Everything is Flammable
10 best books like Everything is Flammable (Gabrielle Bell): Off Season, You & a Bike & a Road, Coyote Doggirl, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir, The Customer is Always Wrong, Imagine Wanting Only This, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, Why Art?, Boundless, Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
| 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 | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1927668409 |
In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation.
Eleanor Davis...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770463257 |
Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir
A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist.
In this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her...
The Customer is Always Wrong
| Author | Mimi Pond |
| ISBN | 1770462821 |
A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism
The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
Imagine Wanting Only This
| Author | Kristen Radtke |
| ISBN | 1101870834 |
A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief
When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0544577833 |
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack,...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1683960823 |
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things....
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770462872 |
Jenny, post-breakup, becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser,...
Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
| Author | Dominique Goblet |
| ISBN | 2844142338 |
Maintes fois annoncé, Faire semblant c'est mentir est le résultat d'un travail autobiographique réalisé par Dominique Goblet sur douze ans. Le temps joue un rôle complet dans ce livre où recherches stylistiques et narratives se mêlent au déroulement du récit. Faire semblant c’est mentir...
The Lie And How We Told It
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. .
| Author | Sophia Foster-Dimino |
| ISBN | 1927668468 |
Sorry, it's more about intimacy than it is about actual sex, though it is about attraction and a very few sexual acts. It's mainly, I think, about cartooning, actually, and what comics/cartoons can convey. Based on her zines on this topic.
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Keiler Roberts doesn’t do slice of life; she gives you the whole pie.
Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens’ sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts’ gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life’s...
Dumb: Living Without a Voice
| Author | Georgia Webber |
| ISBN | 1683961161 |
Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the practical hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her increasingly...
