It Was the War of the Trenches
10 best books like It Was the War of the Trenches (Jacques Tardi): Chicken with Plums, The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke, The Photographer, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, Berlin, Vol. 3: City of Light
| Author | Marjane Satrapi |
| ISBN | 0375424156 |
In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is no longer worth living. He takes to his bed, renouncing...
| Author | Joe Sacco |
| ISBN | 0393088804 |
From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.
Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed...
Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1896597297 |
Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events...
| 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 | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770460411 |
A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists
Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1897299532 |
The second installment of the epic historical trilogy
The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists,...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596433752 |
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevres photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert,...
| Author | Joe Sacco |
| ISBN | 1896597602 |
When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy.
It's dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate.
Award-winning comix-journalist...
| Author | Paul Karasik |
| ISBN | 0571226337 |
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
Credo che fosse il 1991, l’anno in cui ho incontrato Paul Auster per la prima volta: La musica del caso.
E fu subito amore.
Amore grande: c’erano in Auster umori che in letteratura mi sembravano insoliti, fuori, e oltre, che all’epoca...
Berlin, Vol. 3: City of Light
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463275 |
The conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin citizens as Nazism rises
The third and final act of Jason Lutes’s historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament,...
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 8467465549 |
Al morir su padre, al que hacía años que no veía, Youichi asiste a su funeral con cierta sensación de alejamiento emocional. Su padre es para él un virtual desconocido, por el que nunca ha sentido demasiado afecto y al que ha llegado a considerar como un ser mediocre y oscuro. A través de recuerdos...
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781560974703
Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life...
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 2754810153 |
Au terme d'un voyage collectif en Europe, un dessinateur japonais fait étape en solitaire à Paris, dans l'idée de visiter les musées de la capitale. Mais, cloué au lit de sa chambre d'hôtel par une fièvre insidieuse, il se trouve confronté avant tout à une forme de solitude absolue, celle des...
