Grandville Mon Amour
10 best books like Grandville Mon Amour (Bryan Talbot): Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon, Aetheric Mechanics, How Loathsome, Fairy Tales, Spera, Volume 2, Scarlet Traces, The Best American Comics 2013, The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, The Best American Comics 2009
| Author | Phil Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856371 |
The Adventure, Romance & Mad Science continues as Agatha Heterodyne's damaged aircraft comes roughly to rest in the Wastelands. She encounters a traveling circus and proves her mettle by destroying a massive spider-clank as it attacks. Back at the airship city, a frustrated Baron Wulfenbach...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606993828 |
Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of the same, Adele has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adele having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1592910483 |
The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel. Doctor Robert Watcham, lately returned to London from the front, makes his homecoming to Dilke...
| Author | Ted Naifeh |
| ISBN | 1561633860 |
The new series by the artist of Gloom Cookie and Courtney Crumrin! Do the town with gender outlaw Catherine Gore and her disreputable friends. It's Friday night and Catherine is dragged to an S&M play party to see what passes for sex these days. There, the beautiful, enigmatic fem fatale Chloe takes...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871406586 |
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant...
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In their quest for adventure, Princess Pira and Lono--along with their companions, the fire spirit Yonder and warrior cat Chobo--have made their way to the big city. There they must contend with strange laws, stranger men and the strangest monsters if they wish to join...
| Author | Ian Edginton |
| ISBN | 1569719403 |
This is perhaps the strangest "War of the Worlds" sequels that I've ever seen, told in graphic form. Taking place in England after the events of that story, it's actually about the disappearance of a young woman. Or, it's about a strange version of The Great Game of conquering the world.
As the first...
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 0547995466 |
I'm always happy to see a new volume in this series. Whether one agrees that these are literally the "best" comics of the year or not, it's certainly at least an anthology of excellent work. Styles tend to skew more towards the arty, but if you don't like a particular piece, just skip to the next one. Some...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0618517456 |
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
As Fujimaru dives deeper into investigating the enigmatic "Bloody Monday" data, the stakes are raised when his sister is abducted. The terrorists demand Falcon complete a hacking job for them in exchange for his sister. Time is short as his sister is in urgent need of dialysis. Can Fujimaru break free...
| Author | John Arcudi |
| ISBN | 1401226833 |
After a mysterious disaster, a young man named Eric finds that he has just as mysteriously developed extraordinary abilities. He starts out trying to help people, but his solitary position in the world isolates him in ways no average human could understand. This story charts the arc of the evolution...
| Author | Kazuo Koike |
| ISBN | 1593074891 |
A failed assassination attempt brings into Freeman’s possession Muramasa, the Devil’s Sword, an ancient samurai blade that brings misfortune and death to any who possess it. Wishing to spare Freeman and tame the sword’s malevolent spirit, Tiger Orchid, Freeman’s wife, takes the blade...
| Author | Enki Bilal |
| ISBN | 2203353449 |
Rendez-vous à Paris, annoncait le précédent épisode de la saga. Et de fait, c’est bien dans la capitale française que l’on marche sur les traces de Nike. Un Nike transformé, sous influence ; malgré une apparence de liberté, c’est l’emprise warholienne qui s’exerce encore sur le...
In Chapter Three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401229999 |
The final deluxe hardcover collection of Brian K. Vaughan’s spectacular series mixing politics and superheroes.In this last deluxe EX MACHINA hardcover, Mayor Mitchell Hundred descends into the NYC sewers to learn why he was given the strange powers that helped him become the heroic Great Machine...
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1401209998 |
Flex Mentallo is a fun idea. I loved how his origins mixed in with the ads in the back of old comic books. I also dug the return of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. and the Brotherhood of Dada. The pltos do have a tendency to repeat. A villain appears that spouts a bunch of nonsense while trying to destroy reality...
