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10 best books like The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists (Seth): Everything Bad is Good for You, How To Be Happy, Year of the Monkey, Red as Blood and White as Bone, Houdini: The Handcuff King, The Playboy, Paying for It, Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, Itsuka, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Everything Bad is Good for You

Author	Steven Johnson
ISBN	1594481946

Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and...

How To Be Happy

Author	Eleanor Davis
ISBN	1606997408

Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...

Year of the Monkey

Author	Patti Smith
ISBN	0525657681

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...

Red as Blood and White as Bone

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	0765389428

I am a daughter of these mountains, and of the tales. Once, I wanted to be in the tales themselves. When I was young, I had my part in one—a small part, but important. When I grew older, I had my part in another kind of story. But now I want to become a teller of tales.

this story is everything that's...

Houdini: The Handcuff King

Author	Jason Lutes
ISBN	0786839023

Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...

The Playboy

Author	Chester Brown
ISBN	0969670117

read this in the bookstore and didn’t buy it shhhhhh don’t tell

I really like Chester Brown and the sort of uncomfortable honesty of his memoir-ish comics is way more appealing to me than that of R. Crumb, who feels more like an actual slime ball. That being said, this entire graphic novel...

Paying for It

Author	Chester Brown
ISBN	1770460489

A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION

Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His bestselling 2003 graphic novel, Louis Riel, was a biographical...

Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man

Author

John Porcellino

Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the first in a series of books from La Mano collecting the work of John Porcellino. Over the course of 15 years and 64 issues of his much-loved, self published 'zine KING-CAT Comics and Stories, John has chronicled his life and the world around him with honesty, grace,...

Itsuka

Author	Joy Kogawa
ISBN	0385468857

"Profoundly political, exquisitely intimate, Itsuka reverberates with longing and hope."--The Canada Times

Already a Canadian bestseller, the sequel to Joy Kogawa's award-winning novel Obasan follows the character Naomi Nakane into adulthood, where she becomes involved in the movement...

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Author	John Waters
ISBN	1250223946

"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...

My Brother's Husband, Volume 2

Author	Gengoroh Tagame
ISBN	1101871539

The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan--Yaichi's brother-in-law--changes their lives and perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.

As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning...

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Author	Lee Israel
ISBN	1416588671

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many...