Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
10 best books like Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays (Brendan Burford): Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico, Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Dar: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, Volume One, Everything is Flammable, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, You'll Never Know, Vol. 1: A Good and Decent Man, Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures, The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924, The Best American Comics 2011, A Bag of Marbles
| Author | Peter Kuper |
| ISBN | 1604860715 |
Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter...
| Author | Richard Appignanesi |
| ISBN | 0810993252 |
"Now presenting Manga Shakespearethe Bards greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers"
Romeo and Juliet" is ideally suited for the manga formatit has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot...
| Author | Erika Moen |
| ISBN | 0982343701 |
As seen online at DarComic.com, DAR! chronicles the six year long autobiographical story of Erika Moen, a lost 20-year-old lesbian artist-wannabe in college who falls in love with a boy in England and the evolution that her sexual identity undergoes before winding up marrying him as a queer 26-year-old...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1941250181 |
"Gabrielle Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear." —Alison Bechdel, Fun Home and Are You My Mother
In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated...
| Author | G.B. Tran |
| ISBN | 0345508726 |
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
| Author | Carol Tyler |
| ISBN | 1606991442 |
You’ll Never Know is the first graphic novel from C. Tyler (Late Bloomer)
and sure to be one of the most acclaimed books of the year. It tells the story of the 50-something author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 0142404233 |
Lord Fujiwara's Treasures begins the second book in the Tales of the Otori, serving as the first act of Grass for His Pillow. If this is confusing, welcome to the club. Grass for His Pillow is the second book, but it's published in two parts, this one being the first. It's not even a complete story, since...
| Author | Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama |
| ISBN | 1880656337 |
History. Cartoons. Asian American Studies. Originally published in mixed Japanese and English in San Francisco in 1931, "The Four Immigrants Manga" is Henry Kiyama's visual chronicle of his immigrant experience in the United States. Drawn in a classic gag-strip comic-book style, this heartfelt...
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 0547333625 |
“If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo—whether it’s in art, society, or the political world—what happens when that status quo at last gives way?
A universe of possibility opens up.”
—Alison Bechdel, from the Introduction
Featuring: Gabrielle...
| Author | Vincent Bailly |
| ISBN | 1467707007 |
In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father's barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0978656962 |
In 2004, Julia Wertz began a series of funny, irreverent autobiographical comics she called "The Fart Party." After posting these comics online to acclaim and controversy, she eventually started collecting these comics as self-published minis which found their way to Atomic Books in Baltimore,...
| Author | Meags Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1894994825 |
For almost a century chemical photobooths have occupied public spaces; giving people the opportunity to quickly take inexpensive, quality photos. In the last decade these machines have started to rapidly disappear, causing an eclectic group of individuals from around the world to come together...
| Author | Matt Dembicki |
| ISBN | 1555917518 |
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Spanning 1794-2009, District Comics stops along the way for a duel, a drink in the Senate's...
| Author | Geoffrey Canada |
| ISBN | 0807044490 |
Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the...
| Author | Derek Kirk Kim |
| ISBN | 1891830570 |
After selling through the self-published run of Same Difference and Other Stories in just a few short months, Derek Kirk Kim proudly moves his debut collection to Top Shelf! Through a series of sensitive -- and often hilarious -- short stories, Kim deftly explores the not-so-average twenty-something's...
| Author | Nina Bunjevac |
| ISBN | 0224098349 |
In 1975 Nina Bunjevac’s mother fled her marriage and her adopted country of Canada and took Nina back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Peter, her husband, was a fanatical Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country at the end of World War II and migrate to Canada. But even there...
| Author | Julia Baskin |
| ISBN | 0446578622 |
Everyone likes to think they started the notebook. Sophie claims she stole the idea from two girls in her math class. Courtney still has a death grip on the theory that the notebook was her invention. Lindsey doesn't really care; she's just along for the ride. And Julia never knows what's going on anyway.What...
| Author | Andy Singer |
| ISBN | 1621064867 |
Today, we're married to our cars. But life behind the wheel of an automobile didn't come naturally to Americans. Crooked politicians, unscrupulous businessmen, burning streetcars, and convoluted tax shenanigans are a few of the players in this gripping tale of corruption, greed, and endless miles...
| Author | Lauren R. Weinstein |
| ISBN | 0805078630 |
A graphic novel jam-packed with the joys and humiliations of being a teenage girl
Girl Stories began as a series of comics drawn for the teen girls' Web site gurl.com, where they generated thousands of e-mails from teenage girls (and some boys too).
Expanded into a full-length graphic novel,...
| Author | MariNaomi |
| ISBN | 1941250017 |
I first read MariNomi's Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), which comically details every romantic/sexual experience she has had. This volume is even better, really, as we broaden the scope to a range of people and experiences important to her life. 384 pages of mostly...
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 1419708465 |
Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the backdrop of American history, her tale encompasses the creation of Indian Territory, the making of Oklahoma, and the establishment of black towns and oil-rich boomtowns.
Rector acquired...
| Author | Simon Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1322508240 |
Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in East Germany, at a time when the repressive Socialist Unity Party of Germany controlled the area. Shortly before Simon's birth, his parents decided to leave their home in search of greater freedoms on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But East German authorities did...
| Author | Ilan Stavans |
| ISBN | 0465082211 |
Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks to combine the solemnity...
