Incidents in the Night, Book One
10 best books like Incidents in the Night, Book One (David B.): Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, The Property, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars, Sugar Skull, Chroniques de Jérusalem, Carnet de Voyage, Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, X'ed Out, The Hive, Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
| Author | Jeff Jensen |
| ISBN | 1595825606 |
Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women, but in 1990, with the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. After...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1770461159 |
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming...
Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars
| Author | Ethan Hawke |
| ISBN | 1401310990 |
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. Goyahkla, a young brave, has lost his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, he approaches the Apache leader Cochise to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907902 |
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish
Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 2756025690 |
Guy Delisle et sa famille s’installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4000 ans. Au
détour d’une ruelle, à la sortie d’un lieu saint, à la terrasse d’un café,...
| Author | Craig Thompson |
| ISBN | 1891830600 |
This is one of those ratings that I fully admit may not be equally applicable to everyone picking up this book. Yes, it's very, very good, but what makes it a five star for me may not hold true for everyone else. But oh. For me? For me, this is the book I never knew I wanted to read until I held it in my hands, and...
Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421598469 |
Thirteen Chilling Nightmares Presented by the Master of Horror.
Try not to be noticed when you eat the secret nectar, otherwise you'll get smashed... What horrific events happened to create the earthbound-people tied to a certain place for the rest of their short lives? A strange haunted...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307379132 |
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow.
What’s...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907880 |
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing...
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
| Author | Matt Dembicki |
| ISBN | 1555917240 |
Meet the Trickster, a crafty creature or being who disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself in the process. Whether a coyote or rabbit, raccoon or raven, Tricksters use cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief.
In Trickster,...
| Author | François Schuiten |
| ISBN | 1628472278 |
After a freak accident on the Star Express roller coaster, 13 year-old Mary Von Rathen begins to lean. Doctors can not help her, so she is sent by her selfish mother and hen-pecked father to a private school in Sodrovni. Mary escapes and joins the Robertson Circus where she remains for several years, until...
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 8876182691 |
Il Giappone era diventato per me lo scrigno dei desideri e soprattutto il paradiso dei disegnatori. Inebriato dalle vecchie stampe giapponesi, mi ero addentrato in quel mondo di segni apparentemente semplici che celavano una sapienza misteriosa. Avevo convinto me stesso e i miei editor della Kodansha...
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts
is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (
Kitchen Confidential
, Emmy-Award winning TV star of
Parts Unknown
) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (
Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster
) back again from their
New York Times
#1 best seller,
...
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 0701184310 |
Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken necks...(those who have over-dosed are known...
| Author | Christophe Chabouté |
| ISBN | 2749304296 |
An entire life spent alone on a rock. What's he do all day?
This graphic novel is stunning.
First published in France in 2008, Alone was just translated into English this year, and I'm grateful I had the chance to read this beautiful book. It's about a disfigured man who lives alone in...
Trabajo, futuro, estudios, juventud, fracaso... Todo esto es lo que Lola tiene en la cabeza durante un verano en que se juega mucho.
A su alrededor: unos padres que lo esperan todo de ella, una realidad precaria y un hermano, Jorge, que ha tirado la toalla como tantos jóvenes, los mal llamados...
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations, Part One: 1783-1953
| Author | Jean-Pierre Filiu |
| ISBN | 1906838453 |
“Best of Enemies is surely destined to stand alongside Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis as a graphic history of the Middle East. A must read for anyone interested in learning, or teaching, about the region.”—Mark Levine, professor of history at UC-Irvine and author of Heavy Metal Islam
...
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations, Part Two: 1953-1984
The second volume of Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B.’s graphic novel history of US–Middle East relations begins in the 1950s with the Eisenhower Doctrine and ends with the Lebanese War of 1982. A perceptive and authoritative account of this turbulent historical period, Best of Enemies provides...
