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82) City of clowns
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent...
Author
Series
Olympians volume 12
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Olympians saga draws to a close with the tale of Dionysos, the last Olympian, and maybe, just maybe, the first of a new type of God. His story is told by the first Olympian herself, Hestia, Goddess of the hearth and home. From her seat in the centerof Mt. Olympus, Hestia relates the rise of Dionysos, from his birth to a mortal mother, to his discovery of wine, his battles with madness and his conquering of death itself, culminating, finally,...
84) Sabrina
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roofof his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents;...
87) Monarca: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning artists and filmmakers Leopoldo Gout and Eva Aridjis comes an illustrated fable about a Mexican-American girl who magically transforms into a monarch butterfly for the great migration to Mexico, exploring the value of heritage, environmentalism, and personal transformation"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When you need to transport the world's most valuable, dangerous, or secretive cargo, you don't call just any trucking service... you call The Ghost Fleet. But when one of the world's most elite combat-trained truckers takes a forbidden peek at his payload, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens not just him, but possibly the entire planet!"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Unshelved volume 3
Publisher
Overdue Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The third year of Unshelved plus 24 color pages: Empire County Strikes Back, an all-new graphic novelette! Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles? Introduction by Terry Moore.."--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Injection volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, there were five crazy people and they poisoned the 21st century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try to save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life. Injection... is science fiction, tales of horror, strange crime fiction, techno-thriller, and ghost story all at the same time. A serialized sequence of graphic novels about how loud and strange the world is getting, about the wild future and the haunted...
98) Boxers
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
99) Munch
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream.' Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter -- anguished, starving and ill-treated -- to reveal the artist's neglected sense of humour...
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