The author reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics-obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son. ...
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel ...
In a mid-twenty-first-century nation devastated by civil war, botanist professor Paulie Panther researches a strange plant at the high school of an experimental forest town and discovers its telepathic properties, a finding that singles him out as a brash individualist in a community of conformists....
"Chicken with Plums is a feast you'll devour." -- Newsweek Acclaimed graphic artist Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature humor and insight, her keen eye and ear, to the heartrending story of a celebrated Iranian musician who gives up his life for music and love. When Nasser Al...
The rabbi's talking cat joins the rabbi's cousins, Malka of the Lions and the sheik, as well as a misplaced Russian painter and a young reporter named Tintin, on a fantastic journey into the heart of Africa in search of an African Jerusalem, in a second humorous collection of adventures that take hi...
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. ...
The creator of Jimmy Corrigan presents a collection of both new and previously published material featuring such colorful characters as Jimmy Corrigan, Rocket Sam, Quimby the mouse, the Super-man, Sparky the cat, Big Tex, and Rusty Brown, a young suburban Chicago outcast and toy collector. 50,000 fi...
Seattle teenagers of the 1970s are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that spreads only through sexual contact. ...
Collects a two-part graphic memoir, in which the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. ...
When Doug wakes up not knowing where he is, his beloved, and possibly dead, cat Inky climbs through a hole in the wall and beckons him to follow, marking the beginning of a mysterious journey through fractured, but apparently related, realities. ...
Gaining the ability to speak after swallowing a parakeet, the rabbi's cat uses his newfound talent to tell lies, the consequences of which lead to being banned from contact with the rabbi's daughter and an education in the Torah. ...
Celebrates the talents of DC Comics artist Alex Ross in a collection of his drawings, never-before-seen sketches, limited edition prints, and other artwork, all reproduced in full color, accompanied by a study of Ross's creative process, a new Superman-Batman story, and a new Robin origin story. Rep...
Offers reproductions of more than five hundred comic strips, pieces from sketchbooks, early prototype drawings for "Peanuts," and selections from Schulz's first cartoon feature, accompanied by commentary on the cartoonist's life and art. ...
A trio of stories focuses on the complexities of modern life as experienced by the baby boomers, who have discovered that not everything turns out the way they had expected. ...
Uses graphic novel format to depict the events of Hurricane Katrina though six true stories of New Orleanians who survived the storm, including Denise, who experienced the chaos of the Superdome, and a doctor whose French Quarter home was unscathed. ...
Your company wants you to be loyal. You should feel luckyyes'>#8211;after all, your job is a privilege (think of all those who would like to have it). And you know (despite what youyes'>#8217;ve read about Enron and WorldCom) that management has your best interests at heart. Your goal is to devote y...
A New Yorker contributor and co-founder of RAW traces the creative process that went into his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, revealing the inspirations for his work while providing on an accompanying DVD a reference copy of The Complete Maus and audio interviews with his father. ...
A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull --now in one volume. The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, night...