Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
10 best books like Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography (Andrew Helfer): The Rabbi's Cat, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir, The Silence of Our Friends, Thirst, The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel, Locomotion, The Portable Frank, Les Quantités négligeables, Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
Author | Joann Sfar |
ISBN | 0375422811 |
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat — a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging...
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 | Mark Long |
ISBN | 1596436182 |
In 1960s Texas, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
The...
Author | Mary Oliver |
ISBN | 0807068969 |
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, she strives to experience...
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order...
Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
ISBN | 0142401498 |
When Lonnie Collins Motion "Locomotion" was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he's eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his...
Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring’s hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience...
Author | Manu Larcenet |
ISBN | 2205055895 |
dopo un anno, finalmente è stata pubblicata la seconda parte dello Scontro quotidiano di Manu Larcenet. l'anno scorso ne ero rimasta estasiata e questo secondo volume conferma pienamente le aspettative. sono stupita di aver trovato quello che ritengo un capolavoro tra i fumetti francesi, non per...
Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Author | Gareth Hinds |
ISBN | 0763681121 |
In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.
It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?
In "The Cask of Amontillado," a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend...
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
Author | Ben Passmore |
ISBN | 1945509201 |
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about...
T'Challa seeks to find and stop the person who is psychically influencing the minds of the people.
Meanwhile the Midnight Angel's are rescuing Wakanda subjects whose plights go unnoticed by the King and his inner circle.
I wasn't sure how Black Panther #2 would go because I wasn't...
T'Challa languishes in his doubts while forces are emerging from Wakanda to not only save the people, but to take over.
I want to like the Black Panther, but his comics aren't helping. This issue is demonstrating that T'Challa is quite fallible and many are tired of it. He needs help, but...