The Man Who Grew His Beard
10 best books like The Man Who Grew His Beard (Olivier Schrauwen): Rashomon and Other Stories, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, When I Arrived at the Castle, Paper Girls, Vol. 6, Clyde Fans, Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter, Immortal Hulk, Volume 1: Or is he Both?, The Squirrel Machine, Panter, Travel
Rashomon and Other Stories
| Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
| ISBN | 0871401738 |
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prose subtly exposing human...
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
| Author | Nora Krug |
| ISBN | 1476796629 |
Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow...
When I Arrived at the Castle
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1534313249 |
THE END IS HERE!
After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG,...
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.
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Immortal Hulk, Volume 1: Or is he Both?
| Author | Al Ewing |
| ISBN | 1302912550 |
THE RETURN OF BRUCE BANNER! You know Bruce Banner. He's quiet, calm, never complains. He's a man who believes he can use the darkest elements of his personality to do good in the world. If someone were to shoot him in the head... All he'd do is die. But the horror lives deeper. A horror that refuses to die....
| Author | Hans Rickheit |
| ISBN | 1606993011 |
An anachronistic parable for the convulsive elite. What is the squirrel machine? Is it a rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one’s guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable? A meaningless diversion?
Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, the narrative initially...
| Author | Brecht Evens |
| ISBN | 9077549889 |
Panter, de kroonprins van het koninkrijk Panteria, kruipt uit de ladenkast van kleine Christine na de dood van haar kat. Er ontspint zich een spel van verleiding tussen de charmeur en zijn prooi. In de langverwachte opvolger van De liefhebbers dompelt Brecht Evens ons onder in een verwarrende kinderlijke...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0981562205 |
The Japanese manga artist Yuichi Yokoyama's latest work, Travel, is a wordless journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche. It takes the not unfamiliar plot backdrop of a train ride and turns it into a psychological meditation on the vehicle's architecture and passengers (rather than focusing...
AN ANGOULÊME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD
The Making Of is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens’s Eisner-nominated debut, The Wrong Place. With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish...
| 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,...
Faire Semblant C'est Mentir
| Author | Dominique Goblet |
| ISBN | 2844142338 |
Maintes fois annoncé, Faire semblant c'est mentir est le résultat d'un travail autobiographique réalisé par Dominique Goblet sur douze ans. Le temps joue un rôle complet dans ce livre où recherches stylistiques et narratives se mêlent au déroulement du récit. Faire semblant c’est mentir...
| 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....
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| Author | Ana Galván |
| ISBN | 9788492615 |
"Ana Galvañ marca el rumbo de la modernidad en el cómic con un camino de losetas de colores eléctricos y fosforescentes, que nos dirigen a recónditas dimensiones alternativas donde sus viñetas encuentran nuevas y magnéticas lecturas para la ciencia-ficción." Álvaro Pons
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| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1683962052 |
In this graphic novel, teenager Tonta is staying for the weekend with her half-sister, the self-absorbed Vivian. At home, Tonta's stepfather is shot during a botched burglary, which leads to the discovery of family secrets that require Tonta to confront some unpleasant truths that she previously...
Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein
| Author | Ulli Lust |
| ISBN | 3518468138 |
Als vor acht Jahren Ulli Lusts autobiographischer Comic Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens erschien, wurde er als Meisterwerk gefeiert und mit zahlreichen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet. In ihrem sensationellen neuen Comic erzählt sie die heftige Geschichte einer ménage...
| Author | James Kochalka |
| ISBN | 1603094237 |
Superbad meets Transformers in James Kochalka's next great graphic novel, with a genuine high-school sweetness mixed in with robot action, comedy, and plenty of fistfights.
Two lovable dirtbag teens, tired of being bullied, build a robot battle suit to take revenge on their entire high...
