The Quitter

10 best books like The Quitter (Harvey Pekar): All of Me, Clan Apis, An Age of License: A Travelogue, High Society, We Are On Our Own, Why I Hate Saturn, Mom's Cancer, The Alcoholic, The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories, To the Heart of the Storm

All of Me
AuthorChris Baron
"Beautifully written, brilliant, and necessary." --Matt de la Pena, Newbery Medalist


Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create, and his father...
AuthorJay Hosler
Clan Apis is one of the funniest and most moving educational books I've ever read. Jay Hosler's writing is clear and inventive; you don't even notice you're learning a lot while you're reading this. Very much in the vein of what Richard Adams does for rabbits in Watership Down, Hosler does a fantastic...
An Age of License: A Travelogue
AuthorLucy Knisley
ISBN1606997688
Midnight picnics at the Eiffel Tower; wine tastings paired with blowgun lessons; and romance in cafés, cemeteries, and at the Brandenberg Gate--these are just some of New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley's experiences on her 2011 European book tour. An Age of License is both a graphic...
High Society
AuthorDave Sim
ISBN0919359078
Reprinting Cerebus Issues 26-50

Volume two of the Cerebus the Aardvark series, High Society, is the beginning of the main Cerebus story line and one of the finest graphic novels ever published. If you have to start from the very beginning, you'll need the first volume, Cerebus, but if you don't...
We Are On Our Own
AuthorMiriam Katin
ISBN1896597203
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father...
AuthorKyle Baker
ISBN0930289722
fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #8: a comic written or illustrated by a person of color

and that color is tie dye.



extra points given to me, by me, for choosing a book that i have owned for more than a year. *

review to come.

* which is a teensy...
Mom's Cancer
AuthorBrian Fies
ISBN0810958406
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.

This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
AuthorJonathan Ames
ISBN1401210562
Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Ames writes his first comics work with the original graphic novel THE ALCOHOLIC, illustrated by THE QUITTER artist Dean Haspiel.

This touching, compassionate, ultimately humorous story explores the heart of a failing writer who's coming off a doomed romance...
AuthorMœbius
ISBN1569711321
This collection of nine short stories, six of which are told without the use of dialogue or sound effects, features the mysterious character Arzach, first created in 1976 by the French writer and illustrator Moebius.

It is not apparent whether the eponymous character is a hero, an antihero...
AuthorWill Eisner
ISBN1563896796
To the Heart of the Storm is Will Eisner’s memoir of growing up in Depression-era New York as well as a truncated bio of his maw and paw. It’s framed by a 25 year old Eisner looking out of a train window as he heads to war in 1942 looking back on his past.

I thought this one was fairly interesting....
It's a Bird...
AuthorSteven T. Seagle
ISBN1401203116
Gorgeously painted by European artist, Teddy Kristiansen, It's a Bird... is a Superman story that doesn't feature Superman at all. Rather, this unique graphic novel explores what the icon of Superman means to the world. Told from the perspective of an author who has written tales about Superman, this...
AuthorAlejandro Jodorowsky
ISBN2731605847
Dans un univers futuriste aux dimensions inimaginables, un médiocre détective privé, John Difool, se retrouve un beau jour à la tête d'une enquête qui ne tardera pas à le dépasser totalement, et à l'entraîner dans un monde étrange mêlant science-fiction et expériences divines, dans...
AuthorDan Wickline
ISBN1600100856
I don't know a thing about Dan Wickline other than that he wrote a dumb story arc for the 30 Days of Night franchise called Spreading the Disease. In this dumb story arc, an FBI agent is led on an X Files-esque goose chase that connects the earthbound investigation into the vampire carnage in space that served...
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
Coquelicots d'Irak
AuthorBrigitte Findakly
Lewis Trondheim et Brigitte Findakly forment en bande dessinée comme à la ville un duo depuis de nombreuses années. Si la bibliographie pléthorique de Lewis Trondheim n’a plus de secret pour personne, celle de Brigitte Findakly, son épouse et coloriste, quoique toute aussi importante, reste...
Scenes from an Impending Marriage
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1770460349
MAKING LIGHT OF NUPTIAL NARCISSM

At the behest of his soon-to-be wife, Adrian Tomine set out to create a wedding favor for their guests that would be funnier and more personal than the typical chocolate bars and picture frames. What started out as a simple illustrated card soon grew...
Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered The Kaiser
AuthorJoe Sacco
ISBN1606997483
In the vein of the old underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, author Joe Sacco promises that BUMF will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to do.” Though world-famous for his serious, journalistic books like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and Footnotes in Gaza, Bumf promises to echo back to Sacco’s...
Killing and Dying: Stories
AuthorAdrian Tomine
ISBN1770462090
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." —Wired

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN1563897962
Witness.
Here I am: Spider Jerusalem, media element, TV celebrity, quotable, that wild and crazy guy who does that controversial muckraking column that no one really reads... lost in mix.

Another face in the crowd.

Spider is having a bad time in his city. His column was silenced...
New York: The Big City
AuthorWill Eisner
ISBN0393328058
I am deeply impressed with Will Eisner's level of talent. These are rich, beautiful comics full of life from the inside out; New York-as-metaphor-for-humanity at it's finest, all the colour and noise of the big city in short, fragile glimpses. What he put together here in 142 pages is maybe the most perfect...
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