Flood!: A Novel in Pictures

10 best books like Flood!: A Novel in Pictures (Eric Drooker): Unterzakhn, Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Fables, Vol. 14: Witches, Sleepwalk and Other Stories, Hubert, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Fatherland, Cinquemila chilometri al secondo, Upgrade Soul

AuthorLeela Corman
ISBN0805242597
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.

For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of...
Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1302915231
The world fell in love with her in Marvel’s Black Panther. Now, T’Challa’s techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! T’Challa has disappeared, and everyone...
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......
Fables, Vol. 14: Witches
AuthorBill Willingham
ISBN1401228801
Winner of Fourteen Eisner Awards

Toil and Trouble
In the wreckage that was once Fabletown, the sinister Mister Dark is building a web of fear and anger that threatens to ensnare any Fable that strays too close. Cut off from the Woodland building's business office and its trove of magical...
Sleepwalk and Other Stories
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1896597122
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...
AuthorBen Gijsemans
ISBN9077549870
A beautiful graphic novel by Belgian Gijsemans about a man, Hubert, possibly autistic, living alone, who loves art and spends time going to art museums in Belgium and Paris. He takes photographs of some of his favorites, some of which feature women, and he paints some of these images for himself. He is...
AuthorNoah Van Sciver
ISBN1606996193
The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state's legislature as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions under...
AuthorNina Bunjevac
ISBN0224098349
In 1975 Nina Bunjevac’s mother fled her marriage and her adopted country of Canada and took Nina back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Peter, her husband, was a fanatical Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country at the end of World War II and migrate to Canada. But even there...
AuthorManuele Fior
ISBN8876181717
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book. 

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Upgrade Soul
AuthorEzra Claytan Daniels
ISBN1549302922
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
Frankenstein
AuthorJunji Ito
Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley!

The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster — and the fouler beast who created him — to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro for which he is known.

Also included are six tales of Oshikiri...
Incognegro
AuthorMat Johnson
Strange Fruit
Southern Trees bear a strange fruit.
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
Black body swinging in the southern breeze.
Strange fruit hanging from the Poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth.
Scent...
Fashion Beast
AuthorAlan Moore
ISBN1592912117
A LOST MASTERPIECE FROM THE CREATOR OF WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, AND FROM HELL

Alan Moore's lost masterpiece comes to life as an incredible comic book series almost three decades later! The mid-80's were a stunning period of brilliance for Alan Moore, seeing him create true masterpieces including...
Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art
AuthorRoman Muradov
ISBN1941250106
Jacob Bladders: illustrator, braggart, and victim of assault by thugs sent by the mysterious Charlie. Part satire of commercial art, part noirish detective story, part puzzle to be solved or left in pieces. Roman Muradov's latest is an ink-smeared Blakean vision of 1940s New York where Twitter exists...
Tout Seul
AuthorChristophe Chabouté
ISBN2749304296
An entire life spent alone on a rock. What's he do all day?

This graphic novel is stunning.

First published in France in 2008, Alone was just translated into English this year, and I'm grateful I had the chance to read this beautiful book. It's about a disfigured man who lives alone in...
Mooncop
AuthorTom Gauld
ISBN1770462546
"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs...
The Spirit, Vol. 1
AuthorDarwyn Cooke
ISBN1401214614
Nope. Not feeling this one.
Which is a shame, 'cause I really loved DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1.
This thing just felt sort of awkward. Like maybe it was trying to be a sort of parodyish spoof of an old-timey comic...or something.

The whole thing was a collection of one-shot issues that...
Message to Adolf, Part 1
AuthorOsamu Tezuka
ISBN1935654438
It is 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. A Japanese reporter named Sohei Tohge is covering the Berlin Olympic Games for the Japanese press. As he sits in the Japanese press box watching the many track and field events of the day, he receives a call from his younger brother Isao, who has been studying in Germany...
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