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10 best books like Billy Hazelnuts (Tony Millionaire): Skin Deep, The Armed Garden and Other Stories, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Low Moon, Congress of the Animals, Powr Mastrs 1, The Arctic Marauder, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick

Skin Deep
AuthorCharles Burns
ISBN1560973900
Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series.


Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with...
The Armed Garden and Other Stories
AuthorDavid B.
David B., the creator of the acclaimed Epileptic, gives full rein to his fascination with history, magic and gods, not to mention grand battles, in this literate, witty, and absorbing collection of stories — all based on historical fact, or at least historical legend, and delineated in a striking...
You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!
AuthorFletcher Hanks
ISBN1606991604
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique andunified artistic vision. He was...
Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days
AuthorAl Columbia
ISBN1606993046
This gorgeous grimoire is part alchemy, part art book, part storybook, part comic book, and part conceptual art from the pen of Al Columbia, a longtime fan favorite contributor to comics anthologies like Zero Zero, Blab , and more recently, MOME. Collecting over a decade s worth of artifacts, excavations,...
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...
Congress of the Animals
AuthorJim Woodring
ISBN1606994379
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
Powr Mastrs 1
AuthorC.F.
ISBN0978972287
According to "The Comics Reporter," "If a reader were to pick up on any one cartoonist working at a furious and considered and accomplished pace right below the radar of most comics fans, C.F. might be the best choice." This first book by C.F. (also known in the East Coast underground music scene as Kites)...
The Arctic Marauder
AuthorJacques Tardi
ISBN1606994352
In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque “retro-sci-fi” yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut...
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down
AuthorDavid Heatley
One of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection—part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography, all genius.

Long a fixture in comics anthologies, David Heatley's deceptively crude, wickedly observant drawings have begun...
Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
AuthorGeorge Herriman
ISBN1560975075
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
The Ticking
AuthorRenée French
ISBN1891830708
The Ticking is the story of Edison Steelhead, a boy who at birth takes his mother's life and his father's deformed face. Secreted away by his father to be raised in a remote island lighthouse, Edison relates to his surroundings in the only way he knows how--by capturing them in his sketchbook. Able to find...
Poor Sailor
AuthorSammy Harkham
With his Kramers Ergot series cartoonist, editor and publisher Sammy Harkham has created a comics anthology that outdoes all others - in size, style and content. Poor Sailor is his own pen and ink on bristol contribution to Kramers Ergot 4, reproduced in mini format. It is based on Guy de Maupassant's...
Last Lonely Saturday H/C (Fanta Version)
AuthorJordan Crane
ISBN1560977434
by Jordan Crane
An older man sits at his kitchen table, filled with melancholy. Dishes are piled up in the sink, a full pot of coffee burns on the counter; it's a quiet scene of existential despair. The man is a widower, and today is the day to visit his departed wife's gravesite. Little does he know that...
The Mystery of Mary Rogers
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN1561632740
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...
Mort Cinder
AuthorHéctor Germán Oesterheld
ISBN9505819951
Ezra Winston, un anticuario de Londres, es guiado por misteriosas señales hasta la tumba de un ajusticiado, un tal Mort Cinder. Este vuelve de la muerte para arrastrarlo a sombrías aventuras y para contarle historias ocurridas en el fondo de los tiempos. Obra mayor del guionista Héctor G. Oesterheld...
Garden
AuthorYuichi Yokoyama
ISBN0982632711
A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest (at...
Percy Gloom
AuthorCathy Malkasian
ISBN1560978457
Cathy Malkasian has made the jump from animation to the printed page with a graceful, delicate leap. She deftly uses her pencil to create thick, expressive characters moving through the twilight of a shadowy Orwellian world. Humorous and bewitching at the same time, Percy Gloom is a unique gem of a story....
Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Volume One
AuthorMichael Kupperman
ISBN1606991647
Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike, basking devotedly in the glow of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, have made it the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman s revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken...
Misery Loves Comedy
AuthorIvan Brunetti
ISBN1560977922
A psychiatric case study masquerading a fancy-pants graphic novel, Misery Loves Comedy collects Ivan Brunetti's early issues (no pun intended) wait, let's rephrase that. Misery Loves Comedy collects the first three issues of the legendary comic book series Schizo in their entirety, as well as a...
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