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  • The Best American Essays

    The Best American Essays

    $21.95

    Here is another “splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays” (“Booklist”) chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand. “The Best American Essays” once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind.

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  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading

    The Best American Nonrequired Reading

    $21.95

    The debut last year of this newest addition to the Best American series was an instant hit with readers of all ages. Eggers will be editing the volume annually, choosing the finest, most interesting, and least expected fiction, nonfiction, humor, alternative comics, and more.

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    Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition

    $29.95

    The first book-length study to address Moore’s significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. The essays collected here identify the Gothic tradition as perhaps the most significant cultural context for understanding Moore’s work,…

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  • Cover image for The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image

    The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image

    $32.95

    The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the return of the repressed violence of colonialism, or the embodiment of a culture obsessed with consumerism….

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  • The American Bystander #29

    The American Bystander #29

    $25.00

    The American Bystander is back, and funnier than ever! America’s best classic print humor magazine comes roaring with writing and comics from Jules Feiffer, Larry Doyle, and a boatload of other people you know and love from The New Yorker, The Simpsons, Letterman, and every other comedy institution of the last fifty years.

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  • Miles Morales: Across the Spider-Myth

    Miles Morales: Across the Spider-Myth

    $17.00

    Miles Morales: Across the Spider-Myth is an exploration focusing on Miles Morales, the history of the Spider-Verse, and the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. In these pages, you’ll find a summary of Miles’ full publication history; his trajectory both within and beyond the panels; his contributions to Spider-Man’s legacy; the creation and development of the…

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  • خارج الصندوق

    خارج الصندوق

    $16.99

    هل سئمت من رؤية العالم عبر نافذة واحدة، زجاجها مُعتّم بما اعتادته العين والذاكرة؟ خارج الصندوق ليس مجرد كتاب هزلي أو مجموعة رسومات عابرة. إنه صرخة مدوّية، مُغلّفة بابتسامة ساخرة وريشة فنان قرر أن يمزق ستار التواطؤ والصمت. إنه دعوة جريئة لتنحي عقلك عن مقعد المشاهدة، والنزول إلى ساحة الفكر والجدل العميق. هنا، ستجد الأحداث…

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  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018

    The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018

    $15.99

    Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this…

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  • Cover image for journal d'une cause perdue: la fin des accents des lettres capitales et de la ponctuation sous toutes leurs formes

    journal d’une cause perdue: la fin des accents des lettres capitales et de la ponctuation sous toutes leurs formes

    $11.50

    dans la guerre qui oppose mickael korvin aux accents ponctuations et autres lettres capitales il n y a pas de blesses, pas de prisonniers que des fatalites ceci est le recit de la resistance desesperee d un homme seul et d un seul homme sur le sentier etroit qui mene a l heroisme

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    gobshite quarterly #29/30: your rosetta stone for the new world order

    $10.00

    contemporary poems from croatia, russia, and lithuania; croatian underground comic; political commentary from barcelona on the current situation in catalonia; film commentary on sophia coppola’s films from barcelona; underground comic from brasil; bricolage from belgium/serbia; american essays on flirting, & murder

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  • Comics and the U.S. South

    Comics and the U.S. South

    $35.00

    A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed southern ways of life Contributions from Tim Caron, Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins, Conseula Francis, Anthony Dyer Hoefer, M. Thomas Inge, Nicolas Labarre, Alison Mandaville, Gary Richards, Joseph Michael Sommers, Christopher Whitby, and Qiana J. Whitted Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment…

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  • Cover image for Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

    Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment

    $67.95

    This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the cross-disciplinary aspects of comics. Some of the chapters examine the use of Wonder Woman during World War II,…

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  • Cover image for Make Your Comic Book, Pronto!: The No-Nonsense Guide to Self-Publishing

    Make Your Comic Book, Pronto!: The No-Nonsense Guide to Self-Publishing

    $10.99

    This book will take you from concept to comic book in a series of easy-to-follow steps. It contains practical, real-world advice based on over ten years of experience. You will learn how to craft a marketable concept, write a winning script, find that perfect artist and add the finishing touches. Make Your Comic Book, Pronto!…

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    Booom oder Bennys kleine Facebook Welt 2: Von Irrungen & Wirrungen in Facebook

    $42.93

    Die Fortsetzung von Boom oder bennys kleine Facebook Welt Zynisch, satirisch und humoristisch reflektiert der Newcomer Autor Benjamin Schwer die Facebook Welt. Zynisch satirisch kommentiert vom Erfolgsbuchautor der Buchreihen. (Hilfe mein Kind kommt in die Pubertät) (Im Dschungel der Justiz) (Eine gescheiterte Existenz Christian Lukas-Altenburg….

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  • Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life

    Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life: Neil Gaiman!! Jodi Picoult!! Brad Meltzer!! . . . and an All-Star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Th

    $36.00

    An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors’ relationships to their favorite superheroes; including stories from Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Joe Lansdale and more! As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP,…

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  • Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law

    Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law

    $249.99

    Establishing the medium of graphic fiction as a critical resource for interdisciplinary legal studies, this collection is the first to address the intersection of comics and law. Graphic fiction has gained enormous cultural capital and academic interest over recent years. Whether in their representations of lawyers and the legal system, their dystopian imaginations, their treatment…

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