Cecil and Jordan in New York
10 best books like Cecil and Jordan in New York (Gabrielle Bell): Off Season, My New York Diary, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, Drinking at the Movies, Make Me a Woman, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella, George Sprott, 1894-1975, Woman World, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 1770463313 |
Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel.
How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s...
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 1896597831 |
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT
Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in...
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Malaka Gharib |
| ISBN | 0525575111 |
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family's rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib's illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest...
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:...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0307591832 |
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over...
| Author | Vanessa Davis |
| ISBN | 1770460217 |
Make Me a Woman offers charming vignettes about being young, Jewish, and single
It's easy to understand why Vanessa Davis has taken the comics industry by storm and is poised to do the same with the world at large—her comics are pure chutzpah, gorgeously illustrated in watercolors. No story...
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.
In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken--one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his...
First serialized in The New York Times Magazine “Funny Pages”
The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running television program. The events forming the patchwork of George’s life are pieced together...
| 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...
The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is the latest book from Julia Wertz, the critically acclaimed author of The Fart Party Vols. 1 and 2 (Atomic Books, 2007 and 2009) and Drinking at the Movies (Random House, 2010). In contrast to her last book, which was a full-length graphic memoir, The Infinite Wait...
| 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 | Kelsey Wroten |
| ISBN | 1941250335 |
Kelsey Wroten’s Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self proclaimed tortured genius. Wroten tells the story of an artist struggling with the arrival of adulthood and the Sisyphean task...
| Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
| ISBN | 1549302922 |
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
Noah Van Sciver’s latest graphic novella drops in on the life of the self-styled, aspiring young writer, Fante Bukowski, as he delusively makes his way to literary fame and fortune, one drink at a time. Living in a cheap hotel, consorting with the debased and downtrodden, searching for that golden...
| Author | Noah Van Sciver |
| ISBN | 1941250270 |
In Noah Van Sciver’s new funny and heartfelt memoir, he is haunted by memories of growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family.
Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it “One Dirty Tree.” This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his...
| Author | Ancco |
| ISBN | 2360811126 |
Jin-joo est une mauvaise fille. Elle fume, découche, nargue ses professeurs et cause du souci à ses parents. Son père, un petit patron, n'a que ses poings pour exprimer sa peur de la voir mal tourner. Alors il la passe à tabac, régulièrement. La Corée subit la crise économique de la fin des années...
| Author | Charles Forsman |
| ISBN | 2390040101 |
Chemise à carreaux, veste en jean, sac sur l’épaule et casquette bien vissée sur sa tête rousse, Tasha parcourt l’Amérique et ses grands espaces. Clandestine à bord des trains de marchandises, elle vit la bohème, au rythme de ses envies et de ses rencontres, comme les Clochards célestes...
| Author | Summer Pierre |
| ISBN | 1940398762 |
It's hard to write/draw books about music and make them appeal to a wide audience. Usually it's necessary to share that author's taste in music to truly enjoy the book. Although Pierre provides precise lists of what artists & albums affected & influenced her throughout the book, it's not necessary...
