Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
10 best books like Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (Tom Devlin): Here, My Brother's Husband, Volume 1, Rusty Brown, Clyde Fans, Chroniques de Jérusalem, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Starlings, Turning Japanese, Lève ta jambe, mon poisson est mort! (Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!)
| Author | Richard McGuire |
| ISBN | 0241145961 |
Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name.
Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989.
Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it...
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1
| Author | Gengoroh Tagame |
| ISBN | 1101871512 |
Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224078135 |
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!
‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one’s sanity
Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes,...
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 2756025690 |
Guy Delisle et sa famille s’installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4000 ans. Au
détour d’une ruelle, à la sortie d’un lieu saint, à la terrasse d’un café,...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560971169 |
Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into...
| Author | Jo Walton |
| ISBN | 1616960566 |
An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats.
With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling...
| Author | MariNaomi |
| ISBN | 1937541169 |
MariNaomi’s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90’s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening.
In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose, California. Soon enough, she falls...
Lève ta jambe, mon poisson est mort! (Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!)
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 0969670133 |
Julie Doucet's first book collection, featuring a selection of strips culled from her cult comic book series Dirty Plotte is just as odd as it's title suggests. You'll find it all in here: fatal kisses, early misadventures with tampons, ecstatic lovemaking with giant beer bottles, and a host of other...
Drawn Together: The Collected Works of R. and A. Crumb
| Author | Aline Kominsky-Crumb |
Who could have imagined that in 1972, when Aline Kominsky, a Long Island escapee and bodaciously talented artist, broke her foot one rainy fall day, it would result in the most unique collaboration in comics history? Laid up in her house, she was persuaded by R. Crumb, her nerdy, neurotic boyfriend,...
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0765335298 |
Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own, from the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Severin Unck’s father...
| Author | Lilli Carré |
| ISBN | 1606995979 |
The creator of 2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon named to many annual critics lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today.
Carré’s...
Sleepwalk and Other Stories
| Author | Adrian Tomine |
| ISBN | 1896597122 |
I closed Adrian Tomine's Sleepwalk and Other Stories feeling depressed, something in Tomine's negativity, his view of the disconnect inherent in the relationships between his characters and contemporary life filled me with a (temporary, I hope) despair. These short graphic stories are deeply...
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 1609803809 |
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"
The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"
The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
| Author | Sarah Glidden |
| ISBN | 1770462554 |
"An intricate investigation of how the reality of conflict gets filtered through personal, political, and journalistic narrative...This work—quiet but challenging, plain yet beautiful—exemplifies [Glidden's] skillful, sensitive reportage."—Library Journal Starred Review
Cartoonist...
My Brother's Husband, Volume 2
| Author | Gengoroh Tagame |
| ISBN | 1101871539 |
The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan--Yaichi's brother-in-law--changes their lives and perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.
As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning...
Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development
| Author | Duane Brown |
| ISBN | 0205498418 |
A comprehensive, up-to-date text written by a leading expert in the field. This new edition contains a stronger emphasis on technology and on cross-cultural issues, and has an increased emphasis on application. The text carefully describes the process of finding and securing jobs in an electronic...
