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A fascinating field guide to Philippine monsters and mythology! From award-winning authors Budgette Tan and David Hontiveros comes The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo –a 19th-century cryptozoologist’s account of his encounters with the strange and magical creatures from Philippine legends and mythology. In this book, you’ll come face-to-face with 36 mythical beasts including: The Kapre:…
More than just a Japan travel guide, Manabeshima Island Japan paints a colorful and entertaining picture of a particular place and time in Japan. Japan is made up of thousands of sacred islands, artificial islands, industrial islands, resort islands, wild islands and exploding islands…but artist Florent Chavouet had only ever visited two of them. This…
How to train a Filipino dragon and other real-life adventures of three modern monster hunters! Since The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo was published, other creature hunters have come out of the woodwork to share their spine-tingling accounts of more discoveries. True? Exaggerated? Out-and-out lies? Read on and decide for yourself! The Black Bestiary adds…
An intrepid detective tracks a girl lost amidst Manila’s many temptations. Can he crack the case and find the girl before the city erupts into violence? Muros is an urban fantasy set in an alternate Manila which has been sealed off from the rest of the world for decades. In this fast-paced graphic novel the…
Experience Tokyo Through the Eyes of an Artist! Tokyo Travel Sketchbook captures illustrator Amaia Arrazolas four-week adventure in Tokyo, offering a unique glimpse into the city through her eyes. When Arrazola embarks on an artists residency in Tokyo, she dives into the city’s vibrant culture with her paints and pencils. The result is a delightful…
Discover Japan in 100 Words! This book captures the essence of Japanese life and culture through 100 carefully selected words. From familiar concepts like zen, kawaii, and anime to lesser-known gems, “Japan in 100 Words” covers it all. What You’ll Learn About: Chochin: Decorative lanterns seen everywhere from shrines and temples to izakaya Fugu: The…
Bad guys tremble at the sound of his name! Meet Melvin Beederman. He’s a pretty good superhero, even though it always takes him five or six tries to get launched and flying. His weakness (every superhero has one) is bologna, which makes it hard to go into a deli. Still, Melvin manages to keep the…
Bad guys tremble at the sound of his name! From: grateful@fred.comTo: melvin@beederman.com Dear Melvin, We need your help. Someone has been sending us threatening letters. We don’t know who it is. Please come to our concert tonight, just in case.Sincerely, Fred of The Grateful Fred Someone is out to get the Grateful Fred, Melvin Beederman’s…
Is Melvin Beederman DOOMED? Mysterious threatening e-mails, a sad sidekick, and . . . country music? Melvin Beederman and his partner in uncrime, Candace, are really in trouble. Once again someone is out to get them, and this time not even the Superhero’s Code can save Melvin from a terrible bologna-filled plight. Candace alone can…
The three members of the Bad Guy Brotherhood have broken out of jail, and now they’re coming after the superhero who put them there: Melvin Beederman! Goofball McCluskey, Max the Wonder Thug, and Calamity Wayne are building a time machine so they can get Melvin before he ever became a superhero. Can Melvin and Candace…
Ridenhour Book Prize WinnerEisner Award Winner for Nonfiction “Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own.”–Los Angeles Times From one of the leading cartoonists of our time comes an ambitious and timely historical…
In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Pekar’s mother was a Zionist by way of politics, his father by way of faith, and he inevitably…
A graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures–a war lost on the home front although never truly lost on the…
Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twentieth century, and in Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, the renowned comic artist Rick Geary uses his distinct style to…
Page by Paige is a coming-of-age graphic novel by Laura Lee Gulledge, the story of a teenage girl trying to find herself after moving to a new home. Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she’s having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook,…
In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell. González argues that a constrained conception of the possibilities of storytelling by and about Latinos diminishes the development and progression of…
