BodyWorld
10 best books like BodyWorld (Dash Shaw): Imagine: How Creativity Works, What It Is, A Child's Life: Other Stories, Amphigorey, And the Pursuit of Happiness, X'ed Out, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, Ice Haven, The Playboy
Imagine: How Creativity Works
| Author | Jonah Lehrer |
| ISBN | 0547386079 |
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 1897299354 |
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...
A Child's Life: Other Stories
| Author | Phoebe Gloeckner |
| ISBN | 1583940286 |
Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material.
Long respected as one of the finest and most original of today's underground...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
And the Pursuit of Happiness
| Author | Maira Kalman |
| ISBN | 1594202672 |
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,...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307379132 |
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow.
What’s...
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
| Author | Twyla Tharp |
| ISBN | 0743235274 |
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...
32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics
| Author | Adrian Tomine |
| ISBN | 1896597009 |
In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace:...
Welcome to Ice Haven! “It’s not as cold here as it sounds,” declares Random Wilder, our reluctant guide to this sleepy Midwestern town. He’s also its would-be poet laureate. Would-be, that is, were it not for the “florid banalities” of his archrival, Ida Wentz, published ad nauseam...
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 0969670117 |
read this in the bookstore and didn’t buy it shhhhhh don’t tell
I really like Chester Brown and the sort of uncomfortable honesty of his memoir-ish comics is way more appealing to me than that of R. Crumb, who feels more like an actual slime ball. That being said, this entire graphic novel...
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
| Author | Liz Prince |
| ISBN | 1891830724 |
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? started out as an exercise in keeping a personal comic journal of the finer points of a relationship, but quickly evolved to become Liz Prince's first solo full length comic. Described as a mix between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, Liz's comic is made up of short...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 1891830414 |
I liked this a lot because it very clearly illustrated how people lie to themselves (and therefore the other person) at the start of relationships; they want to be a better person, so they tell the person that they're better than they are. They say, "I don't do drugs anymore," or "I have no interest in that...
American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 1
A deluxe compilation of the first five years of James Kochalka's ground breaking daily diary comic strip.
Since October 1998, James Kochalka has kept a daily diary, drawn in comic strip form in his sketchbook. Drawn with relaxed and beautiful brushwork, these strips perfectly capture the rhythm...
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
| Author | Andy Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0810933519 |
My kids are ooohh-ing and aaahh--ing behind me right now looking at the amazing art photographs in this book. We want to try to do some of this art. Amazing and beautiful stuff!
NOTE: If you can get your hands on a DVD called Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, get it and watch it. It is Andy Goldsworthy...
| Author | Kevin Huizenga |
| ISBN | 1894937864 |
"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time.com
Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes...
| Author | Paul Karasik |
| ISBN | 0571226337 |
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
Credo che fosse il 1991, l’anno in cui ho incontrato Paul Auster per la prima volta: La musica del caso.
E fu subito amore.
Amore grande: c’erano in Auster umori che in letteratura mi sembravano insoliti, fuori, e oltre, che all’epoca...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1897299540 |
Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly’s “best of” lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0375422951 |
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...
