Very Casual
10 best books like Very Casual (Michael DeForge): Sabrina, How To Be Happy, Safari Honeymoon, By This Shall You Know Him, Forming, Crawl Space, The Frank Book, Arsène Schrauwen, Beverly, Sunny, Vol. 1
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997408 |
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668042 |
Looking for the ultimate honeymoon experience, a newly married couple hire a guide to take them to a truly exotic location, one teeming with strange life forms and best described as an unimaginably alien version of a jungle. While the reader immediately realizes that the unfathomable flora and fauna...
By This Shall You Know Him
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0986873985 |
Artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs—whose book Even the Giants (AdHouse, 2011) marked his major publishing debut after several award-winning, self-published titles—describes his new comic work, By This Shall You Know Him, as coming “out of the darkness of oblivion.” Within the book’s...
| Author | Jesse Moynihan |
| ISBN | 1907704132 |
Since the dawn of history, we have sought to understand our existence through creationist fables of omnipotent deities and mythical creatures. Jesse Moynihan takes these fifty thousand years of socio-religious postulation and throws them in the blender to create one epic—and irreverent—battle...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668417 |
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606997300 |
In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke....
| Author | Nick Drnaso |
| ISBN | 1770462252 |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak.
A group of teenagers...
| Author | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1421555255 |
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet.What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams.
Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork...
| Author | Lilli Carré |
| ISBN | 1606995979 |
The creator of 2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon named to many annual critics lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today.
Carré’s...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770461167 |
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1683960823 |
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things....
Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It’s a laff riot! Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple...
The Lie And How We Told It
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1606997432 |
Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch. Mogg is her black cat. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphized owl. They hang out a lot with Werewolf Jones. This may sound like a pure stoner comedy, but it transcends the genre: these characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression,...
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1683962079 |
So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1606999974 |
One More Year is Simon Hanselmann’s latest Megg & Mogg collection, full of new subversive stoner comedy stories. Like the last one, Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam, One More Year is pretty decent though unfortunately doesn’t reach the heights of Megahex.
The thing is: three books in...
