City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
10 best books like City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (Paul Karasik): Imagine: How Creativity Works, What It Is, A Child's Life: Other Stories, And the Pursuit of Happiness, Heartbreak Soup, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, Special Exits, The Playboy, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
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...
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 | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1560977833 |
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is finally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez'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:...
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
| 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...
| 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...
I have the feeling that from time to time I will need to look at all of the Dash Shaw books I have read and not appreciated and rethink my evaluations of them. This one I think might be my favorite so far, though it may just be that I am starting to gain a greater appreciation for what he is doing. I never know exactly...
| Author | Dylan Horrocks |
| ISBN | 0969887442 |
World-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry in the few short years since the publication of his first CAPTAIN TOMORROW graphic novel. But behind his rapid rise to success, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as biographer Leonard...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1896597726 |
Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide, and he's hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and by his side to guide Ernie through these difficult days. These...
The Acme Novelty Library #1
The first issue of the Novelty Library focuses on Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid On Earth, though only two pages of this issue were later collected in the Jimmy Corrigan novel. In the main 24 page color story we see scenes from his life -- as a young boy, as a young man, as middle-aged man, and as on old man....
| 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...
