The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
9 best books like The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) (The New Yorker): Behold the Man, The Day of the Locust, Top 10, Vol. 1, The Doonesbury Chronicles, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories, His Kisses Are Dreamy-- But Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage--!: Another Tender Outland Collection, The Burnt Orange Heresy, The Great Comic Book Heroes
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1585677647 |
Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre...
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 0451523482 |
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1563896680 |
This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve.
In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the extremely diverse...
The Doonesbury Chronicles
| Author | G.B. Trudeau |
| ISBN | 0030152569 |
In 1975, for the first time in the history of journalism awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to a comic strip: Garry Trudeau's nationally syndicated Doonesbury.
"It is not only the best comic strip, but the best satire that's come along in a long time."
—Art Buchwald
Carried...
| 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 | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0486295583 |
Undoubtedly the world's best-known fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, with his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, is the scourge of London's underworld, sallying forth from his rooms at 221B Baker Street to solve crimes and bring evildoers to justice. Now four of the best Holmes stories have been...
| Author | Berkeley Breathed |
| ISBN | 0316108677 |
Still as fun as ever! While BB's comics often refer to political situations, the references are skewed just enough that they could be about today's scandals as much as about the ones from 25 years ago. When they were discussing issues related to a US presidential election, I had trouble for a while figuring...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 0786706686 |
A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career. Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford...
The Great Comic Book Heroes
| Author | Jules Feiffer |
| ISBN | 1560975016 |
Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jules Feiffer's long out-of-print and seminal essay of comics criticism, The Great Comic Book Heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In 1965, Feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s,...
