Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics
10 best books like Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics (Chris Duffy): The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood, The Harlem Hellfighters, I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Dawn Land, Templar, Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems, When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
| Author | Joe Sacco |
| ISBN | 0393088804 |
From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.
Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed...
| Author | Joel Christian Gill |
| ISBN | 1938486293 |
Strange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentary on nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in history books. Among...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419708082 |
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively,...
| Author | Max Brooks |
| ISBN | 0307464970 |
From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters
In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other...
| Author | Cynthia Grady |
| ISBN | 0802853862 |
This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith,...
| Author | Matt Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1423137353 |
San Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan.
With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly learns that his home is no longer a welcoming one. Streetcars won't stop for Koji, and his classmates accuse him of being an enemy spy. When a letter arrives from the government...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1596431431 |
Ten thousand years ago, in what would one day be known as North America, Young Hunter set out on an epic quest to overcome the Stone Giants who were terrorizing his people. Pitted against creatures of legend, Young Hunter journeyed to the innermost heart of his own humanity, even meeting the very gods...
| Author | Jordan Mechner |
| ISBN | 1596433930 |
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Revered for their nobility, their ferocity in battle, and their religious devotion, the Templars were knights of God, free of sin and pure of will.
Well, MOST of them.
Martin isn't exactly the most steadfast or pious knight, but he does manage to escape when...
| Author | Bob Raczka |
| ISBN | 1626722366 |
Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways.
Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems...
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 1452101191 |
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561632740 |
In 1841, the body of beautiful tobacco store employee Mary Rogers was found dead in New York City's East River. It was a murder that captured the popular imagination of the time - even that of Edgar Allan Poe, whose The Mystery of Marie Rogêt would deliver a fictionalized version of the case in 1842, relocating...
| Author | Henrik Rehr |
| ISBN | 1467772798 |
"I am not a criminal, because I destroyed that which was evil. I think that I'm good."--Gavrilo Princip, October 23, 1914.
This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled...
| Author | Eric Heuvel |
| ISBN | 0374322716 |
While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World...
| Author | Gareth Hinds |
| ISBN | 0763669431 |
Shakespeare's classic story of dark ambition, madness, and murder springs to life in a masterful new graphic novel by Gareth Hinds.
Set against the moody backdrop of eleventh-century Scotland, Gareth Hinds’s captivating, richly illustrated interpretation takes readers into the claustrophobic...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606995820 |
Created 15 years after the completion of his Eisner Award-winning World War I masterwork It Was the War of the Trenches, Tardi's Goddamn This War! is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new, wholly individual graphic novel that serves as a companion piece to Trenches but can be read entirely on its...
| Author | Sheila Keenan |
| ISBN | 0545128870 |
Sheila Keenan's captivating stories, paired with Nathan Fox's stunning art, bring the heroic military actions of man's best friend to life!
Some war heroes heard the wind whistling over a hidden trip wire.
Some war heroes sniffed out a sniper 1,000 yards away.
Some war heroes stood...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596436646 |
In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II.
How the World...
| Author | JooHee Yoon |
| ISBN | 1592701663 |
Poetry and children belong together, and for a long time, the music and playfulness of verse wove itself through children's days and lives. Beastly Verse aims to help return the wonder of poetry to children's lives through sixteen exquisitely illustrated poems, four of which have the surprise and...
| Author | Jean-David Morvan |
| ISBN | 1626722838 |
The first volume of a new series dedicated to exploring iconic moments in World War II history, Omaha Beach on D-Day is a fresh and captivating new take on one of the most important moments in World War II: the Allied forces storming the beach at Normandy.
The photograph at the heart of this book...
Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents!Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac? Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife, and Gerald Ford had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King....
| Author | Jing Liu |
| ISBN | 1611720273 |
Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more.
For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic...
| Author | Nick Bertozzi |
| ISBN | 1596434511 |
Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. This is his story, and the story of the dozens of men who threw in their lot with him - many of whom nearly died in the unimaginably harsh conditions of the journey....
