Gemma Bovery

10 best books like Gemma Bovery (Posy Simmonds): Becoming Unbecoming, Alice in Sunderland, Exit Wounds, Apartment 16, Off Season, Goodbye, Janette, I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation, Sorcières - La Puissance invaincue des femmes, Kiki de Montparnasse, The Story of My Tits

Becoming Unbecoming
AuthorUna
ISBN1908434694
A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt

It’s 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it’s a really...
Alice in Sunderland
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1593076738
Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and...
Exit Wounds
AuthorRutu Modan
ISBN1897299060
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment...
Apartment 16
AuthorAdam Nevill
ISBN0330514962
Some doors are better left closed—a spine-chilling horror novel from a new talent

In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in and no one comes out, and it's been that way for 50 years, until the night a watchman hears a disturbance after...
Off Season
AuthorJames Sturm
ISBN1770463313
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...
Goodbye, Janette
AuthorHarold Robbins
ISBN0671874888
With her keen instincts and rich sensuality Tanya Pojarska survived the fires of World War II and gained control of a vast fortune. Her two daughters inherited her beauty, her passion--and a legacy of pain and ambition. From a childhood of stark sexual terror, Janette rose to wealth and fame as a high-fashion...
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation
AuthorNatalie Nourigat
The story of one woman’s quest to move to Los Angeles and got a job in animation...and how you can too. 

When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world...
Sorcières - La Puissance invaincue des femmes
AuthorMona Chollet
ISBN2355221227
Qu’elles vendent des grimoires sur Etsy, postent des photos de leur autel orné de cristaux sur Instagram ou se rassemblent pour jeter des sorts à Donald Trump, les sorcières sont partout. Davantage encore que leurs aînées des années 1970, les féministes actuelles semblent hantées par...
Kiki de Montparnasse
AuthorCatel
ISBN2203396210
Kiki de Montparnasse, née Alice Prin au tout début du XXe siècle, fut l’une des figures les plus marquantes de la vie artistique parisienne de l’entre-deux guerres, lors des Années Folles. Égérie et amie de très nombreux artistes – Modigliani, Duchamp, Desnos, Picasso, Cocteau, Aragon,...
The Story of My Tits
AuthorJennifer Hayden
ISBN1603090541
A landmark work of graphic memoir and a cancer narrative that pulls no punches.

When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they’d held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and...
Ethel and Ernest
AuthorRaymond Briggs
ISBN0375407588
Poignant, funny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his parents' lives from their first chance encounter in the 1920s until their deaths in the 1970s.Ethel and Ernest are solid members of the working class, part of the generation (Brokaw's "Greatest...
The Pervert
AuthorRemy Boydell
ISBN1534307419
The Pervert is a comics novel—a collection of vignettes, really--about a trans girl in transition, training to be a nurse, who supports herself through sex work. The story is told through anthropomorphic animals, which makes the story no more “cute” than Spiegelman’s Maus. She’s from...
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
AuthorGuy Delisle
ISBN1770461175
Meditations on fatherhood from the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

With A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle’s landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries...
Mom's Cancer
AuthorBrian Fies
ISBN0810958406
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.

This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
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...
California Dreamin'
AuthorPénélope Bagieu
ISBN2070657582
This is originally in French which is funny considering that Cass Elliot and the Mamas and the Papas were American. I am a huge fan of Cass and the Mamas & Papas. I enjoy listening to them all the time. Yet, I still did not know their story. To me they were this successful group and for some reason I never...
Manfried the Man
AuthorCaitlin Major
In this hilarious graphic novel, the roles of cats and humans are reversed, putting humanoid felines in charge of tiny, dimwitted little man-pets.

