Stigmata
10 best books like Stigmata (Lorenzo Mattotti): Here, Beautiful Darkness, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, By This Shall You Know Him, Black Blizzard, Arsène Schrauwen, Sacred Heart, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
| Author | Richard McGuire |
| ISBN | 0241145961 |
Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name.
Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989.
Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it...
| 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. ...
Tales from Outer Suburbia
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 0771084021 |
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern...
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 0224079913 |
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French...
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560971169 |
Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into...
By This Shall You Know Him
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0986873985 |
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...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1770460128 |
THE PREEMMINENT GEKIGA-KA'S FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM FIFTY YEARS AGO
Created in the late 1950s,Black Blizzard is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606997300 |
In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke....
| Author | Liz Suburbia |
| ISBN | 1606998412 |
(Between 3 and 4 stars.)
Spoiler alert! This review reveals things that happen in the book.
Though "revealing" things in a review of this book is unlikely to diminish the pleasure of reading it.
Sometimes I like to read reviews before reading a book and I doubt that would have...
| Author | Paul Karasik |
| ISBN | 0571226337 |
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
Credo che fosse il 1991, l’anno in cui ho incontrato Paul Auster per la prima volta: La musica del caso.
E fu subito amore.
Amore grande: c’erano in Auster umori che in letteratura mi sembravano insoliti, fuori, e oltre, che all’epoca...
| Author | Manuele Fior |
| ISBN | 8876181717 |
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book.
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LMVDM. La mia vita disegnata male
Squarci di umanità
Un percorso a ritroso alla riscoperta della propria vita, ma anche una evoluzione nella rappresentazione a fumetti, in direzione della massima semplificazione.
Il tratto essenziale e traballante corrisponde, dal punto di vista psicologico, alla perdita...
The Lie And How We Told It
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
| Author | Michael DeForge |
| ISBN | 1770462244 |
BEST OF THE YEAR NODS FROM THE GLOBE & MAIL, AMAZON.COM, QUILL & QUIRE!
"The Toronto cartoonist's first full-length graphic novel follows a clutch of misfit ants, trying to maintain some semblance of civilization in the shadow of war. Psychedelically gorgeous, uncomfortably funny."...
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1683962079 |
So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1603091548 |
Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning LOST DOGS now returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This 104-page mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known.
Bold,...
