The Alcoholic
10 best books like The Alcoholic (Jonathan Ames): Crowded, Vol. 1, Exit Wounds, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Sugar Skull, DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, Drinking at the Movies, Immortal Hulk, Volume 3: Hulk In Hell, Mister Wonderful: A Love Story, Clumsy
Author | Christopher Sebela |
ISBN | 1534310541 |
Ten minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, while crowdfunding has evolved into Reapr: a platform for assassination that's trickled down from politicians, celebrities and CEOs to everyday life and all its petty resentments. A world where anyone with enough backers...
Author | Rutu Modan |
ISBN | 1897299060 |
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment...
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Author | Ed Brubaker |
ISBN | 1534308466 |
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.
Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...
Author | Charles Burns |
ISBN | 0307907902 |
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish
Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground
Author | Brian Wood |
ISBN | 1401210627 |
It's Civil War, Dude... Cool!
The premise sounds interesting enough: "With overseas wars bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the United States. Like a sleeping giant, Middle...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
Author | Will Eisner |
ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
Author | Julia Wertz |
ISBN | 0307591832 |
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over...
Immortal Hulk, Volume 3: Hulk In Hell
Author | Al Ewing |
ISBN | 1302915061 |
Jackie McGee is in Hell. Carl Creel is in hell. Walter Langkowski is in Hell. Eugene Judd is in Hell. Carl Burbank is in Hell. Los Diablos is in Hell. Shadow Base is in Hell. New Mexico is in Hell. Planet Earth is in Hell. We are all in Hell... and so is the IMMORTAL HULK. It whispers through many mouths. It destroys...
Author | Daniel Clowes |
ISBN | 0307378136 |
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie,...
Author | Jeffrey Brown |
ISBN | 0971359768 |
Jeffrey Brown's crude artistic style is certainly an acquired taste, and many may not get past his drawings. However, those willing to delve into his comics will find that his style coincides nicely with the intensely personal nature of his stories. Brown, in both his art and his writing, not only brings...
Author | Chester Brown |
ISBN | 1770460489 |
A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION
Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His bestselling 2003 graphic novel, Louis Riel, was a biographical...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1: High School Is Hell
Author | Jordie Bellaire |
ISBN | 1684153573 |
Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon!
This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and...
Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
ISBN | 1549302922 |
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
Author | Ed Brubaker |
ISBN | 1534314407 |
Just in time for Convention Season, the ultimate comic con crime tale!
Comics won't just break your heart.
Comics will just kill you.
Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting to receive a lifetime...
Author | Marisa Acocella Marchetto |
ISBN | 0307267474 |
From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self—and a challenge to change her life for the better.
Glamorous,...
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life
Author | Ellen Forney |
ISBN | 1683961013 |
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering...
Trees, Vol. 2: Two Forests
Author | Warren Ellis |
ISBN | 1632155222 |
Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they...
L. Nichols, a trans man, artist, engineer and father of two, was born in rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him. L.'s irresistibly...