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Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The signature creation of New Zealand cartoonist Roger Langridge, Fred the Clown is the thinking man's idiot. Fred has an eye for the ladies, as well as several other organs, but the only part of themselves that the ladies are willing to share with him is a carefully placed kneecap! Absurd and hilarious.
2) Portugal
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed Equinoxes comes a return to roots that serves as spiritual renewal. Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comic's convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is a foreigner there, so...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Compulsive Comics collects the very best of Eric Haven's inverted-comic book-consciousness and genre-bending short stories. Includes the controversial story "I Killed Dan Clowes," where the main character fatally hits acclaimed graphic novelist Daniel Clowes and then immediately goes on to accidentally kill another fan favorite, Adrian Tomine. Haven's surrealist, self-reflexive, and superbly rendered comics surprise at every turn and showcase an inherent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For the past 40 years, acclaimed graphic novelist and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen--until now. Set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring presents selected pieces from this secret archive, lovingly worked over using materials and processes outside of the scope of his beloved comics work. Threaded with commentary by...
5) Chivalry
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup"--
6) Mooncakes
Author
Series
Publisher
Lion Forge LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers? bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place...
7) Solid state
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two guys, connected by a name and hundreds of years, somehow stand at the end of man's beginning, and the beginning of man's end. But...it's funny? Also kind of a nightmare. But mostly funny? A funny science-FACTion nightmare about the end of everything, but how that's all kind of okay."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small town carnivals and big city sideshows--is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks (produced by MGM of all studios in 1932 and directed by Tod Browning, his first feature after the horror classic Dracula), in which all of the sideshow performers were real, not actors. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie's...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue ink washes, the form reveals the author to...
10) March: Book one
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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