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In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander. Eight years, four cats, and three moves are chronicled in this gorgeous hardcover omnibus, which includes a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Ghosts). Hirsh and Ota's...

The ongoing sequel to cult film, El Topo, from cult-favorite filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. "Oh, father, I cannot kill you, but I can kill your son . . ." El Topo was a bandit without limits, a man with no moral compass, but when his journey through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965633Author Anders NilsenFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450762557Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

What is sex? Has it always existed? What purpose does it serve? Why are there penises and vaginas? These questions are at the very core of Dirty Biology, an erudite (and hilarious) graphic novel that aims to teach you everything you wanted to know about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861662463Author Marcel RuijtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 773g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621067399Author Anne Elizabeth MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581441Author David F. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198379Author Keiji NakazawaFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963813Author Spain RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

From within King's Reach Tower on the banks of the Thames, John Sanders masterminded the output of Britain's biggest comics publisher over twenty-five years.Overseeing the launch of hugely popular titles like Tammy, Battle and the revolutionary 2000 AD,...

A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by writing on the origins and details of each hell. Whether it's...

Here is New York as you've never seen it before; the New York behind the New York that you think you know so well. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Julia Wertz regales us with dozens of street scenes that show exactly what the city looked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780262260Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801422Author Samuel BercholzFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

THE AWARD WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FATHER, AND THE CHALLENGES HE FACES RAISING HIS AUTISTIC SON. A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967736Author Maria BamfordFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.My Life in Transition is a story that's not often told about trans lives: what happens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506715698Author Stephanie PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

E = mc(2) . A world-changing equation and a wild head of hair are all most of us know about one of history's greatest minds, despite his being a household name in his lifetime and an icon in ours. But while the broad outlines of what Einstein did are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121918Author Laurent QueyssiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684056996Author Lun ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck is one of Belgium's most significant artists, famous for his early contributions to the Northern Renaissance movement of the 15th century. His polyptych classic, the Ghent Altarpiece (or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095273Author Emilia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Told for the first time in graphic novel form, the story of Francis Bacon's life is as complex, colorful, and highly charged as his paintings. Drawn in shades of mauve, red, yellow, and blue that distinguished his palette, these illustrations weave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122519Author Claire FauvelFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Like a lot of people, Miu has had trouble learning regression analysis. But with new motivation in the form of a handsome but shy customer and the help of her brilliant caf (c) coworker Risa, she s determined to master it. Follow along with Miu and Risa...

Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty.About the AuthorBorn in New York City, Will Eisner (1917-2005)...

A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love. The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196449Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

After his release from the Saint-Paul asylum in 1890, Vincent Van Gogh wandered the French countryside before stumbling on the Ravoux Inn. Although still plagued by mental illness, he found some peace and joy there among his adoptive family, painting...

One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator...

Told through wit and humor and 100% illustrations, Hooray for Craft Beer! is an entertaining and informative journey through the history and world of craft beer. Readers will explore every aspect of beer from the ingredients and brewing process to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501166433Author Michael KuppermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gallery 13Publisher Gallery 13Weight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 36mm

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that...

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantanamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780...

Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.Zen Pencils: Living a Creative Life is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Pencils...

Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns with another chapter in his growing library of reflective memoir, producing his most compelling and strongest tale to date. Chronicling a year of heartbreaks, writer's block, career highs, emotional lows, and the...

Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, "Battle Lines" is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988247960Author Anthony Del ColFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lev Gleason PublicationsPublisher Lev Gleason Publications