You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
10 best books like You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack (Tom Gauld): How To Be Happy, Hot Dog Taste Test, Grass, Safari Honeymoon, Sugar Skull, Displacement: A Travelogue, Never Learn Anything From History, By This Shall You Know Him, Dockwood, My Dirty Dumb Eyes
| 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 | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770462376 |
The new book from the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and designer/producer of Netflix’s Bojack Horseman
Lisa Hanawalt's debut graphic novel, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, achieved instant and widespread acclaim: reviews in the New York Times and NPR, Best of Year nods from the Washington...
| Author | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim |
| ISBN | 1770463623 |
This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s lives
Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World...
| 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...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907902 |
Gorgeous, Obsessive, Nightmarish
Charles Burns’ X'ed Out-The Hive-Sugar Skull Trilogy feels to me like an amalgam of all my personal obsessions, which in itself is a little scary: thick, clean, stripped-down lines – check; lots of soothing black ink – check; a fragmented narrative...
Displacement: A Travelogue
| Author | Lucy Knisley |
| ISBN | 1606998102 |
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
Never Learn Anything From History
A collection of historical comics by webcomics artist Kate Beaton. First pressing, limited to 1000.
From publisher Topatoco.com:
"When Kate Beaton was first asked to make a book, she said "ok, but I only have about five comics on my website, gimme a while." Now the time has come! This...
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 | Jon McNaught |
| ISBN | 1907704264 |
"McNaught's comics are slow, quiet and very sensitive to place and time. The work is certainly poetic but not precious or twee. And the drawings are beautiful. Masterful stuff for someone so young."—Seth, author of Wimbledon Green and George Sprott: 1894�1975 in Time
Dockwood is a small...
| 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 | Manuele Fior |
| ISBN | 8876181717 |
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book.
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| Author | Julia Gfrörer |
| ISBN | 1606997173 |
Black Is the Color begins with a 17th-century sailor abandoned at sea by his shipmates, and as it progresses he endures, and eventually succumbs to, both his lingering death sentence and the advances of a cruel and amorous mermaid. The narrative also explores the experiences of the loved ones he leaves...
| Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
| ISBN | 1683962060 |
Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something...
The Little World of Liz Climo
| Author | Liz Climo |
| ISBN | 0762452382 |
Welcome to Liz Climo's world!
Artist Liz Climo has created a charmingly quirky animal kingdom, a place where grizzly bears, porcupines, rabbits, and anteaters all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Through her comics, we make unexpected yet wise discoveries: how armadillos...
| Author | Fabcaro |
| ISBN | 2413008039 |
Que fait un bébé éléphant dans la salade ? Quels sont les ingrédients pour s'assurer un horrible voyage en TGV ? L'Inde ou le Yémen, quel pays visiter pour pouvoir mieux frimer ? On découvre sous un angle inédit, à la sauce Fabcaro, la rentrée littéraire, la rentrée sociale, l'alimentation...
| Author | Julia Gfrörer |
| ISBN | 1606999710 |
In a plague-ravaged medieval city, survival is a harsher fate than death. As corpses accumulate around her, Agnès, a young widow possessed of supernatural strength, must weigh her obligations to the dead and dying against her desire to protect what little remains. Laid Waste is a graphic novella...
Le jour le plus long du futur
| Author | Lucas Varela |
| ISBN | 2756063444 |
Dans une ville futuriste, un robot et un employé de bureau sans histoire vont voir leur existence chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un étranger portant une mystérieuse valise. Cette dernière donne accès à une étonnante pièce permettant la matérialisation des désirs inconscients. Des désirs...
| Author | Shinsuke Yoshitake |
| ISBN | 4591154440 |
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