Hubert

10 best books like Hubert (Ben Gijsemans): Here, Rusty Brown, How To Be Happy, Unterzakhn, Shortcomings, Panter, The Customer is Always Wrong, The Making Of, The Acme Novelty Library #20, Sleepwalk and Other Stories

AuthorRichard McGuire
ISBN0241145961
Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name.

Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989.

Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it...
Rusty Brown
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0224078135
Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!

‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...
How To Be Happy
AuthorEleanor Davis
ISBN1606997408
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
AuthorLeela Corman
ISBN0805242597
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...
Shortcomings
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1897299168
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and...
Panter
AuthorBrecht Evens
ISBN9077549889
Panter, de kroonprins van het koninkrijk Panteria, kruipt uit de ladenkast van kleine Christine na de dood van haar kat. Er ontspint zich een spel van verleiding tussen de charmeur en zijn prooi. In de langverwachte opvolger van De liefhebbers dompelt Brecht Evens ons onder in een verwarrende kinderlijke...
The Customer is Always Wrong
AuthorMimi Pond
ISBN1770462821
A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism

The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
AuthorBrecht Evens
AN ANGOULÊME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD

The Making Of is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens’s Eisner-nominated debut, The Wrong Place. With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish...
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN1770460209
Jordan Wellington Lint, fifty-one, is chief executive officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and adviser before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years...
Sleepwalk and Other Stories
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1896597122
I closed Adrian Tomine's Sleepwalk and Other Stories feeling depressed, something in Tomine's negativity, his view of the disconnect inherent in the relationships between his characters and contemporary life filled me with a (temporary, I hope) despair. These short graphic stories are deeply...
Woman World
AuthorAminder Dhaliwal
ISBN1770463356
The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men

With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...
AuthorMark Siegel
ISBN1596436360
One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular—and notoriously reclusive—author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together...
AuthorEric Drooker
ISBN0941423794
An American Book Award winner and an Editor's Choice of the New York Times, Flood! is the powerful first graphic novel by Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for the New Yorker. Flood! is a modern novel written in the ancient language of pictures, with an expressionist, film noir edge. This "definitive...
AuthorManuele Fior
ISBN8876181717
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book. 

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Killing and Dying: Stories
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1770462090
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." —Wired

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes...
Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
AuthorDominique Goblet
ISBN2844142338
Maintes fois annoncé, Faire semblant c'est mentir est le résultat d'un travail autobiographique réalisé par Dominique Goblet sur douze ans. Le temps joue un rôle complet dans ce livre où recherches stylistiques et narratives se mêlent au déroulement du récit. Faire semblant c’est mentir...
The Park Bench
AuthorChristophe Chabouté
ISBN0571332307
Chabouté's enchanting story of a park bench was first published to critical acclaim in France in 2012. Faber now brings his work to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Through Chabouté's elegant graphic style, we watch people pass, stop, meet, return, wait and play out the strange...
Irmina
AuthorBarbara Yelin
Die ehrgeizige Irmina reist Mitte der 1930er Jahre nach London, um eine Ausbildung zur Fremdsprachensekretärin zu beginnen. Dort lernt sie Howard aus der Karibik kennen, dem sie sich im Streben nach einem selbstbestimmten Leben verbunden fühlt. Durch den klugen und zielstrebigen Oxfordstudenten...
Cumbe
AuthorMarcelo d'Salete
ISBN9788563137
Cumbe é uma obra para ampliar possibilidades de leitura e visões sobre o passado. Suas histórias sobre resistência negra e africana contra a escravidão lançam uma outra perspectiva a respeito deste grupo. A resistência de muitos africanos escravizados contra o sistema de trabalho forçado...
Chlorine Gardens
AuthorKeiler Roberts
Keiler Roberts doesn’t do slice of life; she gives you the whole pie.

Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens’ sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts’ gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life’s...
Fashion Beast
AuthorAlan Moore
ISBN1592912117
A LOST MASTERPIECE FROM THE CREATOR OF WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, AND FROM HELL

Alan Moore's lost masterpiece comes to life as an incredible comic book series almost three decades later! The mid-80's were a stunning period of brilliance for Alan Moore, seeing him create true masterpieces including...
Magritte : Ceci n'est pas une biographie
AuthorThomas Campi
Charles Singullier est un employé ordinaire qui, pour une fois, se permet une petite originalité : il s'achète un chapeau melon au marché aux puces des Marolles à Bruxelles. Une fois le chapeau posé sur la tête, rien ne sera plus pareil pour Charles : il est victime d'hallucinations issues de...
Mauvaises filles
AuthorAncco
ISBN2360811126
Jin-joo est une mauvaise fille. Elle fume, découche, nargue ses professeurs et cause du souci à ses parents. Son père, un petit patron, n'a que ses poings pour exprimer sa peur de la voir mal tourner. Alors il la passe à tabac, régulièrement. La Corée subit la crise économique de la fin des années...
Het dwaallicht
AuthorDick Matena
ISBN9025364004
The short story by Elsschot is sublime in describing the small-town mentality at that time, while having the main character attempt to fight his own prejudices every step he takes, and fails miserably, time and time again, while at the same time believing he isn't.
Matena, although clearly a gifted...
Baking With Kafka
AuthorTom Gauld
ISBN1770462961
A best-of collection of literary humour cartoons from the critically-acclaimed Guardian cartoonist

In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a "book-lover's cartoonist,"...
Zeep 1
AuthorMaarten Vande Wiele
Het is 1986 en in New York City is de jacht naar geld, succes en geluk geopend. Maar dat kan de jonge secretaresse Barbra Roberts gestolen worden. Barbra droomt van een prins, net zoals in haar geliefde soapopera's. Ze valt als een blok voor de rijke Kenneth Castelson, en als Kenneth haar ten huwelijk vraagt...
Doom Rolled in Glitter
AuthorLeena Norms
I haven’t been following Leena’s channel for very long, but I am so happy that I do! When I heard she was self publishing a poetry collection I literally squealed with excitement, and she did an amazing job! I especially loved ‘how to find yourself’, ‘small talk’ and ‘the cliff’. This...
ABBA zoekt Frida
AuthorMaarten Vande Wiele
‘ABBA zoekt Frida’ gaat over vier jonge muzikanten (Astrid, Bert, Bavo en Anneleen) die besluiten om een ABBA tribute band op te richten: ‘de Honey Honeys’. In het begin zijn hun optredens nogal slecht en amateuristisch, maar langzaamaan krijgt de groep meer succes. Hun shows worden professioneler...
Who I Am and What I Want
AuthorDavid Shrigley
ISBN0811855309
Funny, urgent, bizarre, and honestpop artist David Shrigley's darkly hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have earned him a growing legion of fans around the world. In this mock autobiographical collection his mischievous drawings capture life's anxieties and ambitions from the mundane to...
Zij zei
AuthorJodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
‘Zij zei’ van Jodi Kantor en Megan Twohey vertelt een noodzakelijk en universeel verhaal over de verhouding tussen macht en gender. Op 5 oktober 2017 publiceerden Jodi Kantor en Megan Twohey een artikel in The New York Times dat de wereld zou veranderen. Maandenlang hadden ze geruchten over seksueel...
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