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10 best books like Big Questions (Anders Nilsen): What It Is, The Story of Art, The End of the Fucking World, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales, And the Pursuit of Happiness, Stuck Rubber Baby, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, The Hive, Ant Colony, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

What It Is
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1897299354
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true...
The Story of Art
AuthorE.H. Gombrich
This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence...
The End of the Fucking World
AuthorCharles Forsman
ISBN1606996673
'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...
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
AuthorChris Van Allsburg
ISBN0547548109
Who is Harris Burdick?

For more than twenty-five years, readers have been puzzling over the illustrations by this enigmatic artist. Thousands of children have been inspired to weave their own stories to go with his intriguingly titled pictures. And now, some of our most imaginative storytellers...
And the Pursuit of Happiness
AuthorMaira Kalman
ISBN1594202672
With her trademark style, wit, sensitivity, and spontaneity, Maira Kalman guides a whirlwind tour of American democracy.

And the Pursuit of Happiness is beloved artist and author Maira Kalman's yearlong investigation of democracy and how it works. Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections,...
Stuck Rubber Baby
AuthorHoward Cruse
ISBN1563892553
Art and story combine powerfully in this lyrical tale of a young man caught in the maelstrom of the civil rights movement and the entrenched homophobia of small-town America. Toland Polk, the son of an uneducated white carpenter, has grown up in the Southern town of Clayfield. It is the 1960s, a time of...
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
AuthorLarry Gonick
ISBN0393324036
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
The Hive
AuthorCharles Burns
ISBN0307907880
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing...
Ant Colony
AuthorMichael DeForge

The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style

In the few short years since he began his pamphlet-size comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. His brash, confident, undulating...
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
AuthorAustin Kleon
ISBN0761169253
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and...
The Push Man and Other Stories
AuthorYoshihiro Tatsumi
ISBN1896597858
A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.

Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi...
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
AuthorJocelyn K. Glei
ISBN1477800670
Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven't accomplished the most important things on your agenda by the time you leave the office? With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, 99U's Manage Your Day-to-Day will equip you with pragmatic insights for using your time wisely and making...
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
AuthorTwyla Tharp
ISBN0743235274
Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part of your life: In order...
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
AuthorHugh MacLeod
When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.MacLeod has opinions...
The Acme Novelty Library #20
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN1770460209
Jordan Wellington Lint, fifty-one, is chief executive officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and adviser before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years...
Low Moon
AuthorJason
ISBN1606991558
The acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world’s first (and likely last) chess western, originally serialized in 2008 in the New York Times Sunday Magazine “Funny Pages” section.


This...
Mister Wonderful: A Love Story
AuthorDaniel Clowes
ISBN0307378136
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally seri­alized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.

Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie,...
Goliath
AuthorTom Gauld
ISBN1770460659
A master of stripped-down, powerful storytelling reworks the David-and-Goliath myth.

Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest...
Wall and Piece
AuthorBanksy
ISBN1844137872
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City's major art museums, he's also "hung" his work at London's Tate Gallery and adorned Israel's...
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
AuthorBetty Edwards
ISBN0874774241
When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary...
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
AuthorBelle Yang
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
Mother, Come Home
AuthorPaul Hornschemeier
ISBN1593070373
With his clean, distinctive art style and poignant storytelling, up-and-coming indie comics sensation Paul Hornschemeier has earned comparisons to and accolades from today's top graphic novelists. Mother, Come Home is Hornschemeier's graphic novel debut-the quietly stunning tale of a father...
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
AuthorSabrina Ward Harrison
ISBN0375756485
I am totally enthralled with this book. I am only able to breathe in bits of it at a time. My heart wonders how I might possibly be able to survive after I return "Spilling Open" to the library. At first I flipped through the pages to look at the eye candy of this book. I thought "just another art journal book...
Everyday Matters
AuthorDanny Gregory
ISBN1401307957
In the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn't been married long. Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell. And then Patti fell under a subway train...
Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1897299648
The creative-drawing companion to the acclaimed and bestselling What It Is


Lynda Barry single-handedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic memoir/how-to, otherwise known as the bestselling, the acclaimed, but most important, the adored and the inspirational What...
Too Cool to Be Forgotten
AuthorAlex Robinson
ISBN1891830988
From the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind Box Office Poison and Tricked comes the delightful 2 Cool 2 B 4Gotten, a story of second chances.Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who's making one final attempt to quit smoking: hypnosis. He's skeptical it will work, but is stunned to find...
Bottomless Belly Button
AuthorDash Shaw
ISBN1560979151
Bottomless Belly Button is a graphic novel comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. When the parents announce their divorce, the family comes together at their beach house for a week. Dennis, the eldest son, is having marriage troubles of his own, and searches for...
The Acme Novelty Library
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0375422951
Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME...
Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found
AuthorSophie Blackall
ISBN0761163581
In her first book for adults, the artist Sophie Blackall creates a deeply felt, poignant book about love—a book that captures the mystery, the yearning, at times the cosmic humor behind the “what if?” of a missed connection.

Like a message in a bottle, a “missed connection" classified...
This Is for You
AuthorRob Ryan
ISBN0340933674
Rob Ryan's magical paper-cuts and screenprints have been used by designer Paul Smith, appeared on a Vogue model and graced book covers (The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, The World to Come by Dara Horn). This Is For You is a magical, romantic and touching story of thoughts and dreams, loneliness...
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