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10 best books like Dockwood (Jon McNaught): Gender Queer, Shoplifter, Sugar Skull, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, The Hive, Arsène Schrauwen, The Playboy, A Fire Story, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

Gender Queer
AuthorMaia Kobabe
ISBN1549304003
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
Shoplifter
AuthorMichael Cho
Corrina Park used to have big plans.

Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is . . . copy. Corrina...
Sugar Skull
AuthorCharles Burns
ISBN0307907902
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish

Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
AuthorMalaka Gharib
ISBN0525575111
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...
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 Hive
AuthorCharles Burns
ISBN0307907880
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing...
Arsène Schrauwen
AuthorOlivier Schrauwen
ISBN1606997300
In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke....
The Playboy
AuthorChester Brown
ISBN0969670117
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...
A Fire Story
AuthorBrian Fies
ISBN1419735853
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal...
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
AuthorKen Krimstein
For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century.

One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely...
You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
AuthorTom Gauld
ISBN1770461043
“Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton.”—NPR, Best Books of 2013

A new collection from the Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist

The...
DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test
AuthorHamish Steele
ISBN1910620475
Barney and his best friend Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all--their love lives!

Follow the lives of this diverse group of employees of a haunted house, which...
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AuthorFabcaro
ISBN2413008039
Que fait un bébé éléphant dans la salade ? Quels sont les ingrédients pour s'assurer un horrible voyage en TGV ? L'Inde ou le Yémen, quel pays visiter pour pouvoir mieux frimer ? On découvre sous un angle inédit, à la sauce Fabcaro, la rentrée littéraire, la rentrée sociale, l'alimentation...
Home After Dark
AuthorDavid Small
ISBN1631496271
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who...
The Lie And How We Told It
AuthorTommi Parrish
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
The Black Holes
AuthorBorja González
ISBN8417125647
Gloria, Laura y Cristina quieren montar una banda de aires punk llamada The Black Holes. Tienen todo lo que se precisa: actitud, presencia, instinto... y una debilísima formación musical. Apenas empiezan con los ensayos, un aura extraña invade su día a día: la reminiscencia de algo que ocurrió...
Soy la vida
AuthorElisabeth Helland Larsen
ISBN8415208979
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Hamilton Illustrated
AuthorDavid Collier
ISBN1894987705
David Collier has long been a fixture in Hamilton, whether wandering through the streets, paddling though Hamilton harbour or biking through the city only to stop suddenly to pull out a sharp pencil and a well-worn sketchbook. His artist's eye is drawn to the beauty of the city and to the warmth of the...
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