Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories

10 best books like Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories (Ben Katchor): Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF, Ladycastle, Dinotopia: The World Beneath, Step Aside, Pops, Jane, Jughead: The Hunger, Vol. 1, One More Year, Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather, Our Expanding Universe, Jimmy Olsen (2019-) #1

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF
AuthorAmy Reeder
ISBN1302900056
LUNELLA LAFAYETTE IS AN INHUMAN PRETEEN GENIUS WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD!

That job would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent Inhuman gene. There's no telling what she'll turn into - but Luna's got a plan. All she needs is an Omni-Wave Projector. Easy, right? That...
AuthorDelilah S. Dawson
ISBN1684150329
When the King and all the men of the castle die, it’s time for the women to knight up.

When King Mancastle and his mighty vassals ride off on a crusade, the women left behind are not at all put out—that’s a lot less armor polishing to do. Of course, when the men get themselves eaten by a dragon...
AuthorJames Gurney
ISBN0060530650
After they are shipwrecked on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, Professor Arthur Denison and his son, Will, discover an awe-inspiring new world where dinosaurs and humans have lived together peacefully for centuries. They have only begun to adjust to this remarkable civilization before heading...
Step Aside, Pops
AuthorKate Beaton
ISBN1770462082
The sequel to the hit comic collection Hark! a Vagrant, which appeared on best of lists from Time, NPR and USA Today; spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list; and won Harvey, Ignatz, and Doug Wright awards.

Cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that...
Jane
AuthorAline Brosh McKenna
ISBN1608869814
A reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre set in present day, written by acclaimed screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and Eisner Award-winning illustrator Ramón K. Pérez.

Growing up in a broken home in a small fishing town, Jane dreamed of escaping to art school and...
Jughead: The Hunger, Vol. 1
AuthorFrank Tieri
Archie's Madhouse brings the first collection of the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters.

Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite... but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives...
One More Year
AuthorSimon Hanselmann
ISBN1606999974
One More Year is Simon Hanselmann’s latest Megg & Mogg collection, full of new subversive stoner comedy stories. Like the last one, Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam, One More Year is pretty decent though unfortunately doesn’t reach the heights of Megahex.

The thing is: three books in...
Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather
AuthorRon Zimmerman
ISBN0785110690
Good Lord, this book is Hilarious! I was literally laughing my ass off the whole time! I used to read old "Rawhide Kid" "Kid Colt" and "Two-gun Kid" comics many years ago when I was a kid, so I saw this graphic novel at Half Price Books and I saw it was in Marvel's "MAX" line of more adult type comics, so what the...
Our Expanding Universe
AuthorAlex Robinson
Alex Robinson’s best known book, the unbearably long and outdated Box Office Poison, featured a group of boring people talking about their boring lives – hey, it was the ‘90s when that sorta thing was hip and fresh! Years later and Robinson’s back with a (thankfully) much shorter book about...
Jimmy Olsen (2019-) #1
AuthorMatt Fraction
Jimmy Olsen must die!

 Wait, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Jimmy Olsen lives! Superman’s best friend and Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen tours the bizarre underbelly of the DC Universe in this new miniseries featuring death, destruction, giant turtles and more! It’s...
Jimmy Olsen (2019-) #2
AuthorMatt Fraction
"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.

Education...
Jughead: The Hunger, Vol. 2
AuthorFrank Tieri
Archie's Madhouse brings the second collection of the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters.

Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite... but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the...
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #3
AuthorMatt Fraction
Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today in this catalog to remember our friend, Superman's pal, the late Jimmy Olsen...'s assassination decoy! Wait, somebody killed Jimmy's decoy body? But whodunit? And, like, whydunit? And...wait, when did Jimmy get a decoy of himself? What we do know is it's...
Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling
AuthorJim Ross
There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that’s just not JR.

Known as the voice of the WWE, Slobberknocker is the story of Jim Ross’s...
Instrumental
AuthorDave Chisholm
ISBN1940878152
In the small hours of the morning, on a headlong collision into history, ambition, and magic, a trumpeter wails in the apocalypse.
-You are making it happen. All the deaths. All the destruction.-
Tom is a solid, but not great, musician. While his bandmates are happy to play gigs for themselves...
Cool Tokyo Guide: Adventures in the City of Kawaii Fashion, Train Sushi and Godzilla
AuthorAbby Denson
ISBN4805314419
Discover the city of temples, video games, manga, and cosplay with this graphic Tokyo travel guide!

Tokyo is an astonishing world unto itself—a city for lovers of Japanese culture, fashion and great food that mixes the best of old and new. In Cool Tokyo Guide, Abby Denson, author of the popular...
Joe Gould's Teeth
AuthorJill Lepore
ISBN1101947586
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”

Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
Creepy Archives, Vol. 2
AuthorShawna Gore
ISBN1595821686
This veinchilling second volume showcases work by some of the best artists to ever work in the comics medium, including Alex Toth, Gray Morrow, Reed Crandall, John Severin, and others. Each archive volume of Creepy is packed with stories (usually up to eight short stories were featured in every issue!)...
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