Get a Life
10 best books like Get a Life (Philippe Dupuy): American Knees, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, Kiki de Montparnasse, The Man Who Grew His Beard, Clyde Fans, Book 1, The Poor Bastard, 5 Is the Perfect Number, The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995, Mom's Cancer
Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| ISBN | 0316482943 |
I had thought Knipl was a kind of adolescent joke name from Katchor, and a good silly one, and I wouldn't have put it past him, but nope, "knipl" is more meaningful, Michael Chabon tells us in his lovely introduction, it means "nest egg" and as he points out, that fits for comics, and maybe especially for...
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0393324036 |
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
| Author | Catel |
| ISBN | 2203396210 |
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,...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606994468 |
The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s first American book, having staked a reputation over the last decade as one of Europe’s most talented storytellers. It collects seven short stories, each a headspinning display of craft and storytelling that mixes early twentieth-century...
Just along King Street at number 159 you will find the old storefront of the Clyde Fans Company. It's been locked up for years now and most people would naturally assume that it's completely abandoned. Look closer. Peer in through the display window into the dimly lit office and there on the far wall you...
| Author | Joe Matt |
| ISBN | 1896597440 |
This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable...
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 1896597688 |
A romanzo straight from the Italian streets where the melancholy dreams of Mafiosi become nightmares.
A young hired hitman with a handsome new revolver by his side lies dying in the gray and narrow streets of Naples. His father gave him that gun for his birthday. The gun never fired a shot and...
The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 1896597130 |
"One of the medium's brilliant mavericks." --Time.com
The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 0810958406 |
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...
| Author | Pat Mills |
| ISBN | 1840236272 |
From renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Slaine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) comes a truly classic piece of graphic storytelling, by turns thrilling, horrifying and deeply moving. In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to enlist and fight on the battlefields...
| Author | Kevin Huizenga |
| ISBN | 1894937864 |
"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time.com
Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes...
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 2844140858 |
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
| Author | Marilyn Chin |
| ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
| Author | Paul Karasik |
| ISBN | 0571226337 |
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
Credo che fosse il 1991, l’anno in cui ho incontrato Paul Auster per la prima volta: La musica del caso.
E fu subito amore.
Amore grande: c’erano in Auster umori che in letteratura mi sembravano insoliti, fuori, e oltre, che all’epoca...
| Author | John Porcellino |
| ISBN | 1894937910 |
The definitive collection of the influential comic zine
John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details, revealing...
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
| Author | Doreen Baingana |
| ISBN | 0767925106 |
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin's dictatorship.
Three...
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 0340127864 |
Selected from Snoopy Come Home (where are all these original collections?)
Snoopy has a lot of trouble with his neighbors in this book, including some birds holding meetings. Snoopy considers warning others about their diabolical plans--then concludes that eventually we'll find out anyway.
This...
Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection
| Author | Jorge Cham |
| ISBN | 0972169504 |
You may be aware of the PhD Comics strip that's syndicated in papers around the world and comes to you in web form. This is the first of three full-length books of reprinted strips and chronicles the 'early years' of PhD life. I typically find Cham's work hilarious, though was let down by this collection....
| Author | Michel Rabagliati |
| ISBN | 1896597874 |
Michel Rabagliati delivers another charming, thinly veiled memoir.
Michel Rabagliati crafts stories that are easily accessible to both young-adult and adult audiences with his semifictional protagonist, Paul. In Paul Moves Out he takes another step into adulthood by moving out of his...
| Author | Raymond Briggs |
| ISBN | 0241106982 |
A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonists
"Gentleman Jim" is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in life, devotes his time to envisioning a world beyond it. His walls are lined with books like "Out in the Silver West,"...
