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10 best books like How Loathsome (Ted Naifeh): Flora's Fury, NonNonBa, Special Exits, Feeble Wanderings, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Grandville Bête Noire, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Fairy Tales

Flora's Fury
AuthorYsabeau S. Wilce
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her...
NonNonBa
AuthorShigeru Mizuki
ISBN1770460721
The first English translation of Mizuki's best-loved work

NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre;...
Special Exits
AuthorJoyce Farmer
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.

Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
Feeble Wanderings
AuthorRoss Campbell
ISBN1620103044
It felt like I was reading about middle school kids in college student bodies putting their dysfunctional notions about how things work on full display. The art is gorgeous. The characters are whiney, unlikable, and over-dramatic. I was a goth. This was not my world.

Campbell does have an interesting...
My Dirty Dumb Eyes
AuthorLisa Hanawalt
ISBN1770461167
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon
AuthorJacques Tardi
ISBN1606993828
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...
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
AuthorThomas Ott
ISBN1560978759
Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...
Grandville Bête Noire
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1595828907
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0547223242
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?

Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving...
Fairy Tales
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0871406586
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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AuthorAaron Alexovich
ISBN1401203736
Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...
Lola: A Ghost Story
AuthorJ. Torres
ISBN1934964336
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
Post Dykes to Watch Out For
AuthorAlison Bechdel
ISBN1563411229
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No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics
AuthorJustin Hall
ISBN1606995065
Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together...
Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel
AuthorDaphne Gottlieb
Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room...
The Salon
AuthorNick Bertozzi
ISBN0312354851
In 1907 Paris, when someone starts tearing the heads off avant-garde painters, Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo, realize that they might be next on the killer's list. Enlisting the help of their closest friends and colleagues, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Alice B. Toklas, and Guillaume...
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