Manfried is a stray taken in by Steve Catson, a slacker with a dead-end job and nonexistent love life. Soon Manfried becomes the Garfield to Steve’s...
Les Récrés du Petit Nicolas
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN2070513351
L’école, c’est pour les copains. Pour cette raison évidente, Nicolas aime beaucoup l’école, surtout pendant les récrés.
Mais les récrés d'Agnan, Eudes, Alceste, Joachim, Maixent, Rufus, Clotaire, Geoffroy et du petit Nicolas ont-elles lieu entre les cours ou pendant les cours...
Le Bal des folles
AuthorVictoria Mas
ISBN2226442103
Chaque année, à la mi-carême, se tient un très étrange Bal des Folles. Le temps d'une soirée, le Tout-Paris s'encanaille sur des airs de valse et de polka en compagnie de femmes déguisées en colombines, gitanes, zouaves et autres mousquetaires. Réparti sur deux salles - d'un côté les idiotes...
Young Frances
AuthorHartley Lin
After insomniac law clerk Frances Scarland is recruited by her firm's most notorious senior partner, she seems poised for serious advancement — whether she wants it or not. But when her impulsive best friend Vickie decides to move to the opposite coast for an acting role, Frances' confusing existence...
Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
AuthorDominique Goblet
ISBN2844142338
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
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. .
Le guide du mauvais père, tome 4
AuthorGuy Delisle
ISBN2413002804
Toujours aussi parentalement incorrect, Guy Delisle retrouve son rôle préféré : meilleur (mauvais) papa du monde ! Sa recette : une bonne dose de mauvaise foi, des colères importunes, un tas de gamineries et surtout BEAUCOUP d’humour !
Défier son fils aux jeux vidéo quand il travaille,...
Terrible Means
AuthorB. Mure
ISBN1910395439
In the city of Ismyre, something is stirring...

An aristocratic businessman reveals the latest must have: a pillar of crystals that when placed within a home allows for the creation of beautiful illusions and more powerful spells to be performed. At the same time, Henriett, a disgraced biological...
Couleur de peau: miel, Tome 1
AuthorJung
ISBN2849469505
Jun Jung-sik errait dans les rues de Séoul quand un policier l’a pris par la main pour l’emmener au Holt, un orphelinat américain. Il avait alors 5 ans. Quelques photos, un rapport d’orphelinat… Ses souvenirs tiennent à un fil. Mais les questions le taraudent.
2007 : Jung décide de...
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
AuthorJ.P. Donleavy
ISBN0802137962
The New York Times Book Review called The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J. P. Donleavy's hilarious, bittersweet tale of a lost young man's existential odyssey, "a triumphant piece of writing, achieved with that total authority, total mastery which shows that a fine writer is fully extended...."...
Best Bear Ever!: A Little Year of Liz Climo
AuthorLiz Climo
ISBN0762463627
Come spend some time in Liz Climo's world! The artist and popular blogger returns with another collection of her comics--this time following the seasons with her most beloved characters.

Fans love Liz Climo's charmingly funny animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World...
Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN2070513343
D'abord, il y a eu l'hôtel Beau-Rivage, à Bains-les-Mers, et les nouveaux copains: Blaise, Fructueux, Mamert, Irénée, Fabrice et Côme. Puis un essai manqué de germination de haricot avant de repartir avec la colonie du Camp Bleu où l'on s'amuse drôlement.
Elles sont vraiment terribles,...
L'armée du nécromant
AuthorAlexandre Astier
ISBN2203370157
Ce premier album nous permet de faire connaissance avec les personnages principaux et habituels de Kaamelott de manière à les présenter aux lecteurs non initiés tout en proposant aux inconditionnels une situation inconnue jusque là. L’Armée du Nécromant, composée de zombies, défie...
Chroniques de l'île perdue
AuthorLoïc Clément
Sacha et Charlie, deux jeunes frères, font une croisière avec leurs parents. Soudain, une terrible tempête éclate : leur bateau sombre et tous deux échouent séparément sur de mystérieux rivages... A la recherche de son petit frère, Sacha va devoir lutter contre d'étranges entités malveillantes,...
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