Apollo's Song, Part One
10 best books like Apollo's Song, Part One (Osamu Tezuka): The End of the Fucking World, Beautiful Darkness, Woman World, Why Art?, Cinquemila chilometri al secondo, Seven to Eternity, Vol. 2: Ballad of Betrayal, あるかしら書店, L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1985-1987, Agony, Irmina
The End of the Fucking World
| Author | Charles Forsman |
| ISBN | 1606996673 |
'At 16, I pretended to fall in love with Alyssa.'
Meet James and Alyssa, two teenagers facing the fears of coming adulthood. As their story is told through chapters which alternate each character's perspective, however, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
| Author | Aminder Dhaliwal |
| ISBN | 1770463356 |
The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men
With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1683960823 |
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things....
| Author | Manuele Fior |
| ISBN | 8876181717 |
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book.
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Seven to Eternity, Vol. 2: Ballad of Betrayal
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1534303219 |
Adam Osidis and the Mosak travel the blasted lands of Zhal to deliver the Mud King to the only force strong enough to undo his strangle hold on his army of mind slaves. But the Mud King isn't called "the God of Whispers" for nothing, and his poison runs deep, so deep even as to affect the Mosak. The choices they...
| Author | Shinsuke Yoshitake |
| ISBN | 4591154440 |
その町のはずれの一角に、「あるかしら書店」があります。このお店は「本にまつわる本」の専門店。店のおじさんに「○○についての本ってあるかしら?」ってきくと、たいてい「ありますよ!」と言って奥から出してきてくれます。今日もあるかしら書店には、いろんな理由で本を探しにお客さんがやってきます。
この本屋さんでは、「あったらいいな」という本や夢いっぱいのグッズが、次から次へと飛び出します。月明かりの下でしか読めない「月光本」、読書に付き合ってくれる「読書サポートロボ」、ふたつの本を合わせて初めて読むことができる「2人で読む本」などなど、読んだらきっと「本ってやっぱりいいよねぇ」と言いたくなってしまうエピソードが満載。大人気の絵本作家ヨシタケシンスケさんの豊かな発想力がめいっぱい詰まった、ますます本が好きになってしまう一冊です。.
L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1985-1987
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730943 |
Dans le premier tome publié en 2014 et qui couvre la période 1978-1984, le petit Riad est ballotté, de sa naissance à ses six ans, entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Le deuxième tome, paru en 2015, raconte sa première année d’école en Syrie (1984-1985).
Dans ce troisième...
| Author | Mark Beyer |
| ISBN | 0394754425 |
Colson Whitehead's introduction is superb as a way of helping us understand what Beyer may have been trying to do with this comic, collected from the eighties. He notes identifying markers such as its inclusion in Raw, The fabulous Furry Brothers stoner comic, Charles Burns's Nutso Boy, even Beckett....
Die ehrgeizige Irmina reist Mitte der 1930er Jahre nach London, um eine Ausbildung zur Fremdsprachensekretärin zu beginnen. Dort lernt sie Howard aus der Karibik kennen, dem sie sich im Streben nach einem selbstbestimmten Leben verbunden fühlt. Durch den klugen und zielstrebigen Oxfordstudenten...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
