V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X
7 best books like V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X (Alan Moore): Clan Apis, Why I Hate Saturn, The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories, L'Incal Lumière, Le Grand Vizir Iznogoud, Aya de Yopougon, Tome 4, New York: The Big City
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 | 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 | Mœbius |
ISBN | 1569711321 |
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...
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 | René Goscinny |
ISBN | 2205040553 |
Iznogoud!
Iznochi?
Iznogoud!
"Voglio diventare califfo al posto del califfo"
leggerete spesso questa frase.
Direttamente dagli anni '60 per voi, una lezione di fumetto umoristico,
una serie di calembour e disavventure che vi accompagneranno tra risate e
sorrisi...
Author | Marguerite Abouet |
ISBN | 2070619958 |
Les histoires de Yopougon s'exportent quand Inno, "coiffeur pour dame stylées", débarque à Paris et lance une mode de la coupe Grace Jones dans un foyer malien. Pendant ce temps en Côte d'Ivoire, Aya est harcelée par un prof de fac, le père de Félicité surgit de nulle part pour récupérer sa...
Author | Will Eisner |
ISBN | 0393328058 |
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...