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1) By Night #12
Language
English
Description
Eisner-Award winning author John Allison (Giant Days) and artist Christine Larsen (Adventure Time) join forces for a story about coming home, discovering identity, and accidently smashing a hole to another dimension. Aspiring documentarian (and actual Chemistry major) Jane has recently reunited with her former best friend Heather, amateur urban explorer. When a trip into an abandoned industrial building leads them to another world, their plan begins...
Publisher
Immedium
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This book is a landmark. It does more than illustrate a so-called counter-cultural event. Rather, it exhibits the integrity and singleness of vision of a complete work of art. I think that a sophisticated public is ready for this. It is among the first to get things right. It does not merely display Burning man in pictures or explain it in words: it manifests the spirit of our culture through its style."
-Larry Harvey, co-founder and director of...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Haytham al-Aswad is a young boy like any other, growing up in the Syrian town of Deera: he plays soccer, hangs out with his friends, and is studying for an upcoming test. But when the revolution breaks out and people take to the streets to protest the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad, Haytham suddenly goes from kicking the ball to dodging bullets. His activist father is forced into exile, and the rest of the family eventually join him in France, where...
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An artist's unique take on the museum experience: people watching Author and artist David Prudhomme meanders through the Louvre, feeling as if in the panels of a giant comic while he himself is creating his own is this graphic novel. In this institution, all manner of people from all over the world rub elbows quietly. So Prudhomme decides to cruise through the museum, not to look at the world famous art, but to observe the people and their interaction...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an invisible man. He's a man that no one ever notices. He is transparent, whatever he does. This is rather a difficult cross to bear! One night, the man who so wants to be seen loses it. He's had enough. He wants to feel things too! His outburst costs him an ankle injury, which in turn leads him to Berenice, the lovely young physiotherapist. She soon sets him straight: we are all victims in one way or another! Gregory Mardon develops...
6) Sour Apple
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
By all appearances they are a happy couple. Married, religious, hardworking. What happens behind closed doors, however, is a secret, even to those closest to them. "Kwane jabko" (Sour Apple), written by Jerzy Szyak and illustrated by Joanna Karpowicz, tells a story of domestic abuse, a story of a victim and persecutor. This story of violence spiraling out of control brings no hope, instead playing on emotions and powerful illustrations, painted with...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1982. Leiva, Manu and El Canijo are three friends who always go everywhere together. They share their struggles, concerns, hopes, and fears. And their greatest fear of all is the end of the world, predicted by American preachers to occur on the afternoon of October 2, 1982. With the help of a few everyday objects, they will build masks, suits and everything necessary to survive the final judgment at all costs. Although not everything will end as they...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
At the age of 8, Jean-Pierre is leading a blossoming life, subject to the rhythm of nature, in a village that provides enough stories and space to feed his child's imagination. There is the church in the middle of the village - the monument to the dead. A single primary school class, an authoritarian and mustachioed teacher, fights between boys, and slaps from conceited little girls. Jean-Pierre is in love with his mum, as all little boys are, and...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The class of 1997 is newly graduated from Bronson Alcott High School, and with the temperatures rising and the summer starting, Cher and besties Dionne and Tai are heading off for their last summer vacation adventure together before, ugh, real life! Picking up after Clueless: Senior Year, head back to the '90s for summer fun and fashion from superstar writers Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex) and Amber Benson (The Witches Of Echo Park), and illustrated...
Series
Gustav and Henri volume 1
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract in this humorous graphic novel series about best friends, Gustav and Henri (short for Henrietta!). Meet Gustav and Henri. This is their book.
It's a bit about friendship and a lot about snacks (especially Nachos!).
They love doing normal things together, like:
finding a lost shuttlecock IN SPACE!
returning an overdue library books 100 YEARS AGO!
or making cakes IN THE BATH!
You know, completely boring things.
Join them...
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Queen Bee is excited to do a fancy dance with her best friend in the talent show. But they can't agree on the moves or the music. Will Beena learn how to work with her friend in time for the show?
In the Queen Bee series, Beena loves all things royal. Whether she's hosting a party or helping a friend, she adds a touch of fancy wherever she goes.
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Hubeau looks after her 40-year-old handicapped son, Michel. Despite many happy moments, her daily life is far from easy, but she faces it with unparalleled courage and generosity. This is a beautiful homage to all the admirable people fighting in the shadows.
13) Heart Transplant
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
School bullying is universally decried, bemoaned, and condemned. Newspapers, magazines, television, and movies all reflect the ugly truth ... bullying is not only on the rise, but becoming more dangerous every day. Whether it's a teenager committing suicide as a result of a Facebook posting or a group of schoolchildren taunting another autistic child and filming it for the "entertainment" of others, the longest-lasting, deepest-scarring impact of...
14) So Buttons #8
Publisher
So Buttons Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Jewish, Yom Kippur, Pork Dumplings, Lon Chaney, London After Midnight, Frankenstein, Jack Pierce, The Exorcist, Dick Smith, Rick Baker, Tom Savini, zombie, 9-11, Man of a Thousand Faces, James Cagney, Boston Terrier, Driving, Dogs,
15) Keeping Two
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected...
16) Okay, Andy!
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Andy and Preston are back for a brand-new nutty adventureonly this time there are two of them! Well, not two Prestons. Because Preston has decided that from now on, he is also going to be called Andy. Guess who doesnt like this, AT ALL? As Andy tries to convince Andy that he should be the only Andy, the buddies share noisy fun, talk about rabbits, and the confusing arrival of Dr. Turkeyfeet?
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fans of Stillwater and Essex County comes a new graphic novel reuniting writer Adam Smith and artist Matt Fox, the duo behind the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Long Walk to Valhalla, for a riveting story about a man attempting to survive the complicated and dangerous web of his family's criminal ties with his soul intact.
Myers Carpenter is a bootlegger who just inherited his family's bar and must turn to his estranged mother - who he hasn't...
18) Adrift Vol1
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A poetic tale of a life at sea, exploring how travel, adventure, and chance encounters can shape both individuals and future generations. PUBLICATION IN 2 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. Gregory Mardon pays a heartfelt homage to his grandfather, who left from Northern France in the 1930s to enlist in the French Navy and went on countless globe-spanning adventures. A story full of tenderness, humor, and melancholy, told with keen insight and intimacy.
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The story of Sherman, Dorothy, Ed, Stephen, Jane, and Mr. Flavor as you've never seen it before: IN FULL COLOR! Alex Robinson's masterpiece of dreary jobs, comic books, love, sex, messy apartments, girlfriends (and the lack thereof), undisclosed pasts, and crusty old professionals remains one of the most delightful and whimsical comic stories--and with colorist Pat N. Lewis' fantastic color work, BOP is ready to return to comic stands!
20) Adrift Vol2
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A poetic tale of a life at sea, exploring how travel, adventure, and chance encounters can shape both individuals and future generations. PUBLICATION IN 2 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK. Gregory Mardon pays a heartfelt homage to his grandfather, who left from Northern France in the 1930s to enlist in the French Navy and went on countless globe-spanning adventures. A story full of tenderness, humor, and melancholy, told with keen insight and intimacy.
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