The Abominable Charles Christopher, Vol. 1
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| Author | Tracy J. Butler |
| ISBN | 0981959903 |
St. Louis 0 1927.
Times change. Laws change. People still want booze.
For the better part of a decade, hidden beneath the inconspicuous Little Daisy Cafe, the city's best-kept secret has slaked the thirst of a prohibition-wearied populace.
Lackadaisy.
Unfortunately,...
| Author | Ursula Vernon |
| ISBN | 0976921227 |
"Digger is a story about a wombat. More specifically, it is a story about a particularly no-nonsense wombat who finds herself stuck on the wrong end of a one-way tunnel in a strange land where nonsense seems to be the specialty. Now with the help of a talking statue of a god, an outcast hyena, a shadow-being...
After years of reading and study I have a deal with myself: I no longer read books that directly or indirectly tell me (or anyone else) that I'm (or they're) a second-class citizen. Time's up.
In picking this book up I was intrigued by the promise of weird and surreal creatures in context of an adventure...
Daughter of the Lord of Thieves, Sette Frummagem is on a mission, and she'll lie, cheat, and steal to make sure it's a success (she'll lie, cheat, and steal anyway). Condemned to aid her in her rotten endeavours is a rotten corpse who seems oddly talented with the supernatural, and oddly not laying motionless...
| Author | Minna Sundberg |
| ISBN | 9163746271 |
A Redtail's Dream is something that isn't often seen in mainstream comics. There are no superheroes, excessive violence, grittiness or sex. What we have instead is a modern adventure making use of the folklore of Finland to create a resonant and beautiful tale of friendship.
Hannu and Ville,...
| Author | Trudy Cooper |
| ISBN | 1936561980 |
[Edit] Apparently I sound homophobic, anti-gay, anti-sex, or just anti-everything. Here's the review everyone seems to want: I loved this book! It was fan-fucking-tastic it's so awesome it can draw demons out of possessed babies, and cure cancer. It might just be the most thought provoking book of...
| Author | Thomas Siddell |
| ISBN | 1936393239 |
In the third volume of this critically acclaimed Webcomic series, Annie and Kat continue to uncover terrible secrets about their school, Gunnerkrigg Court, while relationships grow and the boundaries of reality are blurred. In the meantime, Coyote begins to show that things in the forest are not...
Namesake is the story of Emma Crewe, a woman who discovers she can visit other worlds. She finds out that these are places she already knows – fantasy and fairy lands made famous through the spoken word, literature and cinema. Her power as a Namesake forces her to act as a protagonist in these familiar...
One of our teen volunteers was the first to recommend the Johnny Wander webcomic to me. I was looking for good webcomics at the time and kept up with it, as well as others I found at the time, ever since. It emerged as one of my favorites.
Ananth and Yuko feel like friends of mine. They're cat people (I'm...
Hanna Falk Cross is a paranormal investigator. Or at least, that's what his card says. But as people get to know him, one finds that there is not a lot of detective work in Hanna's daily life, but rather more of a mad scramble to get out of whatever mess he so wonderfully landed himself (and others) in.
Having...
"My name is Luca Valentino. I came to Uitspan two years ago."
It's the eighteenth century of the Imperial Calender and the Empire of Warassa is at its peak. Spanning a full continent, and experiencing a new mastery of the magic known as the principles of Sfeer Theory, one might go so far as to call...
Young Yun Hee wakes one night to find her sister Sun Hee missing from their room. When she goes to look for her, she comes across a gory sight: her entire family being devoured by a nine-tailed fox. Yun Hee survives with supernatural help, but when she wakes, the fox demon is by her hospital bed, wearing her...
| Author | Tatsuya Ishida |
| ISBN | 1595823190 |
Tatsuya Ishida's daily strip has become one of the world's most-read and longest-running webcomics. Drawing on wide-ranging influences--most notably Bill Watterson's remarkable Calvin and Hobbes--Sinfest xplores religion, advertising, sex, and politics in a way fleen.com calls "both brutally...
| Author | Sarah Ellerton |
| ISBN | 0981959938 |
The Phoenix Requiem is a Victorian-inspired supernatural fantasy story about faith, love, death, and the things we believe in.
On a cold December night, a gentleman stumbles into the town of Esk, gunshot wounds leaving a trail of blood in the snow behind him. Despite making a full recovery...
| Author | Bobby Crosby |
| ISBN | 1932775617 |
This is collects the entire Dreamless graphic novel style webcomic.
Dreamless is the story of two people living worlds apart, one in America and one in Japan, who see through each other minds instead of dreaming when they sleep. The story of the bond they form is very touching, well told and amazingly...
| Author | Meredith Gran |
| ISBN | 0345520432 |
What is Octopus Pie?
Follow the adventures of two Brooklynites—Eve, a nerdy acerbic twentysomething and her roommate, Hanna, a long-lost friend who has blossomed into a chronically happy-go-lucky stoner. Crazed childhood rivals, art world hipsters, Eve’s meddlesome mom, and...
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!
| Author | Winsor McCay |
| ISBN | 0976888505 |
Winner of the 2006 Will Eisner Award
and TWO 2006 Harvey Kurtzman Awards
“Fantastical”- N.Y. Times
“Stunning Volume” - Garry Trudeau
Beginning with the first page, a collection of Nemo Adventures, 1905-1910.
128 pages, 16 x 21 inches
Here...
Zapped away as a teenager from her home era of 52 BC, Cleopatra VII found herself in the middle of a centuries’ long war in the far, far, really far, far future. Now she fights alongside P.Y.R.A.M.I.D. (Pharaoh Yasiro’s Research And Military Initiative of Defense), both human and alienkind’s...
Taking National Poetry Month's poem-a-day challenge one step further, for her fourth collection, Trista Mateer has not only compiled a chapbook of her 2016 '30 for 30' poems, but she has also chosen to include nearly everything else written in the month of April. This comes in the form of handwritten...
Winter Soldier: The Complete Collection
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785190651 |
He's been Bucky and Captain America - now, James Barnes returns to the role of the Winter Soldier!
When ex-Russian sleeper agents awaken, the trail leads to Latveria...and Winter Soldier and the Black Widow come face-to-face with Dr. Doom! Can Marvel's super-spies prevent war with Latveria?...
