The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
10 best books like The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Kim Deitch): Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book), El Borbah, Prison Pit, Vol. 1, Billy Hazelnuts, Suspended In Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, And The Century He Shaped, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!, The Frank Book, Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book)
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 0921451040 |
A LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 1560976934 |
Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled...
Prison Pit is an original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan, best known for his humor comic Angry Youth Comix. Prison Pit represents a marked departure from AYC or his Blecky Yuckerella weekly comic strip, combining his love for WWE wrestling, Gary Panter s Jimbo comics, and Kentaro Miura s Berserk...
| 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 Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 0966010655 |
Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerous man. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father...
| Author | Fletcher Hanks |
| ISBN | 1560978392 |
Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters, his work has been largely forgotten....
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
| Author | Al Columbia |
| ISBN | 1606993046 |
This gorgeous grimoire is part alchemy, part art book, part storybook, part comic book, and part conceptual art from the pen of Al Columbia, a longtime fan favorite contributor to comics anthologies like Zero Zero, Blab , and more recently, MOME. Collecting over a decade s worth of artifacts, excavations,...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Art Spiegelman |
| ISBN | 0811831795 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant...
| Author | Kevin Huizenga |
| ISBN | 1894937864 |
"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time.com
Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561634980 |
In his next volume, Geary takes us out to the wild west and the just opened up prairies of Kansas. Out on a deserted stretch of road linking newly forming towns, a mysterious family stakes a claim and builds an inn for weary visitors. Soon, reports multiply of disappearances around that area. Generally,...
| 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 | Michael Kupperman |
| ISBN | 1606991647 |
Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike, basking devotedly in the glow of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, have made it the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman s revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0241142695 |
I would like to congratulate Dave Eggers for letting Chris Ware ruin what could have been one of the most memorable issues of McSweeney’s ever. Ware hates humanity and likes to force the reader to hate it too by making his texts completely inaccessible both emotionally and (sometimes) visually. The...
| Author | John Porcellino |
| ISBN | 1894937910 |
The definitive collection of the influential comic zine
John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details, revealing...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606992945 |
One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, Ici Meme was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (A suivre) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny,...
| Author | Thomas Ott |
| ISBN | 1560975091 |
Dead End is Ott's second U.S. release, following hot on the heels of early 2002's Greetings from Hellville. Like Hellville, Dead End consists of Ott's trademark storytelling: wordless, stark, black-and-white scratchboard horror stories with twist endings, rendered beautifully with fish eye...
