The Salon
10 best books like The Salon (Nick Bertozzi): Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1, Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, Omega the Unknown, Tower of Treasure, The Sign of the Black Rock, Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula, Spaniel Rage, The Parade
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists
| Author | Chris Duffy |
| ISBN | 1596438231 |
From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier,...
The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1
| Author | Kazuo Umezu |
| ISBN | 1421507226 |
In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away...somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland...
Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths
| Author | Graham Annable |
| ISBN | 1626725616 |
Peter and Ernesto are sloths. Peter and Ernesto are friends. But Peter and Ernesto are nothing alike. Peter loves their tree and never wants to leave, while Ernesto loves the sky and wants to see it from every place on Earth. When Ernesto leaves to have a grand adventure, Peter stays behind and frets. The...
One of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection—part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography, all genius.
Long a fixture in comics anthologies, David Heatley's deceptively crude, wickedly observant drawings have begun...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0785130527 |
As a child, Lethem was one of the many who were touched by a strange, singular, prescient comic called 'Omega the Unknown', which prefigured the psychological depth, realism, and genre deconstruction of the early Vertigo titles (my review here). As a successful adult, Lethem desired to return to the...
| Author | Scott Chantler |
| ISBN | 1554534143 |
As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her...
A MIND-BOGGLING MIX OF FRIENDSHIP, BETRAYAL AND ESCAPE--ALL IN ONE DARK AND STORMY NIGHT.
Dessa, Topper and Fisk continue their search for Greyfalcon in hopes that he will lead them to Dessa's brother. But a terible storm drives the three thieves off the road. Drenched, they take shelter at...
| Author | Andi Watson |
| ISBN | 1626721491 |
Princess Decomposia is overworked and underappreciated.
This princess of the underworld has plenty of her own work to do but always seems to find herself doing her layabout father's job, as well. The king doesn't feel quite well, you see. Ever. So the princess is left scurrying through the...
| Author | Vanessa Davis |
| ISBN | 0976684802 |
“I love [Davis’s] free-form drawing . . . She just has a funny, truthful voice.” —Audrey Niffenegger
Vanessa Davis’s autobiography, more observational than confessional, delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 0735277524 |
From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.
Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering...
| Author | Brenden Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1534309225 |
An evil spell has been cast on the Queen of Maar and her Captain of the Guard will do anything to reverse it. Their only hope lies on an island half a world away--a place known in myth as Isola, land of the dead.
Gotham Academy creators Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl reunite with series colorist...
Spider-Man: The Gauntlet - The Complete Collection Vol. 1
| Author | Dan Slott |
| ISBN | 1302918451 |
Spider-Man runs the gauntlet in a saga that redefines his classic arch-enemies one by one! The violent tension between Spidey and Norman Osborn builds to a boil! Electro becomes the voice of the common man against the brutal injustice of a system overloaded by greed! When one of Peter Parker's closest...
Spider-Man Noir: The Complete Collection
The hard-boiled adventures of the grittiest webslinger in the Spider-Verse! In the dark days of the Great Depression, young reporter Peter Parker finds himself forever changed by a spider's bite - and resolves to take on crime and corruption as the urban vigilante called Spider-Man! And there are...
| Author | Mark Chiarello |
| ISBN | 1401238890 |
Amazon Best Books of the Month selection for June 2013
Originally published in 2004, the 12-issue series SOLO gave some of comics' greatest creators the chance to create stories set in the DC Universe and beyond. Each issue featured one artist, including Tim Sale (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN),...
The breakout graphic novel series from MIND MGMT creator Matt Kindt and Beware the Creeper writer Jason Hall returns, in color for the first time and collected in its entirety! The edition includes both Pistolwhip books for the first time in hardcover, along with the Mephisto and the Empty Box one-shot...
| Author | Mawil |
| ISBN | 3943143902 |
Wer eine bitterernste grafische Geschichte mit wirklichen Tiefgang über die ausklingende DDR erwartet, sollte es erwägen, die Hände von diesem Buch zu lassen oder einfach seine Erwartungshaltung ändern. Ich empfehle Letzteres. Denn "Kinderland" sprüht vor Energie, Humor und Spitzfindigkeiten....
