Bizarre Romance
10 best books like Bizarre Romance (Audrey Niffenegger): Darkwing Duck, Vol. 1: The Duck Knight Returns, Baaa, Harold's Fairy Tale, Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us: A Johnny Wander Collection, Joséphine Baker, The Stupids Have a Ball, Baa Baa Smart Sheep, 1000 Tattoos, Return of the Dapper Men, These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories
Darkwing Duck, Vol. 1: The Duck Knight Returns
| Author | Ian Brill |
| ISBN | 1608865762 |
Did you know this existed? I didn't, but I discovered it while perusing the shelves of Vancouver's wonderful Pulp Fiction books. I didn't know that I needed it in my life, but it turns out that I absolutely, positively did.
Ian Brill perfectly captures the spirit and tone of this beloved series,...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0395395887 |
where humans have gone extinct, sheep begin to take our places.
Sadly, for them, they adopt all our nasty habits - even the really DIRTY stuff like banking and politics!
(How this is all accomplished without opposable thumbs is anyone's guess . . .)
As you might imagine,...
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0064433471 |
From the treasured creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes another adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Unable to fall asleep one night, Harold uses his purple crayon to create his very own bedtime fairy tale, complete with castles, fairies, flying...
| Author | Ananth Hirsh |
| ISBN | 1620103834 |
In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander. Eight years, four cats, and three moves are chronicled in this gorgeous hardcover omnibus, which includes a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Ghosts). Hirsh and Ota's charming reverie about new adulthood will appeal...
| Author | José-Louis Bocquet |
| ISBN | 2203088400 |
Joséphine Baker a 20 ans quand elle débarque à Paris en 1925. En une seule nuit, la petite danseuse américaine devient l'idole des Années Folles, fascinant Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier ou Simenon. Dans le parfum de liberté des années 1930, Joséphine s'impose comme la première star noire...
| Author | Harry Allard |
| ISBN | 0808534998 |
A is for Allard
The Stupids Have a Ball by Harry Allard and James Marshall, as reinterpreted by Betty Lou from Circulation
Beware, Thar be... you know what? Forget it. Onward!
The book begins with a scathing indictment of the national education system as well as parenting as both children...
Recommended to me by a family member who is a 4th grade teacher. This book is hilarious! I can see it from others point of view on here that we wouldn't want a child talking anyone into eating their poo... but if you want to take this children's book to that depth, then consider another view. A lesson in gullibility....
| Author | Henk Schiffmacher |
| ISBN | 3822841072 |
An exploration of tattoos past and present Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This special 25th anniversary edition of Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs...
| Author | Jim McCann |
| ISBN | 1932386904 |
Welcome to Anorev, a world in between time, where children have played so long it’s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. This is how this land has remained, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky and...
| Author | Jim Knipfel |
| ISBN | 1439154120 |
From the irresistibly droll mind of Jim Knipfel comes These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales, a series of twisted fables that echo with pinpoint acuity. A masterful storyteller whose memoirs and novels have earned him widespread acclaim, this is Knipfel’s first foray into...
| Author | Nicolas de Crécy |
| ISBN | 1561634832 |
For the first time in the US, ComicsLit brings over the latest enfant terrible of European comics, a mad genius, and for the first time, the Louvre museum is involved in a co-edition of a series of graphic novels. There will be four and each will be a vision of this great museum by a different artist. De Crécy,...
LUCILLE es un vivo retrato de uno de los problemas clave entre la juventud actual: la anorexia y el autorechazo. De la mano de un joven Debeurme, consolidado ya como una de las grandes promesas de la “nouvelle B.D.” francesa, esta cautivadora novela gráfica nos acerca a la vida de una adolescente...
In the Garden of Happiness
| Author | Dodinsky |
| ISBN | 1492602620 |
As an emerging leader in positive thinking, New York Times best selling author Dodinsky weaves the words of contentment and self-empowerment. In his second book, Dodinsky takes his readers on a journey to the garden of happiness. Within this garden, Dodinsky gives his readers the wisdom and support...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1616554312 |
Set in 1932, this is the story of two misfits with no place to call home, who build a relationship during a train hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California.
Pearl "Soupy" Plankette ran away from her abusive father, but has nowhere to...
The Green Hand and Other Stories
| Author | Nicole Claveloux |
| ISBN | 1681371073 |
Nicole Claveloux s short stories originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us...
As head of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Dr. Laura Regan is one of the world's foremost authorities on viral and bacteriological study. Having dedicated her career to halting the spread of infectious disease, she has always considered herself one of the good guys. But when her research...
| Author | Peter Kuper |
| ISBN | 1906838984 |
Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that...
| Author | Chris Gooch |
| ISBN | 1603094202 |
A haunting portrait of millennial alienation, tinged with body horror and Greek tragedy, glamour and terror.
Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs, and desperate for a change. Her old friend Natalie made it out, living in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business,...
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 1451678878 |
Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule.
After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia,...
Wylie Kogan is an aspiring artist, stumping for work in 1963 California (think Mad Men, but with palm trees). When a fawning fan letter grants him access to his cartoonist hero, the celebrated Joseph Ahlstrom, he's quick to take advantage of a proffered portfolio review... but winds up learning more...
| Author | Jen Lee |
| ISBN | 1907704973 |
In a disheveled and ransacked backyard, a dog named Simon has been forgotten by his owners. Simon breaks free and partners with a raccoon and a deer who take him into the woods. But Simon realizes he is not quite ready to live in the wild. And in the abandoned areas of the town strange things begin to happen....
Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
| Author | Monte Beauchamp |
| ISBN | 1451649193 |
In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever.
No one has told the story of comic art in its own medium, until now. In Masterful Marks, top illustrators—including...
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 1606994034 |
Condemned to a hopeless eternity of roaming the seven seas, a crew of undead pirates gains an unexpected new member!
A vengeful God having refused to grant them the sweet release of eternal repose, these bloodthirsty buccaneers continue an endless rampage of murder and pillaging--until...
