The Best American Comics 2006
10 best books like The Best American Comics 2006 (Harvey Pekar): Chroniques de Jérusalem, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Stuck Rubber Baby, Big Questions, In the Shadow of No Towers, Drinking at the Movies, Dogs and Water, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 2756025690 |
Guy Delisle et sa famille s’installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4000 ans. Au
détour d’une ruelle, à la sortie d’un lieu saint, à la terrasse d’un café,...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
| Author | Howard Cruse |
| ISBN | 1563892553 |
Art and story combine powerfully in this lyrical tale of a young man caught in the maelstrom of the civil rights movement and the entrenched homophobia of small-town America. Toland Polk, the son of an uneducated white carpenter, has grown up in the Southern town of Clayfield. It is the 1960s, a time of...
| Author | Anders Nilsen |
| ISBN | 1770460470 |
A haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and more than six hundred pages of work that details...
In the Shadow of No Towers
| Author | Art Spiegelman |
| ISBN | 0670915416 |
Catastrophic, world-altering events like the September 11 attacks on the United States place the millions of us who experience them on the "fault line where world history and personal history collide." Most of us, however, cannot document that intersection with the force, compression, and poignancy...
| 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...
| Author | Anders Nilsen |
| ISBN | 1897299087 |
Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only...
| Author | Justin Hall |
| ISBN | 1606995065 |
Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300111703 |
Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a “modern” sensibility. As with Chris Ware’s selections for his best-selling McSweeney’s anthology,...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300126719 |
Ivan Brunetti returns with a new selection of 20th and 21st-century comic creations by some of the most original artists in the medium
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan...
| Author | Anne Ishii |
| ISBN | 1606997858 |
Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay...
| Author | Danny Gregory |
| ISBN | 1401307957 |
In the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn't been married long. Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell. And then Patti fell under a subway train...
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1506706665 |
The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and...
| Author | Gabby Schulz |
| ISBN | 0996273913 |
"Last year, he got our attention for his disturbingly brilliant graphic novel Monsters. . . . Gabby Schulz has gone on to create a similarly unnerving web comic series titled Sick."—Flavorwire
The author of the perennial classic, Monsters (written as Ken Dahl), Gabby Schulz returns with...
| Author | Alex Robinson |
| ISBN | 1891830988 |
From the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind Box Office Poison and Tricked comes the delightful 2 Cool 2 B 4Gotten, a story of second chances.Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who's making one final attempt to quit smoking: hypnosis. He's skeptical it will work, but is stunned to find...
| Author | Dash Shaw |
| ISBN | 1560979151 |
Bottomless Belly Button is a graphic novel comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. When the parents announce their divorce, the family comes together at their beach house for a week. Dennis, the eldest son, is having marriage troubles of his own, and searches for...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0375422951 |
Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME...
