The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
$19.95A “documentary comic book” from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America.
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The Trojan Horse: A Modern Graphic Greek Myth
$9.99The Greek goddesses can be competitive–especially when it comes to being “the fairest.” When Aphrodite, the goddess of love, wins the title, it kicks off a ten-year battle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Find out who comes out on top–and how the Trojan horse came to be–in this modern, graphic retelling of a classic…
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The Day the Klan Came to Town
$16.95The year is 1923. The Ku Klux Klan is at the height of its power in the US as membership swells into the millions and they expand beyond their original southern borders. As they grow, so do their targets. As they continue their campaigns of terror against African Americans, their list now includes Catholics and…
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The Hero Twins: Against the Lords of Death [A Mayan Myth]
$10.99Can two young boys outsmart and outwit the lords of death? The Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, were blessed by the Mayan gods with special powers. But their incredible skill at playing Pok-ta-Pok, the Mayan ball game, angers the lords of Xibalba, rulers of the land of the dead. When the lords challenge them to…
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Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes
$19.99From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base that continues to run in the millions. This critical analysis of Calvin…
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12 Rules for Strife
$20.00This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don’t need to wait for a leader or savior. We don’t need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a…
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The Supergirls: Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines (Revised and Updated)
$16.95“Mike Madrid is doing God’s work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure.” —ComicsAlliance “Sharp and lively . . . [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he’s enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society’s ever-changing…
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Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight (2nd Edition)
$36.99This updated edition of Dr. Travis Langley’s beloved Batman and Psychology takes readers into the psyches of Batman and the characters of Gotham City-exploring what makes them tick, and why they have fascinated fans for decades.
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History Tipsters Break Down the U.S. Constitution: The Inside Scoop on Our Founding Document
$36.65The history of the United States goes back hundreds of years. In that time, the country has changed and grown a great deal. But it all began with one document. Follow historical figures in this graphic novel as they break down the U.S. Constitution and get the juiciest tips on how the document–and the nation–has…
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History Tipsters Sneak Into the Oval Office: The Inside Scoop on the U.S. Presidency
$36.65Peek inside the most important office in the country! Today, the president of the United States is one of the most powerful people in the world, but before America was a country, ruling royalty was the norm. Let the U.S. presidents of the past and present lead you through the history of their office and…
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Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend: A Toon Graphic
$17.99Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy? Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of corporate marketing by a highly industrialized commercial enterprise. Cartoonist NOAH VAN SCIVER shows us the myth creation as real life…
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Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel
$31.99From a prize-winning journalist and the co-author of the best-selling Zahra’s Paradise, a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from 9/11 to the latest drone strike 9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original…
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head
$23.95Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel’s dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation…
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Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine
$99.00Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine follows A. David Lewis’s unique scholarly journey through graphic religion and graphic medicine, exploring how comics intersect with healthcare, clinical practice, spirituality, patient experience, and belief. Drawing on more than two decades of academic research, Lewis reframes both fields through the distinct narrative and visual language…
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Chris Claremont
$20.00Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film…
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Gender: A Graphic Guide
$19.95‘An outstanding work’ – CN Lester, author of Trans Like Me Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (‘Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender’ VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity ‘toxic’? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available…