The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln
10 best books like The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln (Noah Van Sciver): How To Be Happy, Unterzakhn, Off Season, Beautiful Darkness, Crawl Space, Beverly, Flood!: A Novel in Pictures, How the World Was: A California Childhood, Girl Town, Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
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,...
Author | Leela Corman |
ISBN | 0805242597 |
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of...
Author | James Sturm |
ISBN | 1770463313 |
Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel.
How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s...
Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
Author | Jesse Jacobs |
ISBN | 1927668417 |
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
Author | Nick Drnaso |
ISBN | 1770462252 |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak.
A group of teenagers...
Author | Eric Drooker |
ISBN | 0941423794 |
An American Book Award winner and an Editor's Choice of the New York Times, Flood! is the powerful first graphic novel by Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for the New Yorker. Flood! is a modern novel written in the ancient language of pictures, with an expressionist, film noir edge. This "definitive...
Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
ISBN | 1596436646 |
In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II.
How the World...
Author | Carolyn Nowak |
ISBN | 1603094385 |
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.
Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts
is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (
Kitchen Confidential
, Emmy-Award winning TV star of
Parts Unknown
) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (
Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster
) back again from their
New York Times
#1 best seller,
...
Author | Daniel Clowes |
ISBN | 0375714529 |
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in...
Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
ISBN | 1549302922 |
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
Author | Sarah Vaughn |
ISBN | 1534310584 |
Nearly a year later in the court of Harbeny, Lady Poppy and Sir Cyrenic must forge ahead without each other. Cyrenic adjusts to life after being released from the Sleepless Vow. And though Poppy has allies old and new, she buckles under the pressure to marry Lord Helder. The future looks bleak, but both...
Doom Patrol, Volume 1: Brick by Brick
Author | Gerard Way |
ISBN | 1401269796 |
The spirit of Grant Morrison's groundbreaking Doom Patrol is captured in this debut series starring the cult-favorite misfits as a part of Gerard Way's new Young Animal imprint.
Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and more are back to twist minds and take control. This new take on a classic...