Gonzo
10 best books like Gonzo (Will Bingley): The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Manhunter, Vol. 2: Trial by Fire, The Beats: A Graphic History, Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume 2, The Stars' Fault, The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan, Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
| Author | Joe Sacco |
| ISBN | 0393088804 |
From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.
Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed...
| Author | Barbara Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0060953322 |
Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories." A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers...
| Author | Harvey Pekar |
| ISBN | 1603090916 |
A lifelong Cleveland resident, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic since 1976 in his ongoing American Splendor series. Harvey Pekar''s Cleveland is sadly one of his last, but happily one of his most definitive graphic novels. It combines classic...
Manhunter, Vol. 2: Trial by Fire
| Author | Marc Andreyko |
| ISBN | 1401211984 |
The Shadow Thief is on trial for the murder of Firestorm and it's up to Kate Spencer to make sure he's found guilty but some of his friends are on the way. Meanwhile, someone's murdering past Manhunters...
The second Manhunter volume is even better than the first. Kate learns more about her costume's...
| Author | Paul M. Buhle |
| ISBN | 0809094967 |
The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 0809095084 |
Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twentieth century, and in Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, the renowned comic artist Rick Geary uses his distinct...
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1906838437 |
Out of the uncharted places of the world and the prodigious imagination of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, renowned master of the eerie, come nine nightmarish tales of terror. From the dreaded remnants of long-dead civilisations to unhallowed monstrosities scheming in the darkness, Lovecraft's stories...
A 10-year old fighting cancer. A space captain fighting for his species. Can they conquer their enemies before it’s too late?
When Fen’s cancer returns, he knows he’ll need all the help in the world to defeat it. Despite the support of his family and friends, things look bleak until he...
| Author | Bill O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 1627796991 |
The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength...
| Author | Simon Morrison |
| ISBN | 0547391315 |
Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in...
| Author | William McKeen |
| ISBN | 0393061922 |
Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and...
The actual "stories" themselves are wonderful, witty, and synthesize wry social commentary with architectural theory and history.
But the preface, the commentary at the beginning of chapters, and other "text blocks" - almost ruin this book for me. It will probably turn people off to what...
| Author | Sharon E. McKay |
| ISBN | 1554514886 |
This is the graphic novel edition of Sharon McKay's novel set in Uganda, where Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish times that the fates of 5 boys and a girl...
| Author | Rick Ross |
| ISBN | 1499651538 |
Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography is an intimate look at the day-to-day dealings of a drug kingpin in the heart of the ghetto. It's also the story of a boy born in poverty Texas who grew up in a single-parent household in the heart of South Central, who was pushed through the school system each...
| Author | W. Cleon Skousen |
| ISBN | 1489503528 |
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by...
| Author | Jeff Johnson |
| ISBN | 1681626667 |
Enigmatic, charming, and brutally resourceful, Knottspeed is a man on a mission. He also happens to be dead, but the rumors of his demise have been slightly exaggerated--by the man himself as the key to his plan.
A problem-solver, a finder of lost people and rare things, and an accomplished...
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
| Author | Irving Wallace |
| ISBN | 1851522387 |
This encyclopedia looks at the sexual habits, deviations and quirks of nearly 200 famous, notorious or otherwise distinguished people from all walks of life. Each entry describes the subject's fame and achievements, and within this context examines their sexual activities. The entries are preceded...
| Author | Alan Light |
| ISBN | 1101904879 |
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.
From music journalist...
| Author | Michael D'Antonio |
| ISBN | 1250081394 |
In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry,...
| Author | Jonathan Cott |
| ISBN | 0385536372 |
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those...
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 1609803787 |
The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel Huckleberry Finn is adapted uncensored for...
| Author | Andrew Helfer |
| ISBN | 0809095041 |
Assassinated at age forty in 1965. Malcolm X battled the horrifying legacy of African American slavery throughout his short life. Malcolm's passage from troubled boy to influential, outspoken man and finally to tragic hero is captured in the drawings of the award-winning graphic artist Randy DuBurke,...
The Gonzo Papers Anthology
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 1447200527 |
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times.
In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, "The Great...
| Author | Roland Owen Laird Jr. |
| ISBN | 1402762267 |
Still I Rise is a critically acclaimed work with an impressive scope: the entire history of Black America, told in an accessible graphic-novel form. Updated from its original version—which ended with the Million Man March—it now extends from the early days of colonial slavery right through to...
