House
10 best books like House (Josh Simmons): Beyond the Door, Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts, Good-Bye, Small World, Ninja, Monologues for the Coming Plague, You'll Never Know, Vol. 1: A Good and Decent Man, Lost City, Sabertooth Mountain, Hatchling
From the wildly imaginative storyteller behind Punktown and other strange worlds, comes the novella BEYOND THE DOOR.
Two strangers meet in a train station, and begin swapping stories—stories that eerily interweave, and grow more and more disturbing and bizarre. The headless undead,...
| Author | Lynd Ward |
| ISBN | 0486435008 |
The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (1905–85), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors the European artists Frans Masereel...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1897299370 |
“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times
Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected...
| Author | Tabitha King |
| ISBN | 0451114086 |
I would give this book 4.5 stars just for sheer originality, overall weirdness and supreme creepiness. The book totally enthralled me at every turn and I love that I didn’t know where it was going to go, or how far. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read anything by Tabitha King and after reading...
| Author | Brian Chippendale |
| ISBN | 1584232471 |
Both an epic 80-page graphic novel and a document of his vibrant drawings, collages and posters, Ninja is the first book by Fort Thunder co-founder and Lighting Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale. The graphic novel, a work 5 years in the making, takes readers through a fantastic landscape delineated in...
| Author | Anders Nilsen |
| ISBN | 1560977183 |
Nilsen's work here is a throw back to the absurd -- to Harold Pinter or Samuel Beckett or Eugène Ionesco. Driven my angst and the fear of nihilism the cartooning washes over you like a philosopher's dream or a chapbook by William Blake rewritten by Franz Kafka.
I found myself going back over pages...
| Author | Carol Tyler |
| ISBN | 1606991442 |
You’ll Never Know is the first graphic novel from C. Tyler (Late Bloomer)
and sure to be one of the most acclaimed books of the year. It tells the story of the 50-something author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected...
| Author | Scott Ciencin |
| ISBN | 0679869832 |
Andrew, the son of a Dinotopian innkeeper, makes a strange discovery one night when a hooded dinosaur leads him and two friends to a remote, sealed-off city. When they begin to explore the forbidden area, the trio are thrust into a dangerous adventure--one they can survive only if they can put aside their...
Dinotopia: Sabertooth Mountain is the 5th book in a series of books based off the original picture book, Dinotopia. It is about a boy who ,after deciding to drop out of school, must go on a journey to see his parents. When he finally boards the Sky Galley to see his parents, he is thrown off the ship during...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679869840 |
Midori Snyder is the author of eight books for children and adults, published in English, French, and Dutch. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition. Other novels include The Flight of Michael McBride (a mythic...
| Author | JUDAL |
| ISBN | 1598162128 |
When Yujinn is slain by the King of Razenia, Vord violently seeks out the murderer. But how can he avenge his friend when the killer is his own flesh and blood? Meanwhile, the villainous Lassen unveils his master plan to usurp the Pheliostan throne. With an army vastly superior to Ishtar's readying its...
| Author | Greg Sadowski |
| ISBN | 1606993437 |
Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, horror books were flying off the...
| Author | Megan Kelso |
| ISBN | 1606993445 |
Megan Kelso has proved herself a master of the cartoon short story with Queen of the Black Black (1998, to be republished by Fantagraphics in 2010) and Squirrel Mother (2006, currently in its second printing). With Artichoke Tales, six years in the making, Kelso expands her range (and her page count)...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1897299575 |
Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New York
Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short...
| Author | Rick Spears |
| ISBN | 0976303809 |
Max is a grave-robbing 13-year-old who gathers relics to pawn for comic book money. Macon works at the local Mallmart by day and publishes his comic book manifestos by night. Madison is a punk beauty who just might be able to fly. When Macon gets badly beaten in a fight with his boss over comic books, Macon...
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the first in a series of books from La Mano collecting the work of John Porcellino. Over the course of 15 years and 64 issues of his much-loved, self published 'zine KING-CAT Comics and Stories, John has chronicled his life and the world around him with honesty, grace,...
Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring’s hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience...
| Author | Mark Kalesniko |
| ISBN | 1560974109 |
The creator of Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself? returns with an even more powerful graphic novel. Monty, a Canadian comic-and-toy-shop owner and a pathetic 39-year-old virgin, expects his Asian mail-order bride Kyung Soo to fulfil his female Asian fantasy stereotypes: obedient, hardworking and...
Daddy's Girl is a powerful book that uses a childlike graphic style to explore the adolescence of a young girl, Lily, whose life is being destroyed by sexual abuse. Drechsler pulls no punches in her depiction of incest, and many scenes are hard to read, but this book shows that comics can be a vehicle for...
When Giuliano's father loans him the family garage, he and three of his friends form a band. Playing their battered secondhand instruments, the four teenagers find something they love to do, and they find in their friendship and music a refuge from difficult and turbulent home lives. But when their...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 1897299567 |
The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative “Rusty Brown,” which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of its central real-life protagonists, W. K. Brown. A previously marginal...
| 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...
I have the feeling that from time to time I will need to look at all of the Dash Shaw books I have read and not appreciated and rethink my evaluations of them. This one I think might be my favorite so far, though it may just be that I am starting to gain a greater appreciation for what he is doing. I never know exactly...
| Author | Serena Valentino |
| ISBN | 1593620659 |
This tale belongs to the dead and the house they dwell in. Madame Lalaurie inflicted unspeakable acts upon her slaves at 1140 Rue Royale, and now their tortured souls are seeking revenge on the house's new occupants: an elderly woman named Victoria and her young niece Rebecca. Rebecca must fight for...
