Delphine

10 best books like Delphine (Richard Sala): Beautiful Darkness, The Undertaking of Lily Chen, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, The Squirrel Machine, Beauty, Low Moon, The Last Musketeer, Bottled, Girl Town, Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back

Beautiful Darkness
AuthorFabien Vehlmann
ISBN1770461299
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
AuthorDanica Novgorodoff
ISBN1596435860
In the mountains of Northern China ancient custom demands that every man have a wife to keep him company in the afterlife.

Deshi Li's brother is dead—and unmarried. Which means that Deshi must find him an eligible body before the week is up.

Lily Chen, sweet as a snakebite, needs money...
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
AuthorStephen Collins
ISBN0224096281
The job of the skin is to keep things in.

On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.

Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable......
The Squirrel Machine
AuthorHans Rickheit
ISBN1606993011
An anachronistic parable for the convulsive elite. What is the squirrel machine? Is it a rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one’s guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable? A meaningless diversion?

Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, the narrative initially...
Beauty
AuthorKerascoët
ISBN1561638943
When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help...
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...
AuthorJason
ISBN1560978899
After his existential thriller (Why Are You Doing This?), his Parisian famous-writers crime caper (The Left Bank Gang), and his time-travel story (I Killed Adolf Hitler), Jason's fourth full-color album may feature his loopiest premise yet.


Set in the present, The Last Musketeer stars...
Bottled
AuthorChris Gooch
ISBN1603094202
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,...
Girl Town
AuthorCarolyn Nowak
ISBN1603094385
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.

Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back
AuthorCullen Bunn
ISBN1506706630
The dramatic conclusion to the series about Emmy--the Good Witch of much haunted and harrowing Harrow County, her friend Berenice, the Skin Boy, and a bunch of scary, sometimes bloody creatures. The last volume focuses, not surprisingly, on the mortal combat between Emmy and the original hanged witch,...
Black Is the Color
AuthorJulia Gfrörer
ISBN1606997173
Black Is the Color begins with a 17th-century sailor abandoned at sea by his shipmates, and as it progresses he endures, and eventually succumbs to, both his lingering death sentence and the advances of a cruel and amorous mermaid. The narrative also explores the experiences of the loved ones he leaves...
Exquisite Corpse
AuthorPénélope Bagieu
ISBN1626720827
Zoe isn't exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. It's also why she doesn't know that Rocher is supposed to be dead. Turns out, Rocher faked his death years ago to escape his critics,...
Come Again
AuthorNate Powell
ISBN1603094288
The first and only comic book artist ever to win a National Book Award returns with a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.

As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers among the aging hippies of one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks....
Long Walk to Valhalla
AuthorAdam Smith
ISBN1608866920
Can you see the Pretty Things?

There are many things that Rory would like to forget about his childhood growing up in rural Arkansas. He'd like to forget his alcoholic father or absent mother. He'd like to forget about his ex-girlfriend, now married to his ex-best friend. Sometimes, he'd even...
Harrow County, Vol. 7: Dark Times A'Coming
AuthorCullen Bunn
ISBN1506703976
Things are heating up in this supernatural fantasy as young heroine Emmy Crawford prepares to face off against old foes in the horror-plagued town of Harrow County

Something evil has returned from the grave and joins forces with Emmy's wicked family for a brewing monster war! Will she be able...
Demeter
AuthorBecky Cloonan
Demeter is the latest addition to Becky Cloonan’s Ink and Thunder series of black and white digital comics and though this is the third in the series, after 2011’s Wolves and 2012’s The Mire, each is a standalone one-shot so even if you haven’t read the previous two, you can still jump straight...
Harrow County, Vol. 6: Hedge Magic
AuthorCullen Bunn
ISBN1506702082
Well, well, well: The sixth volume of the harrowing Harrow County comes into my hands, just in time for Halloween, heh heh heh. Emmy is a good witch in this creepy but also somehow tender southern gothic tale, protecting her town, trying to keep her haints in control. Until now, when friend Bernice loses...
Iron: Or, the War After
AuthorS.M. Vidaurri
IN A WORLD OF CONSTANT WINTER...

When an intelligence spy from the Resistance--the rabbit, Hardin--steals secret information from a military base of the Regime, his actions set off a chain of events that reverberates through the ranks of both sides, touching everyone from the highest-ranking...
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