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A young boy in his formative years begins to develop his personality in the form of his father, a strong silent type. His early years are ones of adventure and exploration. At the age of twelve, his father decides to implement some discipline and work ethic into the boy with a vivid imagination and playful…
People with disabilities, A disability is just a physical condition; it doesn’t define who we are as a person. We only have limitations. It doesn’t stop us from living a productive life, so follow your dreams. We control our destiny, and life is full of opportunities. Never tell yourself that you can’t do something because…
Memory is a funny thing. It’s random at best. Mostly we remember fragments, scattered over the years of our lives. When did your life begin? Mine – or at least my first memory – began with a box of crayons.I started out remembering my idyllic middle-class white suburban upbringing, and then, all of a sudden,…
Kelli was rushing to fall in love, and get it over with. She knew just what love was and how to get it, or so she thought. She found herself doing things she had never done before, all to get what she thought was love. Kelli went searching in all the wrong places. It was…
What happens when your dreams are shattered in two? When your world comes crumbling down and you’re forced to begin anew? Do you stay down and blame the game or embrace the flame and let the transformation take you? This is the essence of Exit The Dragon. On the surface we meet JonMac, a young…
In this story we meet our paratrooper as a boy and follow him through a troubled youth ending with the WW ll draft, the grueling training of jump school, and assignment to the European Theater. Here he becomes part of the D-Day jump at Normandy and the battles to follow in France, Holland, and Belgium….
It is said you need 10,000 hours to master a skill. For an artist, that can mean countless sketches, drawings, scribbles on the sides of restaurant napkins as you fine tune your style and discover your creative voice. With Pursuit animator Lianne Cruz (V1 Interactive, Sucker Punch Productions, Bethesda Game Studios) pulls back the curtain…
Personal biography of cartoonist Chet Pickens that includes personal drawings, pictures and other information. This book includes original newspaper funnies, drawings of posters and comic layouts.
Once upon a time, expecting parents planned the birth of their daughter just like every other family. However, circumstances unforeseen around the child’s health led to a birth unimagined. The reality felt unbelievable. The only way to understand what happened is through fairytale. A spell casted on the baby girl kept the child locked away…
A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there’s one thing that’s universally beloved: Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from…
“[Jerusalem] is a small miracle: concise, even-handed, highly particular.” —The GuardianJerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City is the acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle’s strongest work yet, a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in contemporary Jerusalem. Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of the Holy City, utilizing the classic “stranger in…
A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven…
A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023!“An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.”–Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a…
A unique insight into an acclaimed cartoonist’s travels through Europe and Morocco Riding the international success of Blankets, Craig Thompson sets out on a tour across Europe and Morocco, promoting the various European editions of his book and beginning research for his next graphic novel, Habibi. Carnet de Voyage is a gorgeous sketchbook diary of…
Who owns the story of an adoption? Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into…
The perennial graphic novel about a “hermit country,” with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the…
