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Maria Kvilhuag, known scholar and writer of many non-fiction and fiction titles, reveals her incredible ability to illustrate The Gylfaginning, a story contained in the Prose Edda. Maria’s art weaves the story of King Gylfi as he questions three men (High, Just-As-High, and Third) on the history and lore of the Gods. The story explains…
Dracula –both the legendary blood-thirsty vampire and his historic inspiration, Vlad The Impaler– has terrified and fascinated the world via a myriad of films and books ever since Bram Stoker’s original 1897 novel. Tales of the vampiric Prince of Darkness have been adapted to every format including a number of graphic novels. But just as…
Passionate love, marriage and sexual desire intertwine in this ancient poem by the renowned King Solomon. This graphic novel includes every word of this scripture, chapter and verse, and is visualized within its historical, cultural and geographical context. While there is no nudity, the adult themes give an advisory rating of 12+. The central character…
A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Faithful to the original text while providing a new lavish rendition. When three witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions lead to an ever-growing path of murder…
THE ART OF MASAMUNE SHIROW VOLUME 1: MANGA by Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a study of the art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanuri Ota, b. 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the…
An informative and funny deconstruction of how the giants of American capitalism shape our worldIn Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, Darryl Cunningham offers an illuminating analysis of the origins and ideological evolutions of four key players in the American private sector–Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and oil…
“Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentation. It’s resonating with her thousands of Instagram followers.”–Robert Ito, The New York Times“The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real… The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about…
APPEARED ON BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS FROM NPR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, BOOKLIST, AND MORE The cartoonist of This One Summer and SuperMutant Magic Academy explores the virtual and IRL world of contemporary women via a lens both surreal and wry Jenny becomes obsessed with a strange “mirror Facebook,” which presents an alternate,…
Seamlessly blending sex, body horror, isolation, and violence with humor, color, and a seductive sense of design and composition (or, as the artist puts it, “love, gags, shit, holes, crashes, and bodies”), Cutting Season is a tour-de-force of distorted romantic abstraction: an unnerving and sustained howl, in comics form, that demands attention like a raw,…
In this early epic of the hilarious and politically correct Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Freewheelin’ Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy skip out on their rent and decide to cool it down Mexico way where they are chased off the beach, encounter a Mexican mystic, lose all their money, get thrown into jail, escape into an…
Marco and Stella’s lukewarm, aspiring yuppie romance was already on the ropes when they meet Lulu, an older, working-class ice cream server with a kid and a shady past. But when Marco develops an interest in her that soon veers into obsession, it awakens in him a problematic and dormant sexuality. With a voyeuristic gaze,…
Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which…
2023 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction 2022 LA Times Book Prize WINNER, Graphic Novel/Comics 2022 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Honor Book In this graphic novel, Charlene is a divorced mom, has a young son named Brandon, and works full-time as a nurse while also caring for her infirm father. She is barely holding their…
Palestinian political cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained renown worldwide for his stark black-and-white drawings that express the numerous abuses and losses that his countrymen suffer under Israel’s occupation and celebrate their popular resistance. This collection includes 180 of Sabaaneh’s best cartoons, including some depicting the privations he and other Palestinian political prisoners have suffered in…
On a small isolated island run by ruthless gangs and powerful crime families lies a town of brothels and drug dens, serving all who come into port. Sold into a life of servitude when he was young, Amon is now approaching the end of his usefulness to the Madame. With no hope of escape and…
Book 4 charts the rise of Dr. Dre and Def Jam records, and introduces new branches on the “tree” Will Smith, Salt-N-Pepa, Rakim, and Biz Markie. This volume is also jam-packed with films Hollywood released in an attempt to cash in on the phenomenon, like Breakin’, Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo, Beat Street, Krush Groove and…
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