The Squirrel Mother
10 best books like The Squirrel Mother (Megan Kelso): Demo: The Collection, Life Sucks, The Push Man and Other Stories, Escape from "Special", You'll Never Know, Vol. 1: A Good and Decent Man, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924, Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, Skyscrapers of the Midwest
| Author | Brian Wood |
| ISBN | 1932051422 |
Did you like DMZ or Northlanders? This ain't either one of those, and you should put this book down and walk away.
This should be called Slit your Wrists: A Teenage Guide to how cool it is to kill yourself.
These collection of 12 stories are mostly depressing, very downer,...
| Author | Jessica Abel |
| ISBN | 1596431075 |
Life sucks for Dave Marshall.
The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil.
Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural...
The Push Man and Other Stories
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1896597858 |
A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.
Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi...
Fantagraphics Books is proud to follow up our launch of rising star R. Kikuo Johnson (author of the acclaimed Night Fisher) by showcasing Miss Lasko-Gross in her graphic- novel debut. Escape from "Special" is the coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small child and depart from at the...
| Author | Carol Tyler |
| ISBN | 1606991442 |
You’ll Never Know is the first graphic novel from C. Tyler (Late Bloomer)
and sure to be one of the most acclaimed books of the year. It tells the story of the 50-something author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | George A. Walker |
| ISBN | 1554072700 |
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book."
- New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman
Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues...
| Author | Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama |
| ISBN | 1880656337 |
History. Cartoons. Asian American Studies. Originally published in mixed Japanese and English in San Francisco in 1931, "The Four Immigrants Manga" is Henry Kiyama's visual chronicle of his immigrant experience in the United States. Drawn in a classic gag-strip comic-book style, this heartfelt...
| Author | Ariel Schrag |
| ISBN | 0670062219 |
A very unscientific poll recently revealed that 99.9% of all people who attended middle school hated it. Fortunately, some of those people have grown up to be clever and talented comic artists, with an important message to share: Everyone can survive middle school! Edited by underground comics icon...
| Author | Joshua W. Cotter |
| ISBN | 0977030474 |
Observing the isolated existence of an adolescent cat, his younger brother and their overactive imaginations in the American Heartland, Skyscrapers of the Midwest serves as an intimate chronicle of their stories of childhood hope, panic, and loss. Filled with belligerent cowboys, lumbering automaton...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0618989765 |
This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right--...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0618718761 |
While The Best American Comics of 2006 had an admittedly liberal-bias (not so much a problem for me) the comics ran the gamut from conventional to wildly experimental narrative in a variety of artistic forms, so nebulous that it was difficult to categorize some of them as styles. There was fiction and...
With his Kramers Ergot series cartoonist, editor and publisher Sammy Harkham has created a comics anthology that outdoes all others - in size, style and content. Poor Sailor is his own pen and ink on bristol contribution to Kramers Ergot 4, reproduced in mini format. It is based on Guy de Maupassant's...
| Author | Ken Dahl |
| ISBN | 1934620025 |
Welcome to the Dahl House is a collection of Ken Dahl’s slice-of-life comics from 1997-2007, most of which are really crap – and I’m a fan of lo-fi sad bastard indie comics!
Most of the short stories feature Gordon Smalls, a pathetic thirtysomething loser with no job or money or any kind...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1897299540 |
Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly’s “best of” lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects...
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the first in a series of books from La Mano collecting the work of John Porcellino. Over the course of 15 years and 64 issues of his much-loved, self published 'zine KING-CAT Comics and Stories, John has chronicled his life and the world around him with honesty, grace,...
Daddy's Girl is a powerful book that uses a childlike graphic style to explore the adolescence of a young girl, Lily, whose life is being destroyed by sexual abuse. Drechsler pulls no punches in her depiction of incest, and many scenes are hard to read, but this book shows that comics can be a vehicle for...
| Author | Lauren R. Weinstein |
| ISBN | 0805078630 |
A graphic novel jam-packed with the joys and humiliations of being a teenage girl
Girl Stories began as a series of comics drawn for the teen girls' Web site gurl.com, where they generated thousands of e-mails from teenage girls (and some boys too).
Expanded into a full-length graphic novel,...
| Author | Eddie Campbell |
| ISBN | 1596431334 |
In this pseudo-autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace. Through six separate threads, each one typographically and stylistically distinct, a private investigator tries to discover the artists' fate through false trails, family and daily life reenactments, and even...
| 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 | Hideo Azuma |
| ISBN | 8496427420 |
"This manga has a positive outlook on life, and so it has been made with as much realism removed as possible."
I enjoy biographies of down and outs. From George Orwell to Charles Bukowski, literary essays on the day to day routine of the homeless have always interested me. For starters, it's good...
