The Arctic Marauder
10 best books like The Arctic Marauder (Jacques Tardi): Billy Hazelnuts, Congress of the Animals, The Best American Comics 2013, Return of the Dapper Men, The Hidden, Super Spy, The Best American Comics 2009, Is That All There Is?, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, Dungeon: The Early Years - Vol. 1: The Night Shirt
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560977019 |
Tony Millionaire, creator of Sock Monkey and one of America's most popular weekly comic strips, Maakies, delivers his first original graphic novel for Fantagraphics, Billy Hazelnuts. Billy Hazelnuts transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606994379 |
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 0547995466 |
I'm always happy to see a new volume in this series. Whether one agrees that these are literally the "best" comics of the year or not, it's certainly at least an anthology of excellent work. Styles tend to skew more towards the arty, but if you don't like a particular piece, just skip to the next one. Some...
| Author | Jim McCann |
| ISBN | 1932386904 |
Welcome to Anorev, a world in between time, where children have played so long it’s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. This is how this land has remained, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky and...
| Author | Richard Sala |
| ISBN | 1606993860 |
This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1891830961 |
Super Spy is fifty-two interwoven short stories about cyanide, pen-guns, heartbreak and betrayal. Each story follows the life of a spy during World War II. Spanning the globe from Spain to France and Germany, this book takes the reader on a tour of the everyday life of the spy. From the small lies and deceptions...
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
| Author | Joost Swarte |
| ISBN | 1606995103 |
By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Herge s classic clear line style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed...
| 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 | Joann Sfar |
| ISBN | 1561634395 |
So I took out every volume of Dungeon that the library stocks. Now, you have to understand that Dungeon has several incarnations - Zenith is the main story. The Early Years is the ancient past. Parade are humorous side stories that take place during Zenith. Downfall is the era after Zenith, and Monstres...
| Author | Jordan Mechner |
| ISBN | 1596433914 |
I almost flipped out over this series today because I went to request the second book and found that it was never published. Not to be deterred, I used my mad librarian skillz and discovered that, after the release of Solomon's Thieves, the publisher bound all of the issues together rather than releasing...
| Author | Susan Kim |
| ISBN | 1596432624 |
Mystery, intrigue, and pastries abound in this World War II spy tale
Evelyn typically satisfies her longing for adventure with the help of a pencil and a sheet of paper. But when she makes a new friend, Tony, she's happy to abandon her art for a real-life search for spies. When the two accidentally...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561632740 |
In 1841, the body of beautiful tobacco store employee Mary Rogers was found dead in New York City's East River. It was a murder that captured the popular imagination of the time - even that of Edgar Allan Poe, whose The Mystery of Marie Rogêt would deliver a fictionalized version of the case in 1842, relocating...
A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he's losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1606994786 |
Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale...
| Author | Paul Chadwick |
| ISBN | 1593073437 |
Part man, part…rock? Over seven feet tall and weighing over a thousand pounds, he is known as Concrete but is in reality the mind of one Ronald Lithgow, trapped inside a shell of stone, a body that allows him to walk unaided on the ocean's floor or survive the crush of a thousand tons of rubble in a collapsed...
Infinite Kung Fu walks you through familiar corridors in the house of martial mayhem, but still smashes your face through walls of wonder and into rooms where kung fu is afraid to go! The Martial World is ruled by a mysterious emperor whose five armies are each headed by a cruel and highly skilled kung fu...
