Red Snow
10 best books like Red Snow (Susumu Katsumata): The Property, Old Magic, Beautiful Darkness, Boxers, Mister Miracle, Slum Wolf, Saints, Strange Tale of Panorama Island, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, The Push Man and Other Stories
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1770461159 |
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming...
| Author | Marianne Curley |
| ISBN | 0743437691 |
Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn't know why.
The moment the new guy walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and intense about him. Something supernatural. Her instincts are proven correct a few minutes later when, bullied by his classmates, Jarrod unknowingly...
| 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 | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1596433590 |
China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu--who fight to free China from "foreign...
| Author | Tom King |
| ISBN | 1401283543 |
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick–and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect...
A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.
Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his...
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1596436891 |
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds friendship--and a name, Vibiana--in the most unlikely of places: Christianity.
But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is...
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
| Author | Suehiro Maruo |
| ISBN | 0867197323 |
Spoiler Alert! no, wait, I guess not. it's in the title after all. right there, front and center: Panorama Island. specifically the various Panoramas of various World Fairs of a century or so ago. and thus the island's great secret is blown.
no matter. Strange Tale is less about secrets waiting...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1894937872 |
"These stories get under your skin and invite rereading." -BookForum
Abandon the Old in Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and...
The Push Man and Other Stories
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1896597858 |
A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.
Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1897299370 |
“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times
Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected...
| Author | Imiri Sakabashira |
| ISBN | 1897299915 |
THE FIRST STORY TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE SURREALIST AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA-KA
Enter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira, whose denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. The Box Man follows its protagonists along...
| Author | Tadao Tsuge |
| ISBN | 1770461744 |
Dark and funny comics from a Garo magazine manga-ka
Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic storytelling and clear, eloquent cartooning....
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1897299745 |
The epic autobiography of a manga master
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 1939799120 |
In this, Yuichi Yokoyama's long-awaited original graphic novel, published simultaneously in Japan and France, a stripped-back plot and minimal characterizations allow the artistry of Yokoyama's ethereal drawings to shine through. The events within the narrative are spare and enigmatic: Yokoyama...
| Author | Oji Suzuki |
| ISBN | 1770460098 |
A new author in D+Q’s acclaimed gekiga line
In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human...
| Author | Seiichi Hayashi |
| ISBN | 1939799074 |
Seiichi Hayashi was a leading figure in the hotbed of avant-garde artistic production of 1960s and early 70s Tokyo. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for "Garo," the famous alternative comics magazine. This volume collects a selection of Hayashi's most important manga from this...
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation,...
| Author | Seiichi Hayashi |
| ISBN | 1897299400 |
A true cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s
Seiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of...
L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec...
| Author | Baron Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 1940398754 |
A collection of some of the best stories by Baron Yoshimoto, one of the seminal Japanese manga artists who helped develop the graphic novel form in the 1960s and 1970s by targeting an older audience with scintillating and exquisitely drawn stories. The stories included are "Eriko's Happiness", "High...
Tadao Tsuge (born in 1941) has been drawing comics since the late 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the central contributors to the underground comics magazine Garo, and the magazines Yako and Gento. In addition to cartooning, Tsuge is an avid fisherman and has written essays on the subject....
Fukushima Devil Fish: Anti-Nuclear Manga
A fascinating collection of stories that span from the late 1960s to the 1980s. There are three kinds of manga that are being presented here, three kinds of Katsumata (if you will). The first two stories in the collection are from later in his career. These are his tales exploring the ramifications of...
Ces jours qui disparaissent
| Author | Timothé Le Boucher |
| ISBN | 2344013326 |
Que feriez-vous si d’un coup vous vous aperceviez que vous ne vivez plus qu’un jour sur deux ? C’est ce qui arrive à Lubin Maréchal, un jeune homme d’une vingtaine d’années qui, sans qu’il n’en ait le moindre souvenir, se réveille chaque matin alors qu’un jour entier vient de s’écouler....
Changer d'altitude (Essais - Documents)
Pris dans les turbulences de la vie, nous cherchons tous notre chemin vers la réussite, l’équilibre, le bonheur, la sagesse. Mais développons-nous les bons outils pour y parvenir ? Bertrand Piccard combine son expérience d’explorateur et de médecinpsychiatre, spécialisé en hypnose,...
| Author | Jamila Gavin |
| ISBN | 1405212829 |
Eighteenth-century England is the setting for Jamila Gavin's sweeping saga of growing-up, struggle, tradition and corruption. From an acorn of an idea about a real-life good Samaritan of yesteryear, the author has crafted a satisfying, if occasionally painful, novel that spans the lives of several...
El último y esperado cómic de Yuichi Yokoyama es un fragmento de travesía glacial al que el lector se aproximará con mirada de expedicionario.
A modo de anécdota propia de un viaje cualquiera, tres enigmáticos protagonistas buscan a un cuarto personaje en un entorno en el que hasta la...
| Author | Kyōichi Katayama |
| ISBN | 1421501546 |
Socrates in Love took the Japanese publishing industry by storm, becoming the all-time best selling novel in Japan! Finally, U.S. readers will be able to experience the phenomenon that became the inspiration for a blockbuster movie, a hit TV show, and a popular manga. A national sensation that touched...
An epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden.
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest...
L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1985-1987
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730943 |
Dans le premier tome publié en 2014 et qui couvre la période 1978-1984, le petit Riad est ballotté, de sa naissance à ses six ans, entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Le deuxième tome, paru en 2015, raconte sa première année d’école en Syrie (1984-1985).
Dans ce troisième...
