The Making Of
10 best books like The Making Of (Brecht Evens): Sabrina, Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter, Asterios Polyp, Wilson, The Walking Man, Arsène Schrauwen, Beverly, Sunny, Vol. 1, Mister Wonderful: A Love Story, Heads or Tails
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
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 | David Mazzucchelli |
| ISBN | 0307377326 |
The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1770460071 |
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series...
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 8493340995 |
Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent,...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606997300 |
In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke....
| 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 | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1421555255 |
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet.What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams.
Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 0307378136 |
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie,...
| 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 | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1683960823 |
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things....
| 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 | Ben Gijsemans |
| ISBN | 9077549870 |
A beautiful graphic novel by Belgian Gijsemans about a man, Hubert, possibly autistic, living alone, who loves art and spends time going to art museums in Belgium and Paris. He takes photographs of some of his favorites, some of which feature women, and he paints some of these images for himself. He is...
| 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,...
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,...
