Kings in Disguise
10 best books like Kings in Disguise (James Vance): Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones, The Tale of One Bad Rat, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir, Paul Has a Summer Job, Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story, Need More Love, Why I Hate Saturn, The Golem's Mighty Swing, Our Cancer Year
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 | Ann Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 1594482640 |
A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.
Who was Long Tack Sam?
He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A...
| Author | Michel Rabagliati |
| ISBN | 1896597548 |
Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is eagerly anticipated by comix connoisseurs who enjoy...
| Author | Paul M. Buhle |
| ISBN | 1844675254 |
A vibrant history in graphic art of the "Wobblies," published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first -sit-down strikes...
| Author | Tracy White |
| ISBN | 1596434546 |
How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons...
| Author | Aline Kominsky-Crumb |
| ISBN | 1846011337 |
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the earliest female cartoonists, presents a collection of her own highly inventive and daring artwork from over four decades, along with unusual photographs and memorabilia. The road to becoming an underground- comics legend begins with Komisky-Crumb as a nice jewish...
| Author | Kyle Baker |
| ISBN | 0930289722 |
fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #8: a comic written or illustrated by a person of color
and that color is tie dye.
extra points given to me, by me, for choosing a book that i have owned for more than a year. *
review to come.
* which is a teensy...
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 1896597718 |
James Sturm pens this richly evocative graphic novel set in the 1920s. The Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. They all sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons but when financial difficulties threaten to end their...
| Author | Harvey Pekar |
| ISBN | 1568580118 |
It was they year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. Pekar, a man who has made a profession of chronicling the Kafkaesque absurdities of an ordinary life - if any life is ordinary - suddenly found himself incapacitated. But he had a better-than-average...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596430966 |
"When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he'd like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did."
When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was getting into. This graphic memoir is the story of his life during wartime, a story...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | George A. Walker |
| ISBN | 1554072700 |
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book."
- New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman
Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues...
| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606995391 |
Originally serialized in Love and Rockets New Stories, Ti-Girls Adventures managed to be both a rollickingly creative super-hero joyride (featuring three separate super-teams and over two dozen characters) that ranged from the other side of the universe to Maggie 's shabby apartment, and a genuinely...
| 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...
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0393061078 |
In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphic arts presents the most intimate and personal perspective yet on his life as a writer, a professional, and an artist. “The Dreamer” and “To the Heart of the Storm” describe...
| 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...
| Author | Hugo Pratt |
| ISBN | 1561631078 |
Siamo nel XVII secolo, ai tempi e nei pressi delle prime colonie americane, e i giorni sono quelli dell'estate 'indiana', quando l'autunno finisce e l'inverno deve ancora arrivare. L'apparente serenità del piccolo villaggio in cui la storia è ambientata è a un tratto interrotta da un tragico evento,...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606992945 |
One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, Ici Meme was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (A suivre) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny,...
| Author | Derek McCulloch |
| ISBN | 1401223516 |
Ciara O'Dwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman who's come to present-day Manhattan on his wife's anniversary-present...
| Author | Loïc Dauvillier |
| ISBN | 2723482545 |
Le docteur Amine Jaafari est un chirurgien reconnu à Tel Aviv, où il vit avec son épouse SIhem, palestienne, comme lui. Un jour, après un attentat particulièrement meurtrier, la police israélienne l'informe que le kamikaze est… sa propre femme ! Brisé par cette révélation, Amine décide...
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1
| Author | Fred Van Lente |
| ISBN | 0977832902 |
Action Philosophers! details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in a hip and humorous fashion that proves that philosophy is not just the province of boring, tweed-enveloped professors.
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Volume 1 collects the first three sold-out...
“Peter was a populist priest. He was cool. He was funny. He was no priest, just a regular guy. It’s like I had another uncle. A great one, who laughed, who sang, who tickled. Until he took us for summer camp. Until we were so close, temptation came in the picture.” Based on a true story that the writer...
