Skyscrapers of the Midwest
10 best books like Skyscrapers of the Midwest (Joshua W. Cotter): Parasyte, Volume 1, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Kings in Disguise, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, Monsters, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2, Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, Fullmetal Alchemist (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 2
| Author | Hitoshi Iwaaki |
| ISBN | 0345496248 |
SILENT INVASION
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume...
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
| Author | Stephen Collins |
| ISBN | 0224096281 |
The job of the skin is to keep things in.
On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.
Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable......
| Author | James Vance |
| ISBN | 0393328481 |
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving...
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
| Author | Dan Savage |
| ISBN | 0452287634 |
In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage-outspoken author of the column "Savage Love"- makes it personal.
Dan Savage's mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn't want to act like a straight...
| Author | Ken Dahl |
| ISBN | 0979960940 |
Part fiction and part deranged educational film strip, Monsters focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of an STD that rarely affects two people the same way. Following his acclaimed collection of short comics, Welcome to the Dahlhouse, Ken Dahl cements his status...
| Author | Kevin Jennings |
| ISBN | 0807071463 |
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son's eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn't supposed to cry.
He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals,...
Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room...
| 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...
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the first in a series of books from La Mano collecting the work of John Porcellino. Over the course of 15 years and 64 issues of his much-loved, self published 'zine KING-CAT Comics and Stories, John has chronicled his life and the world around him with honesty, grace,...
| Author | Hiromu Arakawa |
| ISBN | 1421540193 |
Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audience T. Containing volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Fullmetal Alchemist
Trapped and injured in a secret alchemical laboratory, Edward Elric is at the mercy of his enemies, Lust and Envy. But they don't want him dead...they have other plans for him. As the laboratory...
| Author | Daniel Raeburn |
| ISBN | 0300102917 |
A close-up look at the gifted graphic novelist the New York Times Book Review called "the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known."
As one of today’s most renowned cartoonists, Chris Ware is widely considered an artist of genius. Combining innovative comic book art,...
All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C.
| Author | Craig Seymour |
| ISBN | 1416542051 |
A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF."I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass...
The Acme Novelty Library #1
The first issue of the Novelty Library focuses on Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid On Earth, though only two pages of this issue were later collected in the Jimmy Corrigan novel. In the main 24 page color story we see scenes from his life -- as a young boy, as a young man, as middle-aged man, and as on old man....
X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis
| Author | Ed Piskor |
| ISBN | 1302904906 |
The sequel to the critical smash hit X-MEN GRAND DESIGN is here - and it's ALL-NEW and ALL-DIFFERENT! Witness Wolverine, Thunderbird, Colossus, Storm, and Sunfire suit up as X-Men for the very first time all over again! And then the Shi'ar! The Brood! The Starjammers! Watch as Marvel's merry mutants...
| Author | Daryl Seitchik |
| ISBN | 1927668344 |
Claire Kim hates herself and the world she lives in. Working at a mirror store, she shows customers their reflections and daydreams about erasing her own. One night, on her way home, she gets her wish. Follow Claire as she wanders invisibly through the city and her own psyche.
Daryl Seitchik...
Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 8467476605 |
La obra maestra de Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys) regresa al mercado español con la edición definitiva en 9 volúmenes de lujo que recopilan toda la saga de Monster. En ella, el Dr. Tenma se enfrasca en la aventura de su vida después de salvarle la vida a Johan, un niño que llegó a su hospital con...
Samurai Executioner, Omnibus 1
| Author | Kazuo Koike |
| ISBN | 1616553197 |
Yamada Asaemon has been trained since childhood in the way of the sword. Now, the feared "Decapitator Asaemon" tests swords and performs executions at the shogun's behest. Asaemon is the last stop for the condemned and often becomes final confessor as well as slayer, finding that sometimes the stories...
| Author | Haruto Ryo |
| ISBN | 1975353315 |
2.5 stars
I’m still not sure whether to give this a 2 or 3 star rating but horror manga definitely isn’t my thing. The artwork was VERY graphic and gory at times (triggers for self-harm, child abuse, hints of incest, etc.) and there were too many up skirt shots which I really didn’t...
