The Canterbury Tales
10 best books like The Canterbury Tales (Seymour Chwast): Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics, Pinocchio, Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran, Bigfoot: I Not Dead, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads, The Sign of the Four: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel, The Hidden, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, The Never Weres
| Author | Miriam Engelberg |
| ISBN | 0060789735 |
Miriam Engelberg was forty-three when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like anyone faced with a life-altering personal trauma, she sought out a coping mechanism. While fellow patients championed the benefits of support groups and hypnotherapy, Engelberg found her greatest comfort in drawing,...
| Author | Winshluss |
| ISBN | 2849610674 |
This award-winning graphic novel re-imagines the story Pinocchio as a noir fairy tale both comic and tragic. In this dark rendition, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull. Critically...
| Author | Parsua Bashi |
| ISBN | 0312532865 |
Bashi tells the story of her life by using the slightly schizophrenic plot device of being approached in the present by various "selves" from other points in time. It's ultimately more confusing than anything and gave me no real sense of who she is today. And as her life experiences are so like those of...
| Author | Graham Roumieu |
| ISBN | 0452289564 |
In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to Me Write Book, Bigfoot returns from exile to share his inspiring, hilarious, and often deeply disturbing experiences as a misunderstood forest gentleman and tragic media darling. These entertaining and often grizzly stories stand not only as a testament...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561635812 |
Nights of terror A city awash in blood New Orleans right after the First World War. The party returns to the Big Easy but someone looks to spoil it. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axe and hacking them right in their own cushy beds The pattern for each murder is the...
Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1560978848 |
Ellen Forney's follow-up to her wildly successful I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of personal classifieds. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger's...
| Author | Ian Edginton |
| ISBN | 1402780036 |
The great Sherlock Holmes returns in 'The Sign of the Four', the newest 'Illustrated Classics' adaptation of a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle work.
The drama begins when a woman arrives on Holmes's doorstep asking for his help finding an anonymous person who has been sending her mysterious gifts and...
| Author | Richard Sala |
| ISBN | 1606993860 |
This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1595823565 |
What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else — and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that isn't built to withstand your size? To live in a house that doesn't fit you anymore — with a wife who doesn't either?
Craig Pressgang's life is well documented...
| Author | Fiona Smyth |
| ISBN | 1554512840 |
Late in the next century, the human race is on the verge of extinction. A mysterious virus has resulted in no births in almost a generation. Despite the impending doom, three urban teenagers try to live their lives with hope.
Mia strives to preserve humanity’s compassion through her art and...
| Author | Ken Dahl |
| ISBN | 1934620025 |
Welcome to the Dahl House is a collection of Ken Dahl’s slice-of-life comics from 1997-2007, most of which are really crap – and I’m a fan of lo-fi sad bastard indie comics!
Most of the short stories feature Gordon Smalls, a pathetic thirtysomething loser with no job or money or any kind...
| Author | Hugleikur Dagsson |
| ISBN | 0061284890 |
Hugleikur Gagsson's Should You Be Laughing at This? has achieved revered cult status and taken the Icelandic publishing world by storm. Of course, Iceland is a country whose national drink is called "Black Death," national dish is putrefied shark meat, and national literacy rate is 99.9%. That may...
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 1592641555 |
This is a collection of five short stories by Etgar Keret, each one illustrated by different artists. All the artists and the author are Israeli.
There are 5 stories in total in this book:
HaTrick: A magician's favorite trick becomes a horrible surprise every time he performs it.
Margolis:...
For your eyes only is about two young teenagers who are writing about their personal feelings, family problems, and about the new interest they have for poetry thanks to their new replacement teacher. These two students share a diary.
This book covers the category of A diary, autobiography...
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 1897299273 |
Limbs are swapped and pants are dropped in Albert and the Others, a collection of wordless strips that expose the pleasures, pitfalls, and perversities of masculinity. In this companion volume to Aline and the Others (2006),Guy Delisle delves deep into the male psyche and emerges with twenty-six...
Dear D.J. Lucas,
My uncle bought me one of your books for Christmas. It's called Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boy? I want to be a writer. I want to write a story now. Please will you help me?
Love from Max
And so begins Max's funny correspondence with his favorite author, the world-famous...
| Author | Andy Griffiths |
| ISBN | 0312367899 |
Killer Koalas from Outer Space is a collection of humorous short stories in graphic novel format, in which the characters are as the author puts it "very bad". There is little that connects each story other then the characters being "very bad", although many incorporate animals and some parody classical...
| Author | Geronimo Stilton |
| ISBN | 0545307449 |
Breakout star Creepella von Cacklefur is back in another fur-raising adventure
Oh, no Billy Squeakspeare has a big problem, and he needs Creepella's help. Someone's been digging holes around Squeakspeare Mansion at night, and Billy wants to find out who it is. The dangerous, legendary pirate...
| Author | Stephen "Steve-O" Glover |
| ISBN | 1401324339 |
"It's mind-blowing to me how utterly far gone Steve-O was, and how he looks back on it in this book with such intelligence, humor, and searing honesty. What a truly unbelievable life."
--Johnny Knoxville
From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass...
Thea Stilton and the Journey to the Lion's Den
| Author | Thea Stilton |
| ISBN | 0545556279 |
Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on this adventure packed with mystery and friendship!
The Thea Sisters are in Kenya on a photo safari! The mouselets love exploring the magnificent landscape and learning about the animals on the reserve they're visiting. A lion cub has just been born...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1117935191 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
