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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dali, who'd befriended Harpo. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian Tim Heidecker and Spanish comics creator Manuela Pertega, he's re-created the film as a graphic novel in all its gorgeous full-color, cinematic, surreal glory. In the story, a businessman named Jimmy (played by Harpo) is drawn to...
Author
Series
Sheriff of Babylon volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The War on Terror still rages in Baghdad as cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry must solve a deadly murder. He is forced to align himself with Nassir, the last policeman in Baghdad to try to unravel the bloody mystery. While Henry and Nassir search for answers there are forces in the shadows pulling strings that these men don't even know they're tied to. This mini-series continues with the wonderfully brutal script by Tom King (GRAYSON, THE...
23) Old souls
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Chris Olsen has a good life. He has a regular job, a wife and daughter who love him, and a promising future. By any measure this is a good life, but it isn't his first. When a troubling encounter with a homeless man triggers something inside Chris, memories of his past lives bubble to the surface. A lost Chinese boy, a wailing grandmother, and a love so powerful it never left his soul--all compete for his attention. Chris sinks deep into the seedy...
24) Radium girls
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing,...
25) Fred the clown
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica...to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead. Some are hideously mangled, as if in rage--some have been dissected in a curious and cold-blooded manner. Some are missing. But a still more horrific sight is the star-shaped mound of snow nearby...for under its five points is a grave--and what lies beneath is not human!"
27) Cicada
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Cicada is overworked, under appreciated, and generally discriminated against--but after seventeen years, it's time for a change." --Provided by publisher.
28) The third person
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she's reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, and has sought out Toby for approval for hormone replacement therapy. Emma has shown up at the therapy sessions as an outgoing, confident young woman named Katina, and a depressed, submissive workaholic named Ed. She has little or no memory of her...
Author
Series
Berlin trilogy (Jason Lutes) volume 2
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American Jazz...
30) Providence
Author
Publisher
Avatar Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying examination of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is being universally hailed as one of Moore's most realized works in which the master scribe has controlled every iota of the story, art, and presentation. The result has been a masterpiece like no other, unparalleled in tone and content, and a true must have addition to his essential works in the field.
Author
Language
English
Description
Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence. Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"--Publisher...
33) How to be happy
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A collection of literary comics exploring joy, anguish, fear, and loneliness.
34) Saga
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
NEW STORY ARC
SAGA is back, and it's time for another epic season of emotional adventures and shocking surprises for Hazel and her star-crossed family!
About the SAGA series:
SAGA has sold seven million copies to date across single issue, trade paperback, compendium, hardcover, and digital editions and has been translated into 20 languages. The series also boasts multiple Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, a Hugo Award, British Fantasy Award, Goodreads...
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
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This special deluxe release finally collects the oft-requested and long-denied “Open the Moon!” from the GUIDE TO THE KNOWN KEYS one-shot. Plus the other long-sold-out one-shot, GRINDHOUSE! PLUS plus: the even more hard-to-find IDW 10th anniversary Locke & Key tale, “In the Can!” And additional covers, behind-the-scenes photos and more, all wrapped up in a beautiful 72-page package.
38) 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
[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...
40) 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...
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