The Love Bunglers
10 best books like The Love Bunglers (Jaime Hernández): Off Season, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Frank Book, Beverly, Very Casual, Luisa: Ici et là, What I Did., Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam, The Art of Jaime Hernández: The Secrets of Life and Death, Berlin
| 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...
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560971169 |
Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
| 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 | Michael DeForge |
| ISBN | 0987963074 |
Oh Canada, Oh Canada,
your horrors are too much to bear.
I can only assume you violently tortured and murdered Michael Deforge after realizing all the damning Intel he has published (in graphic novel format) about your multitudinous acts of atrocities. There is nothing casual about Very...
| Author | Carole Maurel |
| ISBN | 2849532266 |
D’un côté, il y a Luisa, 33 ans, photographe culinaire célibataire et incapable de vivre plus de quelques semaines avec un homme. De l’autre, Luisa, 15 ans, des rêves plein son sac à dos, une folle envie de trouver l’amour et de vivre de la photographie… Mais aussi des sentiments inassumés...
A matching volume to 2009'’s Almost Silent, What I Did collects three of Jason’s acclaimed 1990s graphic novels into a handsome, definitive omnibus format.
"Hey, Wait...," which was the first of Jason's books to be translated to English, tells the story of two childhood friends. A dreadful...
Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It’s a laff riot! Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple...
The Art of Jaime Hernández: The Secrets of Life and Death
| Author | Todd Hignite |
| ISBN | 0810995700 |
In 1981 three Mexican-American brothers self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets, and “changed American cartooning forever” according to Publishers Weekly. Over twenty-five years later it is still being published to critical and commercial success.
Jaime Hernández’s...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463267 |
"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, this book blows it away."—Newsday
"Astonishing in its scope, breadth and execution."—The Independent
Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through...
Gipi racconta e disegna la visione di un imprecisato futuro post catastrofe che è lo specchio esasperato del nostro presente. La fine della civiltà è arrivata, non sappiamo come. L’aria è piena di mosche, l’acqua di cadaveri e di veleni. Un padre e due figli ragazzini sono tra i pochi superstiti:...
The Lie And How We Told It
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1606997432 |
Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch. Mogg is her black cat. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphized owl. They hang out a lot with Werewolf Jones. This may sound like a pure stoner comedy, but it transcends the genre: these characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression,...
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1683962079 |
So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....
Noah Van Sciver’s latest graphic novella drops in on the life of the self-styled, aspiring young writer, Fante Bukowski, as he delusively makes his way to literary fame and fortune, one drink at a time. Living in a cheap hotel, consorting with the debased and downtrodden, searching for that golden...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1684151155 |
Three brothers who rule their own trailer park kingdom must face off against the sheriff of a neighboring town who wants their territory.
From The New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and artist Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust) comes the critically acclaimed rural mystery...
