Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: May 20, 2008 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71471-9 (0-375-71471-5)
From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 308 pages
Publisher: Vertical On Sale: July 17, 2012 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-935654-45-2 (1-935654-45-4)
Kiyoha may wear the similar fancy kimono-dresses but she is not your everyday geisha. The hairstyle may be the same and she may have some of the finest clientele comparable to those of the most refined women in all of Kyoto, but she is not in the home of geisha and...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: February 10, 2009 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-84856-068-0 (1-84856-068-0)
Discover how director Zack Snyder (300) and his crew faithfully recreated the intricately detailed world and characters of the legendary graphic novel in the eagerly awaited film.
From the New York City of an alternate 1985 to the surface of Mars, the film adaptation of Watchmen is a triumph of design, filled...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vertical On Sale: September 30, 2008 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-934287-35-4 (1-934287-35-0)
The Complete Aranzi Hour is a massive 252-page, full-color collection of humorous adventures starring the popular Aranzi Aronzo characters from The Cute Book, Cute Dolls, and Machine Gun series. The Cute Book alone is in its 4th printing, and its success is due in no small part to the Aranzi recipe...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: DC Comics On Sale: September 20, 2011 Price: $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-4012-3246-7 (1-4012-3246-9)
After a mysterious disaster, a young man named Eric finds that he has just as mysteriously developed extraordinary abilities. He starts out trying to help people, but his solitary position in the world isolates him in ways no average human could understand. This story charts the arc of the evolution of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: July 4, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71468-9 (0-375-71468-5)
Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes...
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Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 4, 2005 Price: $28.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-42318-5 (0-375-42318-4)
From the highly-acclaimed French comics artist, a moving and powerful graphic memoir that describes growing up with an epileptic brother in France in the late 60s and 70s and the devastating effects of his illness on the entire family. David B. was born Pierre-Francois Beauchard in a small town outside of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vertigo On Sale: February 8, 2011 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-4012-2969-6 (1-4012-2969-7)
A Library Journal 2011 Best Book — Graphic Novel
Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’ life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: For Beginners On Sale: April 17, 2012 Price: $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-934389-62-1 (1-934389-62-5)
In a combination of witty text and crisp illustrations, U.S. Constitution For Beginners takes a tongue-in-cheek look at America’s most critical legal document. Author and lawyer Steve Bachmann has written a text that touches on the document’s history beginning all the way in 1215 AD with the Magna Carta. He then...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: For Beginners On Sale: July 20, 2010 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-934389-50-8 (1-934389-50-1)
A profusely illustrated, popularly-written volume with original comic art, FDR and The New Deal For Beginners will shed new light upon a story now regaining visibility thanks to the recent economic crisis and prominent reformer, President Obama, in the White House.
The history of the precedent-making FDR administration through the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 8, 2008 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71472-6 (0-375-71472-3)
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s...
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: October 18, 2005 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-42380-2 (0-375-42380-X)
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s...
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Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: October 9, 2012 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-90788-2 (0-307-90788-0)
From the creator of Black Hole ("The best graphic novel of the year." —Time; "Burns's masterwork." —The New York Times Book Review), the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color.
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing...
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Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-37913-9 (0-307-37913-2)
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color. Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 100 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books On Sale: February 5, 2013 Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-1-58834-352-9 (1-58834-352-9)
Darwin: A Graphic Biography is an expedition into the physical and intellectual adventures of Charles Darwin. Presenting Darwin’s life in a smart and entertaining graphic novel, the book attempts to not only educate the reader about Darwin but also the scientific world of the 1800s.
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books On Sale: October 17, 2004 Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-58834-183-9 (1-58834-183-6)
A panorama of some of the most creative and subversive art of our times, this one-of-a-kind anthology celebrates the artistry and insight of comic book art, graphic novels, and graphic journalism from the 1960s to the present. Classics such as R. Crumb’s I Remember the Sixties, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Campfire On Sale: July 27, 2010 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-93-80028-23-1 (93-80028-23-7)
Alice was just an ordinary girl - imaginative and curious and thirsting for adventure. She was an ordinary girl, that is, until she found herself instantly transported to a place that was anything but ordinary.
After diving down a rabbit hole, young Alice encounters a magical world ruled by a vicious...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Emblem Editions On Sale: September 27, 2011 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-7710-1959-3 (0-7710-1959-9)
A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman’s perspective.
In March of 1943, Scott Chantler’s grandfather, Law Chantler, shipped out across the Atlantic for active service with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along with his best friend, Jack, a fellow officer...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Frog Books On Sale: July 9, 2003 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-58394-072-3 (1-58394-072-3)
In this graphic novel that helps teens make sense of world events, nine fictional high school students reflect the variety of feelings about the events of September 11.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: September 24, 2002 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71452-8 (0-375-71452-9)
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 18, 2011 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71469-6 (0-375-71469-3)
Welcome to Ice Haven! “It’s not as cold here as it sounds,” declares Random Wilder, our reluctant guide to this sleepy Midwestern town. He’s also its would-be poet laureate. Would-be, that is, were it not for the “florid banalities” of his archrival, Ida Wentz, published ad nauseam in the Ice Haven...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: April 12, 2011 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-37813-2 (0-307-37813-6)
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he’s just...
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Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: July 6, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-935554-07-3 (1-935554-07-7)
It may sound like a familiar story -- boy goes to Hollywood, boy befriends big star, boy gets almost as famous as the big star, boy finds fame tricky -- but T Cooper’s first graphic novel is subversively different. For one thing, the “boy” is a polar bear. For another thing...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: April 3, 2012 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4259-1 (0-8052-4259-7)
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York’s Lower East Side circa...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Campfire On Sale: July 27, 2010 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-93-80028-20-0 (93-80028-20-2)
Robinson Crusoe is not content with his life in England. He is bored and wants to see more of the world. His curiosity convinces him to leave his homeland and travel abroad.
Without telling his parents, young Robinson sets off on a voyage of discovery. During the years that follow he...
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