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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…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…
This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…
This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…
A charming burlesque concerning an intrepid voyage of epic proportions by the “incredibly sophisticated . . . stylish and inventive” Edward Gorey (New York Observer). Now available in a special gift edition.
Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika’s then four-year-old son, this…
A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes. Today it is…
A beautiful graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes. Today it…
The contributors to this volume elaborate how manga and by extension graphic art rewrites, reinvents and re-imagines the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar/contemporary Japan.
From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring the class divide, childhood labor, family, and our globalized world–all centered on Wisconsin’s ginseng farming industry “Ginseng Roots is Thompson’s most visually arresting work so far.” —New York Times Book Review “A sweeping story, gorgeously drawn and beautifully told — this…
WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE – Available for the first time in English: a moving and masterful graphic memoir exploring one woman’s search for identity as she slowly uncovers the truth of how her Jewish relatives “disappeared” during World War II. Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember…
From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the ’60s, up until the early ’80s–the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group’s Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics’ Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the ’40s, such as EC’s infamous and…
This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight essays provide historical and contemporary examinations of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The collection benefits from hundreds of interviews with…
For military cartoonists the absurdity of war inspires a laugh-or-cry response and provides an endless source of un-funny amusement. Cartoons by hundreds of artists-at-arms from more than a dozen countries and spanning two centuries are included in this study–the first to consider such a broad range of military comics. War and military life are examined…
The Journal of Comics and Culture studies the comic and graphic novel in conjunction with its impact in and response to popular culture. This journal analyzes and illustrates the growing talents in the field of comics, as well as comics’ origins, impacts, and reflections on American culture as a whole. The premiere volume of The…
