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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...

The Morrison Hotel anthology written by Leah Moore, in collaboration with the surviving members of the legendary rock band and drawn by artists from around the comic book world, will weave the band's influence into some of the lore that led to their...

'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different...

Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951491024Author Danny NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Street Noise BooksPublisher Street Noise Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524443Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 200g

An uplifting, vibrant collection by the inimitable Wednesday Holmes (@hellomynameisWednesday) Including exclusive, never-before-seen, bonus illustrations Full of warmth and light,...

Appearing for the first time in English, this book presents all 284 of Jodorowsky's Panic Fables in full color, along with an introduction by the author. He reveals how his first comics reflected his pessimism about the future and the meaning of life,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911238522Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960218Author JasonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly coloured geometric shapes everywhere. You'll see them in your dreams...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306874Author Alan BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea-the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that...

Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506704746Author Ethan YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against a backdrop of the French Revolution, they fought an...

An everyday battle of wills between a mother and child where everyone ends up a winner! Rabbit is happy doing his own thing, and he doesn't want to listen to his mum telling him to get up, get dressed, have breakfast, play outside, come inside and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047097Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the...

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about...

What do we mean by social class in the 21st century?University of Brighton sociologists Laura Harvey and Sarah Leaney and award-winning comics creator Danny Noble present an utterly unique, illustrated journey through the history, sociology and lived...

**2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner** **2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal Winner**A book for comic lovers and Japanophiles of all ages, Diary of a Tokyo Teen presents a unique look at modern-day Japan through a young...

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there...

From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes the story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy, told in an original graphic novel that recounts the history of comics and the secrets of comic book storytellingFrom...

The son of a meat market porter and an office cleaner, Peter Cruddas left Shoreditch Comprehensive School at the age of fifteen with no qualifications and a part-time job as a milkman. Today he's Lord Cruddas of Shoreditch, the founder of a GBP1.5...

"Comics' answer to Finnegan's Wake, an inspired work of obsessive genius that will take a long time to untangle." - Rob Salkowitz, Senior Contributor, FORBES "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is one of the most spectacular comics I have ever read or...

How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds...

Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and...

A vibrantly coloured yet darkly humorous comic collection about the absurdity and beauty of being alive.We've all felt the pain that comes from realising a beautiful moment will soon become a distant memory. We're all guilty of avoiding deadlines by...

Finally, Draw Longer, Draw Stronger is here! You're a cartoonist. You take care of yourself to prevent drawing injuries. You do your stretches, take regular breaks, and draw with perfect posture. What happens? You start experiencing pain when you draw...

Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380741802Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CampfirePublisher CampfireWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 164mm * 5mm

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised...

When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones has put together 50 stories of lost ships throughout history that are among...

This is an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists. It uses detailed instruction and step-by-step examples to teach key artistic methods. It is based on SCAD's world-famous sequential arts curriculum with examples of...

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet, even when compared to the most significant figures of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580727Author J SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Watson-GuptillPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 382gDimensions(mm)...

When it comes to strategy, the mistake most managers make is thinking they have one when they don't.Joan Magretta, author of the bestselling book Understanding Michael Porter, has teamed up with illustrator Emile Holmewood to capture essential strategy...

With this latest book in the SCAD Creative Essentials series from the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design, comics writer and instructor Mark Kneece gives aspiring comic book writers the essential tools they need to write scripts for sequential...

This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of...