Lucille
10 best books like Lucille (Ludovic Debeurme): Becoming Unbecoming, Beautiful Darkness, Shortcomings, The Story of My Tits, Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics, Elmer, Bottled, Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam, The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year One, Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais
A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt
It’s 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it’s a really...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
| Author | Adrian Tomine |
| ISBN | 1897299168 |
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...
| Author | Jennifer Hayden |
| ISBN | 1603090541 |
A landmark work of graphic memoir and a cancer narrative that pulls no punches.
When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they’d held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and...
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0807010375 |
My edition is the old blue one with the white letters and it was part of opening the interior and exterior world for me back in the day. Starhawk's insistence on the integration of sexuality, politics and the personal power some refer to as magic has aged well, as has her vision of what we risk by not understanding...
Elmer is a window into a world where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans, where they can now consider themselves a race no different than browns, black, or whites. Recognizing themselves to be sentient, the inexplicably evolved chickens push to attain rights...
| Author | Chris Gooch |
| ISBN | 1603094202 |
A haunting portrait of millennial alienation, tinged with body horror and Greek tragedy, glamour and terror.
Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs, and desperate for a change. Her old friend Natalie made it out, living in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business,...
Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It’s a laff riot! Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple...
The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year One
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1632157284 |
Full review now posted!
Original review can be found at Booknest.
Rating: 3/5 stars (for the art, mainly)
The art is absolutely lovely. The premise, intriguing. The execution, however, leaves much to be desired.
Every 90 years or so, there is a Recurrence. Twelve gods...
Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais
| Author | Fabien Toulmé |
| ISBN | 2756035505 |
Intorno alla disabilità c'è spesso uno scontro tra due posizioni. Le bestie, come le chiamo io, tutti quelli che non hanno sensibilità o empatia, che non vorrebbero voler neanche vedere i disabili, e i compassionevoli, schiavi del politically correct (riuscendo poi a risultare a volte più offensivi...
Gipi racconta e disegna la visione di un imprecisato futuro post catastrofe che è lo specchio esasperato del nostro presente. La fine della civiltà è arrivata, non sappiamo come. L’aria è piena di mosche, l’acqua di cadaveri e di veleni. Un padre e due figli ragazzini sono tra i pochi superstiti:...
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1683962079 |
So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....
An original hardcover graphic novel from two of comics most acclaimed creators, Scott Snyder (Wytches, Batman, American Vampire) and Jeff Lemire (Descender, Extraordinary X-Men, Sweet Tooth).
A.D.: After Death is set in a future where a genetic cure for death has been found and now, years later,...
| 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...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
