Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days
10 best books like Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Al Columbia): Pinocchio, Billy Hazelnuts, The Cage, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, Incidents in the Night, Book One, The Man Who Grew His Beard, Congress of the Animals, Powr Mastrs 1, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Kitaro
| Author | Winshluss |
| ISBN | 2849610674 |
This award-winning graphic novel re-imagines the story Pinocchio as a noir fairy tale both comic and tragic. In this dark rendition, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull. Critically...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560977019 |
Tony Millionaire, creator of Sock Monkey and one of America's most popular weekly comic strips, Maakies, delivers his first original graphic novel for Fantagraphics, Billy Hazelnuts. Billy Hazelnuts transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her...
| Author | Martin Vaughn-James |
First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian comics master and Lemony Snicket collaborator Seth...
| Author | Fletcher Hanks |
| ISBN | 1606991604 |
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique andunified artistic vision. He was...
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 0984681442 |
In Incidents in the Night David B. sets out to explore the uncharted territories of overflowing and dusty shelves of Paris' legendary book shops. His journey quickly turns into an obsessive vision quest in pursuit of a mysterious nineteenth-century journal: Incidents In the Night. Mountains of books...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606994468 |
The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s first American book, having staked a reputation over the last decade as one of Europe’s most talented storytellers. It collects seven short stories, each a headspinning display of craft and storytelling that mixes early twentieth-century...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606994379 |
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
According to "The Comics Reporter," "If a reader were to pick up on any one cartoonist working at a furious and considered and accomplished pace right below the radar of most comics fans, C.F. might be the best choice." This first book by C.F. (also known in the East Coast underground music scene as Kites)...
| 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 | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770461108 |
Meet one of Japan's most popular characters of all time-Kitaro, the One-Eyed Monster Boy
Meet Kitaro. He's just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is an antenna that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-powered, and he can blend...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0982632711 |
A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest (at...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1606994425 |
Five years ago, little Gwenny’s father found, inside a bottle, a map with instructions on how to reach the mysterious Isle of 100,000 Graves and its legendary treasures — and then he vanished. Now Gwenny, having stumbled across another bottle-shipped map, enlists the dubious help of a shipful...
| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606993429 |
Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive Maggie series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets(Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved Locas. But first... wrestling...
| Author | Josh Simmons |
| ISBN | 1606995367 |
Graphic novelist Josh Simmons (House) returns with a harrowing and genre-bending collection of modern horror short stories that could curl the toes of a corpse in a state of rigor mortis. Simmons disturbing, uncomfortable and even confrontational stories often work on multiple levels: straight,...
| Author | Michael DeForge |
| ISBN | 1770461736 |
A mysterious, unsettling parable from one of North America's most popular cartoonists
First Year Healthy purports to be the story of a young woman, recently released from the hospital after an outburst, and her burgeoning relationship with an odd, perhaps criminal Turkish immigrant. In...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1606993151 |
Almost Silent packages four original Jason graphic novels, three of them out of print since mid-2008 into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. (As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason's pantomime works.) You Can't Get There From Here, the longest story of the book (and the only one...
Love and Rockets: New Stories #5
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606995863 |
How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez 's stunning two-part masterpiece The Love Bunglers from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray 's relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggie 's (and her family s) past? If you re...
