The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft
10 best books like The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft (Reinhard Kleist): A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, The Photographer, Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story, Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads, Good Dog, Kafka, Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais, Ces jours qui disparaissent, Portugal, Tout Seul
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596433752 |
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevres photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert,...
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
From one of Europe’s most celebrated young comics artists, a deeply personal story that will resonate with all who have chosen to love in the face of great challenges. One summer night at a house party, Fred met Cati. Though they barely spoke, he vividly remembered her gracefulness and abandon. They...
| Author | Nick Hayes |
| ISBN | 1419719459 |
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually...
| Author | Graham Chaffee |
| ISBN | 1606996363 |
Good Dog marks the welcome return of alternative cartoonist Graham Chaffee, who, after his successful 2003 collection of short stories, The Most Important Thing and other Stories, took a detour to devote himself to the art of tattooing, before charging back with his new, beautifully conceived graphic...
| Author | David Zane Mairowitz |
| ISBN | 1596878126 |
Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb's Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland texbook never could! R. Crumb's Kafka goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey. It's a work of art in its own right, a very...
Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais
| Author | Fabien Toulmé |
| ISBN | 2756035505 |
Intorno alla disabilità c'è spesso uno scontro tra due posizioni. Le bestie, come le chiamo io, tutti quelli che non hanno sensibilità o empatia, che non vorrebbero voler neanche vedere i disabili, e i compassionevoli, schiavi del politically correct (riuscendo poi a risultare a volte più offensivi...
Ces jours qui disparaissent
| Author | Timothé Le Boucher |
| ISBN | 2344013326 |
Que feriez-vous si d’un coup vous vous aperceviez que vous ne vivez plus qu’un jour sur deux ? C’est ce qui arrive à Lubin Maréchal, un jeune homme d’une vingtaine d’années qui, sans qu’il n’en ait le moindre souvenir, se réveille chaque matin alors qu’un jour entier vient de s’écouler....
| Author | Cyril Pedrosa |
| ISBN | 2800148136 |
Quand un retour aux sources imprévu devient renaissance à soi-même.
Plus vraiment d'inspiration, plus d'envies et pas de projets, l'auteur de BD Simon Muchat végète doucement dans son boulot d'animateur scolaire, et exaspère Claire, sa compagne, qui le voudrait plus investi.
Invité...
| Author | Christophe Chabouté |
| ISBN | 2749304296 |
An entire life spent alone on a rock. What's he do all day?
This graphic novel is stunning.
First published in France in 2008, Alone was just translated into English this year, and I'm grateful I had the chance to read this beautiful book. It's about a disfigured man who lives alone in...
Août 1973. Zidrou et Lafebre nous font une place dans la 4L rouge Esterel de la famille Faldérault : entre les parents et les 4 enfants, nous voici en route vers le Midi pour de "beaux étés" ! Chaque année, les mêmes rituels : Pierre, le père, rend ses planches de B.D. en retard, les chansons de vacances,...
