The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
10 best books like The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (Julia Wertz): Calling Dr. Laura, Clyde Fans, Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter, Coyote Doggirl, The Customer is Always Wrong, Everything is Flammable, Over Easy, Make Me a Woman, Special Exits, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0547615590 |
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...
A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one’s sanity
Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes,...
Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter
| Author | Julie Delporte |
| ISBN | 2924049482 |
À quel âge ai-je commencé à me sentir flouée d’être une fille? » C’est autour de cette interrogation initiale que s’articule Moi aussi je voulais l’emporter, réflexion personnelle sur le genre qui devient au fil des pages un véritable récit d’apprentissage féministe.
Inspirée...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770463257 |
Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...
The Customer is Always Wrong
| Author | Mimi Pond |
| ISBN | 1770462821 |
A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism
The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1941250181 |
"Gabrielle Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear." —Alison Bechdel, Fun Home and Are You My Mother
In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated...
| Author | Mimi Pond |
| ISBN | 1770461531 |
A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s.
Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the...
| Author | Vanessa Davis |
| ISBN | 1770460217 |
Make Me a Woman offers charming vignettes about being young, Jewish, and single
It's easy to understand why Vanessa Davis has taken the comics industry by storm and is poised to do the same with the world at large—her comics are pure chutzpah, gorgeously illustrated in watercolors. No story...
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense,...
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
| Author | Sarah Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1551111179 |
"In this powerful memoir ... Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare black-and-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions: shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration...
| Author | Lilli Carré |
| ISBN | 1606995979 |
The creator of 2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon named to many annual critics lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today.
Carré’s...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770461167 |
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 1416549471 |
Funny Misshapen Body is the story of Jeffrey Brown's evolution as a cartoonist, from his youthful obsession with superhero comics to his disillusionment with fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawn with Brown's scratchy, spare, trademark style, Funny Misshapen Body resonates...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1897299575 |
Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New York
Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short...
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770462872 |
Jenny, post-breakup, becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser,...
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel
| Author | Anya Ulinich |
| ISBN | 0143125249 |
*A New York Times Notable Book*
“Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists.”
—Gary Shteyngart
Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of “grown-up” dating in this darkly...
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 1770461612 |
The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable,...
