Pinocchio

10 best books like Pinocchio (Winshluss): Beautiful Darkness, Safari Honeymoon, By This Shall You Know Him, Cinema Panopticum, Crawl Space, Betty Boob, The Frank Book, I Killed Adolf Hitler, Hey, Wait..., Fran

Beautiful Darkness
AuthorFabien Vehlmann
ISBN1770461299
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. ...
Safari Honeymoon
AuthorJesse Jacobs
ISBN1927668042
Looking for the ultimate honeymoon experience, a newly married couple hire a guide to take them to a truly exotic location, one teeming with strange life forms and best described as an unimaginably alien version of a jungle. While the reader immediately realizes that the unfathomable flora and fauna...
By This Shall You Know Him
AuthorJesse Jacobs
ISBN0986873985
Artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs—whose book Even the Giants (AdHouse, 2011) marked his major publishing debut after several award-winning, self-published titles—describes his new comic work, By This Shall You Know Him, as coming “out of the darkness of oblivion.” Within the book’s...
Cinema Panopticum
AuthorThomas Ott
ISBN1560976497
T. Ott plunges into the darkness with five new graphic horror novelettes: "The Prophet," "The Wonder Pill," "La Lucha," "The Hotel," and the title story, each executed in his hallucinatory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style and running between 16 to 20 pages. The first story in the book introduces...
Crawl Space
AuthorJesse Jacobs
ISBN1927668417
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
Betty Boob
AuthorVéronique Cazot
ISBN2203112409
"What are you going to do now?
Anything I want."

This is a highly energetic, even at times effervescent graphic novel, almost completely wordless, with script by Vera Cazot and wild, colorful illustrations by Julie Rocheleau. And the back cover describes the basics:

"She lost...
The Frank Book
AuthorJim Woodring
ISBN1560975342
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
I Killed Adolf Hitler
AuthorJason
ISBN1560978287
What if we lived in a world where ‘murderer for hire’ was as legal and commonplace a profession as doctor or engineer?

What if a scientist hired one of these assassins for the most amazing hit of his career…to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before his evil rise to power?

And...
AuthorJason
One of Europe's most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut. This superbly evocative graphic novella by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (his first appearance in the English language) starts off as a melancholy childhood memoir and then, with a shocking twist midway through,...
Fran
AuthorJim Woodring
ISBN1606996614
For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring's beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011's...
AuthorThomas Ott
ISBN1560978759
Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...
David Boring
AuthorDaniel Clowes
ISBN0375714529
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in...
Three Shadows
AuthorCyril Pedrosa
Back then, life was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the smell of the river... That was how we lived, in a vale among the hills—sheltered from storms, ignorant of the world, as though on an island, peaceful and untroubled.

And then...
And then everything changed.

Can...
Satanie
AuthorFabien Vehlmann
ISBN2302053869
Aventure, étrangeté fantastique, sensualité, Satanie propose un récit haut en couleur, palpitant et émouvant.

Charlotte – alias Charlie – une jolie rousse, organise une expédition afin de retrouver son frère.

Ce jeune scientifique, qui a disparu sous terre depuis...
The Quantum Age, Vol. 1
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1506708412
Black Hammer creators Jeff Lemire (Essex County) and Wilfredo Torres (Legion) in illustrating and Dave Stewart (Hellboy) providing his colorist skills to the mix. Collects The Quantum Age #1-6.

In the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series--but a thousand years in the future--a...
Rules of Summer
AuthorShaun Tan
ISBN1444908898
I believe it is more difficult to describe a Shaun Tan book than it is to feel a Shaun Tan book. They are a mood conveyed through otherworldly pictures and contrasting ideas. This Shaun Tan book is a book for children.

I boy describes the rules he learns over a summer with his brother. The artwork...
Zaï zaï zaï zaï
AuthorFabcaro
ISBN2352121167
Un auteur de bande dessinée, alors qu'il fait ses courses, réalise qu'il n'a pas sa carte de fidélité sur lui. La caissière appelle le vigile, mais quand celui-ci arrive, l'auteur le menace et parvient à s'enfuir. La police est alertée, s'engage alors une traque sans merci, le fugitif traversant...
Et si l'amour c'était aimer
AuthorFabcaro
ISBN2352121350
Sandrine et Henri coulent des jours paisibles dans leur villa luxueuse. Henri est un patron de startup épanoui et dynamique et Sandrine l'admire. Mais hélas la vie n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille... Un beau jour, Sandrine tombe sous le charme de Michel, un brun ténébreux livreur à domicile...
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