7 Miles a Second
10 best books like 7 Miles a Second (David Wojnarowicz): The Property, Year of the Monkey, When I Arrived at the Castle, By Chance or Providence, Sugar Skull, Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, Jamilti and Other Stories, Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1770461159 |
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
When I Arrived at the Castle
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
| Author | Becky Cloonan |
| ISBN | 9780985196 |
Collecting stories by Becky Cloonan:
1. Wolves
As a lone hunter tracks an elusive beast through the forest, he reflects on his life and past love through a series of flashbacks, bringing the story to a climax that is as romantic as it is savage. This powerful short story begs for multiple...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907902 |
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish
Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
This mystery set in the world of superheroes follows a reporter investigating what happened to her father: The Black Hammer, from New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (Descender, Underwater Welder, Old Man Logan).
All answers seem to lie in Spiral City's infamous insane asylum...
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770460411 |
A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists
Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English...
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
| Author | Cynthia Carr |
| ISBN | 1596915331 |
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1897299540 |
Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly’s “best of” lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects...
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
| Author | Wendy Lower |
| ISBN | 0701187212 |
History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal cheerleader for the Führer. Then they became the Trümmerfrauen, or Rubble Women, as they cleared and tidied their ruined country to get it back on its feet. They were Germany's...
Kaboul Disco T.1: Comment je ne me suis pas fait kidnapper en Afghanistan
| Author | Nicolas Wild |
| ISBN | 8172239173 |
En 2005, Nicolas Wild, dessinateur de bande dessinée sans domicile fixe, trouve à la fois un plan squat et un boulot. Seulement c’est un peu loin : à Kaboul, dans un Afghanistan encore instable après la guerre.
Voilà donc ce jeune insouciant transporté dans une capitale en crise, chargé...
Kabul Disco #2: How I Managed Not to Get Addicted to Opium in Afghanistan
| Author | Nicolas Wild |
| ISBN | 1594654697 |
It's 2005. Nicolas Wild is a French cartoonist. He's broke and about to be homeless. He's a man without a plan. That is until destiny shows up in his email box: a paid job . . . In Afghanistan! In his graphic Travelogue series, Nicolas Wild brilliantly explores the differences between the Afghan cultures...
| Author | Inés Estrada |
| ISBN | 1683961897 |
Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book is about Elizabeth, an exotic dancer in cyberspace, and Carlos, who was just fired from the last human-staffed oil rig, attempting to keep their romance alive. When they realize that their bodies are full of artificial organs and they...
| Author | Jérôme Mulot |
| ISBN | 1683961838 |
JH and Sarah meet online regularly for virtual hookups. Obsessed with the brevity and solitariness of their connections, JH tries to convince Sarah to meet him in person. A strange seduction ensues when Sarah challenges JH to abstinence. The Perineum Technique is a meditation on intimacy in the era...
Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
. A story told in pictures: an opera singer weds a female acrobat, makes her leave show business; later, her old partner comes back and convinces her to leave her husband (with her two twin children). In the end, the singer sells fruit on the street, the male acrobat is a steel worker, and the woman and her...
| Author | Brian Selznick |
| ISBN | 0689844514 |
Victor is forever trying to escape from locked trunks, walk through walls, and perform any number of Houdini's astonishing magic tricks...without success. Then -- amazingly -- he actually meets his idol, and begs Houdini to explain himself. A mysterious locked box is the magician's only answer,...
Misfit - it's such a literal word. A person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly or a person poorly adapted to a new environment. It's a word typically loaded with shame. A word no one typically tries to own. Until now.
Lidia Yuknavitch is a proud misfit. That wasn't always the case....
