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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR – A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force “Virtuosic . . . refreshing . . . Every element seems packed with…
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…
The A Word provides a feminist perspective on the history of abortion, working to end the taboos that surround this procedure–and the word itself.The A Word champions the women advocating for free and legal access to the seventy-three million abortions performed around the world every year, more than half of which require women to resort…
From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment. As a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling–with its heroic babyfaces and villainous heels performing suplexes and powerbombs in pursuit of championship…
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…
“A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him–now with a new afterword. Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman…
Eerie Publications’ horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America’s newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them. The Weird of World of Eerie Publications introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher…
Speechless is a never-before-attempted work of cartoon ingenuity, condensing the whole of world history into a graphic and completely wordless narrative. Through this very simple, yet intriguing concept, the reader will experience the intensely real but often ignored political and environmental truths of our era. It’s funny, poignant, and painfully true. Tracking everything from the…
Memorias de un facha es un breve relato de novela histórica en el que se narra el desmoronamiento de una familia que representa el núcleo duro de la falange en el medio rural español durante la guerra civil. Forjada a las ascuas del régimen franquista que se encuentra ya en una decadencia de valores morales…
Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties-encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that-as Linda Hutcheon has put it-both “enshrine and…
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that-as Linda Hutcheon has put it-both “enshrine and…
Before electricity, automation, and machines, entire cities depended on human hands. Vanished Trades is a black-and-white graphic novel that brings to life the forgotten jobs that built the modern world-ice harvesters, switchboard operators, lamplighters, coal stokers, water carriers, and more. Through atmospheric illustrations and brief narration, each chapter captures a single trade at work, its…
Step back into the heart of 19th-century Britain with this meticulously prepared print edition of “Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 37, September 29 to October 31, 1832”. This unique volume offers an authentic window into the past, providing a direct glimpse into the intellectual…
“The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful” stands as a foundational text in the history of English periodicals. This essential volume offers a direct portal into the intellectual and social landscape of the 19th century. As a pioneering effort in popular education, the magazine was a key initiative of the celebrated…
Step back into the vibrant intellectual landscape of the Victorian era with this meticulously prepared print edition of “The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful”. As a foundational example of English periodicals, this popular magazine played a pivotal role in the widespread dissemination of useful knowledge and educational content to a…
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