The Book of Ballads
10 best books like The Book of Ballads (Charles Vess): Abbott, Snow, Glass, Apples, They Called Us Enemy, The Problem of Susan and Other Stories, Snow, Glass, Apples, Death, Luisa: Ici et là, Petit, American Gods, Volume 1: Shadows, Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Saladin Ahmed |
| ISBN | 1684152453 |
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city’s elite.
In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1472262913 |
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
The Problem of Susan and Other Stories
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1506705111 |
From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptation of the short stories and poems: The Problem...
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Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401235484 |
From the pages of Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN comes fan-favorite character Death in a new deluxe hardcover edition collecting her solo adventures!The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to...
| Author | Carole Maurel |
| ISBN | 2849532266 |
D’un côté, il y a Luisa, 33 ans, photographe culinaire célibataire et incapable de vivre plus de quelques semaines avec un homme. De l’autre, Luisa, 15 ans, des rêves plein son sac à dos, une folle envie de trouver l’amour et de vivre de la photographie… Mais aussi des sentiments inassumés...
Du plus jeune et plus petit des Ogres, c'est toute lhistoire d'une famille et de ses membres qui nous est contée. Héritage, coutumes, tiraillements... Un superbe récit gothique autour du déterminisme familial.
Petit est le fils du Roi-Ogre. A peine plus grand qu'un simple humain, il...
American Gods, Volume 1: Shadows
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1506703860 |
Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent.
Collecting...
Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1250191726 |
Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. They’ve befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. So when they meet Zita the Spacegirl, fresh from her interplanetary travels and seeking their help to face a new threat, they’re more than ready for another adventure.
But...
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534312706 |
The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage...
| Author | Sarah Vaughn |
| ISBN | 1534310584 |
Nearly a year later in the court of Harbeny, Lady Poppy and Sir Cyrenic must forge ahead without each other. Cyrenic adjusts to life after being released from the Sleepless Vow. And though Poppy has allies old and new, she buckles under the pressure to marry Lord Helder. The future looks bleak, but both...
The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs
| Author | Celine Loup |
| ISBN | 1684153522 |
After moving into a new home and giving birth to her first child, a woman worries that a supernatural force is haunting her child’s nursery, and has corrupted her husband into a creature intent on harming them both.
Emma is excited to start a family in her new home, but after her child’s birth...
To Drink Coffee with a Ghost
"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself." This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves?
From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale...
Start here, if you have a few minutes, with the actual murder ballads, many of them American country and bluegress, a couple of them traditional songs, of course. but this is a graphic novel honoring this tradition by Dutch musician and illustrator Erik Kriek, highlighting the fact that murder ballads...
| Author | Nate Powell |
| ISBN | 1603094288 |
The first and only comic book artist ever to win a National Book Award returns with a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.
As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers among the aging hippies of one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks....
| Author | Lights |
| ISBN | 1524106038 |
Skin & Earth is a story of a girl looking for hope in a hopeless world. Caught between romance and cults, gods and mortals, and just trying to find a good borscht, Enaia Jin is lead down a dark path by new lovers that reveal a twisted fantasy world and her own true nature. Set in a post-apocalyptic future...
Dept. H, Volume 1: Pressure
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1616559896 |
From New York Times bestselling MIND MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting and new undersea sci-fi mystery.
Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects...
