Hopeless Savages: Greatest Hits 2000-2010
10 best books like Hopeless Savages: Greatest Hits 2000-2010 (Jen Van Meter): Unterzakhn, The Color of Earth, Leave It to Chance Volume 1: Shaman's Rain, Marzi, The Tale of One Bad Rat, You Have Killed Me, Escape from "Special", Empire State: A Love Story (or Not), RASL, Vol. 1: The Drift, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon
| Author | Leela Corman |
| ISBN | 0805242597 |
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of...
| Author | Kim Dong Hwa |
| ISBN | 1596434589 |
First love is never easy.
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers - both neighbors and strangers - look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country...
| Author | James Robinson |
| ISBN | 1582402531 |
Fourteen-year-old Chance Falconer has the occult in her blood. Her father, Lucas Falconer, is the supernatural defender of the Devil's Echo, an amazing city where the supernatural is an everyday occurrence. This is a family tradition handed down from one generation to the next and so Chance feels...
“I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our daily bread.I’m scared of spiders and the world of adults doesn’t seem like a walk in the park.”Told from a young...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1569710775 |
Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey that takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is...
| Author | Jamie S. Rich |
| ISBN | 1932664882 |
If you're a noir buff, this is great fun. It's a classic period mystery, starting with a "locked room" disappearance before barreling off into the seedier side of humanity, as every character hides secrets and motives. Jamie Rich's dialogue sings like 40's flick -- sly and sharp-writted iwth a sting...
Fantagraphics Books is proud to follow up our launch of rising star R. Kikuo Johnson (author of the acclaimed Night Fisher) by showcasing Miss Lasko-Gross in her graphic- novel debut. Escape from "Special" is the coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small child and depart from at the...
Empire State: A Love Story (or Not)
| Author | Jason Shiga |
| ISBN | 0810997479 |
Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely....
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 1888963204 |
RASL -- a stark, sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief -- a man unplugged from the world who races through space and time searching for his next big score -- trying to escape his past. In part one of three, Rasl faces an assassin's bullet and stumbles across a mystery that not only threatens...
| 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 | Mike Allred |
| ISBN | 1613770340 |
Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer was an instant hit the moment it hit the spinner rack in the earl 1980s. Stevens' lush and distinctive artwork and fun, action-driven story was inspired by the adventure pulp novels of the era The Rocketeer was set in. Stevens produced only two Rocketeer graphic novels - collected...
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
| ISBN | 1935234056 |
In Chicks Dig Comics, editors Lynne M. Thomas (Hugo-Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords) and Sigrid Ellis bring together essays by award-winning writers and artists who celebrate the comics medium and its creators, and who examine the characters and series that they love. Gail Simone (Birds of Prey)...
| Author | Bonnie Burton |
| ISBN | 1613771479 |
Womanthology is a large scale anthology comic showcasing the works of women in comics. It is created entirely by over 150 women of all experience levels. The purpose of the book is to show support for female creators in comics and media. There are multiple short stories, "how to"s & interviews with...
| Author | Carla Speed McNeil |
| ISBN | 1595826513 |
Designed as a jumping-on point for new readers, Voice follows Rachel Grosvenor as she navigates the high-pressure social gauntlet that is her clan's "conformation" process, competing for knighthood in an attempt to win security for her mother and sister. (Lynne, however, can take care of himself.)...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606993798 |
After Jaime's two-part super-hero epic from Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 and #2, we return to the enthralling minutiae of the Locas cast's lives for the first time in three years. In the main story Ray finally gets his date with Maggie: The couple goes to an art opening and to dinner, they discuss the...
| Author | Kou Fumizuki |
| ISBN | 1591826462 |
Not bad. While I generally like this series, I'm not sure if I will continue with it or not. On the one hand, the characters are fun, the artwork and storytelling are fairly well-handled -- Fumizuki has a knack for drawing lovely young women. On the other hand, the story is clichéd. This series fits squarely...
| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606993429 |
Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive Maggie series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets(Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved Locas. But first... wrestling...
Blue Monday Vol. 2: Absolute Beginners
| Author | Chynna Clugston Flores |
| ISBN | 1929998171 |
Things start off bad as a costume party goes all wrong, and the brain-damaged, hormonally-challenged boys videotape Bleu in the bath. From there, Bleu and Clover will stop at nothing to get the tape back, while Erin makes it her personal mission to make sure everything stays screwed up! You see, this...
Following the death of his grandfather, young Alex Mackay discovers a mysterious photograph in the old man's belongings that sets him on an adventure like no other—where dreams and reality merge, family secrets are laid bare, and lives are irrevocably altered.
CAMERON STEWART’S EISNER...
Love and Capes Vol. 1: Do You Want To Know A Secret?
| Author | Thomas F. Zahler |
| ISBN | 1600102751 |
Abby and Mark are a typical couple. At least, that's what Abby thinks. Unknown to her, her boyfriend is not just an accountant, but also the super-powered crime-fighter, the Crusader! See Mark tell Abby he's The Crusader. Find out how Abby deals with some of his super-ex-girlfriends. And learn the difference...
| Author | Philip Gelatt |
| ISBN | 1934964441 |
Introducing the untold tale of the international conspiracy behind the murder of Gregorii Rasputin Set during the height of the first World War, the tale follows a reluctant British spy stationed in the heart of the Russian empire as he is handed the most difficult assignment of his career: orchestrate...
