To the Heart of the Storm
10 best books like To the Heart of the Storm (Will Eisner): Clan Apis, Suspended In Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, And The Century He Shaped, Lovecraft, Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke, Why I Hate Saturn, The Quitter, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889, A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence v. 1, Mort Cinder, Indian Summer
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...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 0966010655 |
Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerous man. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father...
| Author | Hans Rodionoff |
| ISBN | 1401201105 |
The Necronomicon. Cthulu, The Unnamable. The cursed town of Arkham. These icons of horror sprang from the imagination of H. P. Lovecraft. But consider this: what if the imaginary terrors that Lovecraft wrote about were not imaginary at all?
In the original graphic novel LOVECRAFT (Vertigo;...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1897299532 |
The second installment of the epic historical trilogy
The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists,...
| Author | Kyle Baker |
| ISBN | 0930289722 |
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...
| Author | Harvey Pekar |
| ISBN | 1401204007 |
""Pekar's most poignant and satisfying effort to date."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Dean Haspiel. . . .performs with virtuoso flair in THE QUITTER"--THE NEW YORKER"Brutally honest."--ROLLING STONE★"A searingly honest memoir. . . . Pekar's work dignifies the struggle of the average man."--PUBLISHERS...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561633089 |
*Book source ~ Library
From Goodreads:
Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
| Author | Vittorio Giardino |
| ISBN | 1561631809 |
Μία ακόμα καλή δουλειά από τον πάντα ποιοτικό Giardino. Η σειρά Jonas Fink δημιουργήθηκε στην δύση της καριέρας του και διακρίνονται τα σημάδια κούρασης στο σχέδιο,...
| Author | Héctor Germán Oesterheld |
| ISBN | 9505819951 |
Ezra Winston, un anticuario de Londres, es guiado por misteriosas señales hasta la tumba de un ajusticiado, un tal Mort Cinder. Este vuelve de la muerte para arrastrarlo a sombrías aventuras y para contarle historias ocurridas en el fondo de los tiempos. Obra mayor del guionista Héctor G. Oesterheld...
| Author | Hugo Pratt |
| ISBN | 1561631078 |
Siamo nel XVII secolo, ai tempi e nei pressi delle prime colonie americane, e i giorni sono quelli dell'estate 'indiana', quando l'autunno finisce e l'inverno deve ancora arrivare. L'apparente serenità del piccolo villaggio in cui la storia è ambientata è a un tratto interrotta da un tragico evento,...
| Author | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| ISBN | 2731605847 |
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...
| Author | Clive Barker |
| ISBN | 1560600853 |
From the wicked imagination of Clive Barker comes a horrific tale of a theatre stalked by the most famous movie stars of our time!
When an escaped convict commits murder and finds his way to a decaying movie palace, he cannot know that his own life is about to end, while the dreams of a half decade's...
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 0785110321 |
I admit I have zero understanding of Daredevil, can he fly? He certainly seems to jump off of really tall bulidings with damsels in distress in his his arms, he must fly.
That's the level of confusion to be found for a novice reading this Daredevil book from Frank Miller. I have no base nowledge...
Palestine, Vol. 2: In the Gaza Strip
| Author | Joe Sacco |
| ISBN | 1560973005 |
an amazing journey i recommend it very much to all graphic novel lovers
and to all Maus lovers
heads up tho kind of a heavy reading not the same light style of Maus even tho Maus was much better
it was a coincidence when i found myself reading 4 novels and and short stories collections of Palestine...
30 Days of Night, Vol. 9: Eben and Stella
| Author | Steve Niles |
| ISBN | 1600101070 |
In the waning moments of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Stella managed to bring her vampire/husband Eben back from beyond... only he came back hungry. Now, for the first time, see what happened next in this collection that fills in the black gaps between that tale and Return to Barrow. Co-creator Steve Niles...
| Author | Joann Sfar |
| ISBN | 1596431989 |
Klezmer tells a wild tale of love, friendship, survival, and the joy of making music in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. The Baron of My Backside is perfectly content as the leader of a traveling klezmer band, until his bandmates are brutally murdered. He sets out for Odessa alone, inconsolable even...
| Author | Dan Wickline |
| ISBN | 1600100856 |
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...
The world of the undead is a vast one, with many stories remaining to be told. In Bloodsucker Tales, Steve Niles continues the saga of 30 Days of Night with the bloody and terrifying story "Dead Billy Dead," illustrated by talented newcomer Kody Chamberlain. Matt Fraction joins in with "Juarez," introducing...
