The Playboy

10 best books like The Playboy (Chester Brown): Imagine: How Creativity Works, What It Is, A Child's Life: Other Stories, And the Pursuit of Happiness, My New York Diary, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, Ice Haven, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella, The Poor Bastard

Imagine: How Creativity Works
AuthorJonah Lehrer
ISBN0547386079
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?

From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the...
What It Is
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1897299354
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true...
A Child's Life: Other Stories
AuthorPhoebe Gloeckner
ISBN1583940286
Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material.

Long respected as one of the finest and most original of today's underground...
And the Pursuit of Happiness
AuthorMaira Kalman
ISBN1594202672
With her trademark style, wit, sensitivity, and spontaneity, Maira Kalman guides a whirlwind tour of American democracy.

And the Pursuit of Happiness is beloved artist and author Maira Kalman's yearlong investigation of democracy and how it works. Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections,...
My New York Diary
AuthorJulie Doucet
ISBN1896597831
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT

Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in...
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
AuthorTwyla Tharp
ISBN0743235274
Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part of your life: In order...
32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1896597009
In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace:...
Ice Haven
AuthorDaniel Clowes
Welcome to Ice Haven! “It’s not as cold here as it sounds,” declares Random Wilder, our reluctant guide to this sleepy Midwestern town. He’s also its would-be poet laureate. Would-be, that is, were it not for the “florid banalities” of his archrival, Ida Wentz, pub­lished ad nauseam...
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
AuthorSeth
An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.

In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken--one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his...
The Poor Bastard
AuthorJoe Matt
ISBN1896597440
This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable...
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
AuthorLiz Prince
ISBN1891830724
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? started out as an exercise in keeping a personal comic journal of the finer points of a relationship, but quickly evolved to become Liz Prince's first solo full length comic. Described as a mix between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, Liz's comic is made up of short...
Unlikely
AuthorJeffrey Brown
ISBN1891830414
I liked this a lot because it very clearly illustrated how people lie to themselves (and therefore the other person) at the start of relationships; they want to be a better person, so they tell the person that they're better than they are. They say, "I don't do drugs anymore," or "I have no interest in that...
American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 1
AuthorJames Kochalka
A deluxe compilation of the first five years of James Kochalka's ground breaking daily diary comic strip.
Since October 1998, James Kochalka has kept a daily diary, drawn in comic strip form in his sketchbook. Drawn with relaxed and beautiful brushwork, these strips perfectly capture the rhythm...
AuthorPaul Karasik
ISBN0571226337
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY



Credo che fosse il 1991, l’anno in cui ho incontrato Paul Auster per la prima volta: La musica del caso.
E fu subito amore.
Amore grande: c’erano in Auster umori che in letteratura mi sembravano insoliti, fuori, e oltre, che all’epoca...
AuthorGabrielle Bell
A wry daily comics journal of urban ennui


Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy narration, and biting wit chronicle...
AuthorDash Shaw
I have the feeling that from time to time I will need to look at all of the Dash Shaw books I have read and not appreciated and rethink my evaluations of them. This one I think might be my favorite so far, though it may just be that I am starting to gain a greater appreciation for what he is doing. I never know exactly...
David Boring
AuthorDaniel Clowes
ISBN0375714529
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...
The Acme Novelty Library
AuthorChris Ware
ISBN0375422951
Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME...
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