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  • Freyja: An Illustrated Guide to the Goddess of Magic, Love, and War

    Freyja: An Illustrated Guide to the Goddess of Magic, Love, and War

    $19.95

    Learn more about Freyja, the revered Seid-speaker, prosperity-giver, and lady of the Slain, and explore the wyrd world of Norse mythology with this beautifully illustrated guide as your companion. This is a culturally informed introduction to Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, war, and sensuality, and one of the most highly revered figures in Nordic…

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  • The Giant: Orson Welles, the Artist and the Shadow

    The Giant: Orson Welles, the Artist and the Shadow

    $29.99

    “Gloriously unruly…an incisive look at an artist who never recovered from the success of his youth.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles. Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over…

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  • A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

    A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

    $19.95

    Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published…

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  • Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father

    Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father

    $19.99

    A graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential figures in United States history–he fought in the Revolutionary War, helped develop the Constitution, and as the first Secretary of the Treasury established landmark economic policy that we still use today. Cut…

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  • Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

    Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

    $22.99

    An acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you’ve never seen it before, with a side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the…

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  • Shock Treatment and Other Stories

    Shock Treatment and Other Stories

    $39.99

    When the Comics Code forced EC Comics to abandon its popular horror and crime titles, EC launched a “New Direction” in hopes of attracting new readers. Among the new titles were two medical dramas, M.D. and Psychoanalysis, which were competing in a rapidly changing media landscape, increasingly dominated by television. It would be more than…

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  • Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    $19.99

    Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Redbone. You’ve heard the hit song “Come and Get Your Love” in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind…

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  • Cover image for The Manga Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening: Detailed Tips for Growing 50 Types of Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs (with Over 2000 Drawings and Photos

    The Manga Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening: Detailed Tips for Growing 50 Types of Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs (with Over 2000 Drawings and Photos

    $18.99

    Make the most of your organic garden–with this playful yet wonderfully detailed guide! Manga artist and passionate home gardener Hideki Yoda illustrates the joy and simplicity of raising vegetables in your own small home garden. He covers everything from creating the rows and preparing the soils to building the trellises and keeping the pests and…

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  • Cover image for Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Volume 1

    Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 1

    $19.99

    Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 1 is the first half of Milo Manara’s two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio’s early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced…

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  • Tarot: A Graphic History: Pamela Colman Smith’s Story of Arcana, Symbols & Magic

    Tarot: A Graphic History: Pamela Colman Smith’s Story of Arcana, Symbols & Magic

    $19.99

    Discover the remarkable story behind the art that defined the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Tarot: A Graphic History brings Pamela Colman Smith’s life, creativity and mystical influences to vivid life, offering readers a deeper appreciation of the cards and the woman who created them. Pamela Colman Smith: artist, occultist, true bohemian. Her illustrations defined the…

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  • Marvel Comics Mini-Books Collectible Boxed Set: A History and Facsimiles of Marvel’s Smallest Comic Books

    Marvel Comics Mini-Books Collectible Boxed Set: A History and Facsimiles of Marvel’s Smallest Comic Books

    $29.99

    Reprinted for the first time, the world’s smallest comic books–superhero adventures originally printed by Marvel in 1966 and now enlarged to a more readable size–in a seven-book collectible boxed set In 1966, Marvel printed what the Guinness Book of World Records certified as the world’s smallest comic books. Smaller than a postage stamp, and sold…

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  • Cover image for Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

    Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

    $26.99

    A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up…

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  • Operation Legacy and Other Stories: Graphic Histories from Africa

    Operation Legacy and Other Stories: Graphic Histories from Africa

    $24.95

    A narrative of enslavement, a satire on colonialism, and a court battle for justice by those tortured and detained during the fight for independence from colonial rule, Operation Legacy presents three unique African historical narratives in comic-book form. In one, readers are offered a translation of a short story, turned into a comic, that satirizes…

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  • Maine, a Love Story

    Maine, a Love Story

    $24.95

    A gorgeous illustrated memoir about an artist finding herself and her craft in coastal Maine “Can you live in a moment?” Portland printmaker Blue Butterfield’s intimate illustrated memoir pairs personal history with her stunning woodcut prints, exploring how place shapes identity and art becomes a lifeline through loss. From her childhood on Mount Desert Island–raised…

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  • Cover image for Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods

    Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods

    $22.95

    This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist’s warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with…

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