Prison Pit, Vol. 2
10 best books like Prison Pit, Vol. 2 (Johnny Ryan): Forming, Skin Deep, Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days, The Man Who Grew His Beard, Powr Mastrs 1, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945, The Hidden, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2, The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 10
| Author | Jesse Moynihan |
| ISBN | 1907704132 |
Since the dawn of history, we have sought to understand our existence through creationist fables of omnipotent deities and mythical creatures. Jesse Moynihan takes these fifty thousand years of socio-religious postulation and throws them in the blender to create one epic—and irreverent—battle...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 1560973900 |
Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series.
Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with...
| Author | Al Columbia |
| ISBN | 1606993046 |
This gorgeous grimoire is part alchemy, part art book, part storybook, part comic book, and part conceptual art from the pen of Al Columbia, a longtime fan favorite contributor to comics anthologies like Zero Zero, Blab , and more recently, MOME. Collecting over a decade s worth of artifacts, excavations,...
| 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...
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 | Ernie Bushmiller |
| ISBN | 1606993607 |
A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller 's Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true...
| Author | Richard Sala |
| ISBN | 1606993860 |
This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300126719 |
Ivan Brunetti returns with a new selection of 20th and 21st-century comic creations by some of the most original artists in the medium
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan...
| Author | Kazuo Umezu |
| ISBN | 1421515296 |
In this volume, Sho and the other students must get past the mutant creatures in order to get out of the path of poisonous toxic clouds headed their way. Otomo and his group follow Sho, even though they have been enemies for some time now. A dying student told them to head toward Mt. Fuji where they would find...
Everybody is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations
| Author | Peter Bagge |
| ISBN | 1606991582 |
Fans of Peter Bagge's generation-defining, satirical fiction may not realize this, but the cartoonist doubles as an opinionated cuss, and has been contributing provocative (but still hilarious) comic-strip opinion pieces to Reason magazine for the last several years...finally collected in...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1560978821 |
For the first half decade of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez focused on fleshing out his small Central American hamlet of Palomar. But eventually this became too restrictive for the kinds of stories he wanted to tell, and he created, in quick succession, two major standalone graphic novels. Beyond...
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1934287180 |
Dororo is Tezuka's classic thriller manga featuring a youth who has been robbed of 48 body parts by devils, and his epic struggle against a host of demons to get them back.
Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a samurai general in Japan's Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn...
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 Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
| Author | David Kendall |
| ISBN | 0762433981 |
These zombies just won’t die. Here is the first ever popular collection of zombie comics and short graphic stories. Full of spooky and well-crafted tales from beyond the grave, this collection will appeal to readers of graphic novels, comic books, and followers of the undead. With stories from Vincent...
| Author | Kim Deitch |
| ISBN | 0375424318 |
At the center of the novel Kim Deitch deftly places himself and his wife Pam–a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s, whose collection is impressive to say the least. But when she buys a mysterious old cat costume, she and Kim find themselves in wholly new territory: the lost...
