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This was the last day I prayed. A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, Good Girls Go to Hell depicts the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions–and sometimes violent conflict. From political protests to personal struggles with school, body image, and relationships with family and friends, Tohar Sherman-Friedman’s…
Marriage doesn’t define a relationship. Unless you want it to. In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage the law of the…
This is your brain on comics. Sure, he’s ugly–but such talent! The human brain is the most complex structure in the universe. It’s as awe-inspiring as it is intimidating, when you’re not an expert. So how can we get to know the brain? By asking him to introduce himself, of course! In BrainComix, the brain…
A graphic novel, with a modern take on the mysterious and ancient Emerald Tablet, and the sayings imprinted on it, combined with textual explorations of the Hermetic tradition and alchemy.
–Selected for the In the Margins Book Awards 2024 Nonfiction Recommendation List “With his latest work of graphic nonfiction, Chuck D uses his art and hip-hop rhymes to show how the US has been held hostage by gun violence and a growing sense of hopelessness . . . A focused, fresh, urgent text filled with…
The last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us: This book tells the stories of six courageous Japanese American soldiers from the Pacific Northwest who volunteered to fight in the combined 442nd Regimental Combat Team with the 100th Infantry…
As a child, you never wondered about the bionics of the comics featuring Little Audrey, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Sad Sack, Herman and Katnip, Mutt and Jeff, Richie Rich, Little Dot, The Black Cat, Stumbo the Giant, and Little Lotta. Now, the story behind their glory reverberates with renewed discoveries by author Mark…
An incredibly fun-and necessary!-deep dive into one of American comics’ most important, influential, and underappreciated artistic dynasties” –Fred Van Lente, six-time New York Times bestselling author, The Comic Book History of Comics FATHER AND SON ISSUES: The Secret History of Spider-Man is the true story of someone with a great power, and a great responsibility….
“…often remarkably judicious.” That’s what Peter Davison, the editor of George Orwell’s Complete Works, said in 1998 about these authors, Orwell for Beginners, contained in this volume No twentieth-century writer remains more vividly etched in the public imagination than George Orwell, thanks to Animal Farm and the unforgettable Nineteen Eighty-Four– and thanks, as well, to…
Discover the pioneering new comic from transgender cartoonist Erin Nations! Called by critics “funny, sincere, and just generally brilliant,” Gumballs is a one-man variety show spanning graphic memoir, observational comedy, razor-sharp character studies, and so much more. Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin’s gender transition, anecdotal true tales of growing…
A comedic life lesson about how to break a leg on Broadway–literally–by Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS. In the midst of the unprecedented success of Brian Michael Bendis’s character-defining run writing Ultimate Spider-Man, and the box office record-breaking Spider-Man films, the writer…
An ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters. From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth. In Blue Book, teaming with artist…
Chester Arthur was considered the most corrupt party machine politician of his time. He was never elected President, but only assumed the role after President Garfield was assassinated. And yet, once there, he tried to fight patronage, racism, and xenophobia. Follow author Harry Goldhagen as he retraces the steps of this little remembered, most elegant…
The mythical story of Max Gold, begins in the early sixties against the background of various progressive political movements, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, the war in Viet Nam and the growing movement that spread nation wide on college campuse, the Brotherhood of Smoke, cannabis smoke that is. And Max was at the proverbial right place…
In 13th-century Japan, disease, famine, violence, and natural disasters plague society. Samurai lords, blinded by power, shirk any responsibility to protect the citizenry. Religious leaders care more about currying favor with the powerful than helping common people find hope and a positive way to deal with their suffering. But one unknown Buddhist monk dares to…
“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”–Angela Y. Davis, from the foreword Herbert Marcuse was one of the twentieth century’s most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity philosopher. In the 1960s, his argument for a “principled utopianism” catalyzed the idealism of a rebellious generation, and Marcuse became…
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