
work of graphic nonfiction on the media and it discontent.
Retail price: $16.95
save 27%
Our price: $12.40
JACK JACKSON AMERICAN HISTORY TEJANOS CAUSE HC
After creating what many consider
the first underground comic, God Nose, in 1964 and co-founding Rip-Off
Press in 1969, Jack Jackson began writing and drawing short historical
comics about Texas history. Fantagraphics is proud to bring his graphic
histories back into print, beginning with this first volume, reprinting
two of his long-form histories.
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JUNE 27, 2012
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JUNE 27, 2012
Retail price: $35.00
save 37%
Our price: $22.04
JOURNALISM HC
Over the past decade, Joe Sacco has
increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from the
sidelines of wars around the world. Collected here for the first time,
Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one
of the foremost war correspondents working today.
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JUNE 27, 2012
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JUNE 27, 2012
Retail price: $24.00
save 27%
Our price: $17.51
