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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…
Asserting that Coetzee’s representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters the colonial representation of the other’s body as exotic and erotic, this study inspects the ambivalence pertaining to his representation and reveals the risks that come with such contrapuntal reiteration.
In the 1960s Allison Mugler’s son Martin is diagnosed by a Chicago based award-winning clinical psychiatrist, Dr. Marak Burad as having Life Trance Dementia Syndrome (LTDS), enabling his spirit to float undetected from his body and metaphysically visit other people in the future. His Life Trance gets trapped in an enchanted 17th Century anniversary clock…
Item: VALLERO! #2 Writer: Hugo Maldonado Cover Artist: Eric Guerrero Artist: Kino Glez Fernando Valle, Leader of Los Valleros, reteams with Sue Savage to pull off the ultimate heist. After a successful mission they must find a way to unlock their stolen vault. Things don’t go according to plan as they find themselves in different…
Call Them Dusk – Night, Day and Everything in Between is a book intended for young adults aged twelve to fifteen, although it deems to be useful to anyone struggling with gender or sexual identification. When a young woman of seventeen becomes aware that she identifies as non-binary, they face many obstacles along the way….
VALLERO! follows the life of infamous outlaw, Fernando Valle. After a failed heist attempt Fernando sets out to regroup with his band of bandito brothers “Los Valleros”. Fernando encounters a great deal of adventures and misfortune but fame and riches go along with it. VALLERO! captures the magic and nostalgia of the Wild West as…
A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. This graphic edition remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature. “[A] stunning, haunting work of art…”–The New York Times Book…
How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children’s cartoon fan clubs, to today’s digitally-networked transcultural fan cultures.
The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman’s comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers a reading of Spiegelman’s comics, with a particular focus on his three…
High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women’s health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann’s graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow.Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has…
Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Frizzy and Mexikid, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang. Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But…
Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Frizzy and Mexikid, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang. Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But…
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel perfect for fans of They Called Us Enemy and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself briefly displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American…
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Fiction LiteratureWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ LiteraturePublishers Weekly Best Books of the YearSchool Library Journal Best Books of the YearA heartwarming young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in…
In Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Dan Wetzel tells the inspiring, electrifying story of the NBA superstar, beginning a new series of sports biographies for young readers! Featuring comic-style illustrations by Zeke Peña! When you think of Stephen Curry, one word comes to mind: greatness. From shooting three-pointers with laser precision…
New York Times-bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega and star debut artist Rose Bousamra’s Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl whose greatest enemy is the hair salon! Through her struggles and triumphs, this heartwarming graphic novel shows the radical power of accepting yourself as you are, frizzy curls and all. Marlene loves three things:…
