The Blending Time
10 best books like The Blending Time (Michael Kinch): The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, Black Hole, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street, Habibi, Krampus: The Yule Lord, Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, Frankenstein, 乙嫁語り 10 [Otoyomegatari 10], Saga: Book Three
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
| Author | Brian Selznick |
| ISBN | 0439813786 |
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most...
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0060515228 |
This is a stunning collection of short stories by acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. His distinctive genius has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The Sandman Neil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated, intelligent, and influential graphic novel...
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1563894459 |
After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his...
| Author | Craig Thompson |
| ISBN | 0375424148 |
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets , a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance,...
Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire...
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
| Author | Matt Dembicki |
| ISBN | 1555917240 |
Meet the Trickster, a crafty creature or being who disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself in the process. Whether a coyote or rabbit, raccoon or raven, Tricksters use cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief.
In Trickster,...
Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley!
The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster — and the fouler beast who created him — to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro for which he is known.
Also included are six tales of Oshikiri...
乙嫁語り 10 [Otoyomegatari 10]
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 4047348295 |
A Bride's Story, volume 10, continues the beautifully drawn and research-enriched tale of the nineteenth century Silk Road. Period architecture and clothing, plains landscape, and closely-observed cultural practices are mangka Kyoko Mori’s historical fiction jam here. The heart of the story...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1534312218 |
At long last, it's finally time for the THIRD massive hardcover collection of SAGA, the critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy series from the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist FIONA STAPLES and writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN. Collecting 18 of the most shocking and impactful issues from the epic...
| Author | Jules Feiffer |
| ISBN | 0871403145 |
Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired...
