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Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Ystov, a bleak but whimsical city. The pages of this graphic novel zoom in and out, through panaramas of industry and market squares, to witness the varied lives of its curious inhabitants - lives of absurdities, restraints and small triumphs.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven--and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard."--Back cover.
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Two strangers: the Doctor, charming, eccentric Time Lord with a past as dark and heavy as a black hole; Gabriella Gonzalez, waitress and wannabe artist with a future dragging her down like lead chains. Hurled together by a wave of psychic horror haunting New York, they embark on an epic new adventure across time and space..."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Valerie lives on her own and has, shall we say, a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong. What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions,...
Author
Series
Saga of the Swamp Thing volume 6
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of issues #57-64 of SWAMP THING begins across the galaxy, where the Swamp Thing's consciousness has been hurled. Trying to find his way back to Earth, Swamp Thing stops over on Thanagar, home of Hawkman; Rann, home of Adam Strange; and encounters the Green Lantern of a world of sentient plants"--
Series
Doom patrol volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Originally conceived in the 1960's by the visionary team of writer Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani, the Doom Patrol was born a generationa later through the singular imagination of a young Scottish author -- and the result took American comics in a wholly unexpected direction. In forging their new path, the reborn World's Strangest Heroes left behind almost every vestige of normality. Though they are super-powered beings, and though their...
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