Glacial Period
10 best books like Glacial Period (Nicolas de Crécy): The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, The Underwater Welder, Cinquemila chilometri al secondo, Ces jours qui disparaissent, unastoria, La terra dei figli, Three Shadows, L'Autre
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece, which won the Hugo for best novella in 1974, is also top-notch. It imagines a future completely ruled by corporations, where advertising is illegal, because life is advertising—companies use celebrities...
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 1897299214 |
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country. While living in the nation's capital...
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 0224079913 |
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French...
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1603090746 |
The New York Times Bestseller returns in a stunning new hardcover edition, featuring bonus pages and new cover art by Jeff Lemire!
WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE.
As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea...
| Author | Manuele Fior |
| ISBN | 8876181717 |
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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Ces jours qui disparaissent
| Author | Timothé Le Boucher |
| ISBN | 2344013326 |
Que feriez-vous si d’un coup vous vous aperceviez que vous ne vivez plus qu’un jour sur deux ? C’est ce qui arrive à Lubin Maréchal, un jeune homme d’une vingtaine d’années qui, sans qu’il n’en ait le moindre souvenir, se réveille chaque matin alors qu’un jour entier vient de s’écouler....
UNASTORIA sono due storie. Quella di Silvano Landi, uno scrittore che alla soglia dei cinquant'anni vede la sua vita andare in pezzi e quella del suo antenato Mauro, soldato nella carneficina della Prima guerra mondiale. Sotto i cieli di una natura magnifica e crudele, ieri come oggi, Gipi racconta...
Gipi racconta e disegna la visione di un imprecisato futuro post catastrofe che è lo specchio esasperato del nostro presente. La fine della civiltà è arrivata, non sappiamo come. L’aria è piena di mosche, l’acqua di cadaveri e di veleni. Un padre e due figli ragazzini sono tra i pochi superstiti:...
Back then, life was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the smell of the river... That was how we lived, in a vale among the hills—sheltered from storms, ignorant of the world, as though on an island, peaceful and untroubled.
And then...
And then everything changed.
Can...
Manu Larcenet s'attaque pour la première fois à une adaptation, celle du chef-d'oeuvre de Philippe Claudel, Le Rapport de Brodeck. Mais lorsque l'auteur de Blast et du Combat ordinaire s'empare du texte, c'est pour le faire sien et lui donner une nouvelle vie, éclatante, sombre et tragique. Des...
| Author | Alfred |
| ISBN | 2756031526 |
Début des années 60. Suite à la mort de leur père, deux frères, Fabio et Giovanni, sillonnent les routes au volant d'une Fiat 500. Leur voyage, émaillé de disputes et de silences, de souvenirs et de rencontres, les conduira jusqu'à leur Italie natale, quittée depuis des années. Par bribes,...
Les ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée
| Author | Étienne Davodeau |
| ISBN | 2754803823 |
Étienne Davodeau est auteur de bande dessinée, il ne sait pas grand-chose du monde du vin. Richard Leroy est vigneron, il n'a quasiment jamais lu de bande dessinée.
Mais ces deux-là sont pleins de bonne volonté et de curiosité. Pourquoi choisit-on de consacrer sa vie à écrire et dessiner...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1401274188 |
New York Times best-selling writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, RED, THE AUTHORITY) returns to DC to curate Jim Lee's WildStorm world, resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, the Engineer, Jenny Sparks and more!
Everyone is looking up.
A man has been...
Le Combat Ordinaire [Intégrale]
| Author | Manu Larcenet |
| ISBN | 2205062360 |
La réédition du Combat Ordinaire avec une couverture inédite : un chef-d'oeuvre de la bande dessinée contemporaine sur le rapport à soi et au monde. Jeune photographe de guerre, Marco a vu trop d'horreurs. Écoeuré, il se retire du monde, avec son chat, pour essayer de se reconstruire. Sur cette...
| Author | Nate Powell |
| ISBN | 1603090339 |
Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unraveling. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive...
| Author | M.K. Perker |
| ISBN | 1595823573 |
Peter Kolinsky is among the world's foremost experts on rare books, so expert that he had a prestigious job at one of the country's biggest auction houses, until black-market dealers took an interest in him. Since losing his job and narrowly avoiding jail time, Peter's lived a lonely life in a tiny apartment,...
| Author | Levent Cantek |
| ISBN | 9750523059 |
Kardeşinin intiharı üzerine Ankara’ya gelmiş bir İstanbullu. Yel midir, toz mudur anlamıyor şehrin hırgürünü, siyasetin imlasını, upuzun hutbelerini.
1951, çok eski ve çok uzak durmayan bir muammanın, her şeyin kullanılıp atıldığı bir dünyanın hikâyesi....
| Author | Manu Larcenet |
| ISBN | 2205075403 |
Manu Larcenet se confronte à une adaptation, celle du chef-d'oeuvre de Philippe Claudel, Le Rapport de Brodeck. Mais lorsque l'auteur de Blast et du Combat ordinaire s'empare du texte, c'est pour le faire sien, et lui donner une nouvelle vie éclatante, sombre et tragique. Des pages d'une beauté...
