Author : Joe Ciardiello
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1683962273
In this gorgeous graphic memoir, Joe Ciardiello gracefully weaves together his Italian family history and the mythology of the American West while paying homage to the classic movie and TV Westerns. Featuring John Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sophia Loren, and many more, this book is a paean to Hollywood and a love letter to the Western.
Author : William Shaw
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316246891
The earthshaking decade of the 1960s comes to a sweeping and dangerous close, as William Shaw's detective duo battle the most powerful members of London society. After being wounded in the line of duty, Detective Sergeant Breen recuperates on the family farm of his former partner, Helen Tozer. To fill the long and empty hours, he reviews the open case file for a murder that has haunted Helen for years: that of her younger sister. Breen discovers that the teenage victim had been having a secret affair with James Fletchet, the son of an affluent local landowner, celebrated for his service in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising. Breen and Tozer return to London's Criminal Investigation Division, where their questions about Fletchet's past are met with resistance and suspicion. The deeper they probe, the more people they implicate in their investigation. New Scotland Yard doesn't look kindly upon breaking rank, and it's only a matter of time before Breen and Tozer make themselves a target. Shaw's stirring, heartfelt and diabolically plotted mystery series is everything a reader looks for: enveloping, invigorating, and wonderfully entertaining.
Author : Frank Santoro
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681374048
A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of Storeyville and Pompeii. Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other—despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book. Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents’ courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic—from his childhood mishaps to his father’s trauma in Vietnam—interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel. Santoro, the acclaimed author of Storeyville and Pompeii, has created his masterpiece. Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same.
Author : Alexa Kitchen
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423113317
Dumb parents, little brothers, gigantic messes, and homework--this is the plight of young readers everywhere. And, until now, it had not been expressed by someone so close to the source. /DIV DIVTen-year-old Alexa Kitchen may have an unusual talent--she is the world's youngest comics artist--but she really is just like many girls her age. Just trying to get by in a world that seems determined to undermine her at every turn. Luckily she's got a way with a pen and a good sense of humor. This collection of funny, insightful cartoons based on the real-life trials of many families will resonate with young readers everywhere.
Author : Jody Duncan Jesser
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1613124147
Behind the scenes—and the mask—of the great Batman film trilogy, including stunning illustrations. In 2005, director Christopher Nolan reimagined and forever redefined the Batman legend when he began his epic trilogy of films—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader in a fresh, dynamic reboot of the franchise. All three films would go on to blockbuster success and critical acclaim—including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger’s unforgettable performance as Batman’s eternal nemesis, the Joker. The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy tells the complete story of these three monumental films. Based on in-depth interviews with Nolan and all of the films’ key cast and crew—including cowriters David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan, cinematographer Wally Pfister, and more—the book reveals the creative process behind the epic Dark Knight Trilogy, supported by lavish art and on and off-set photos. This is a fascinating glimpse into the minds that gave new life to one of the most beloved and renowned superheroes in history.
Author : Wendy Ashby
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Megan Kelso
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2006-07-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1560977469
Kelso's work is characterized by subject matter that fits roughly into two disparate camps: personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of her childhood and adolescence, and stories about the idea of America and American history, such as a trilogy of short pieces about Alexander Hamilton. Her work is distinguished from many of her contemporaries as much by her spare, elegant, calligraphic linework, leisurely pacing, and psychological acuity as it is by the absence of nihilism, scatology, pedantry, and formal experimentalism. Her work is charming, witty, nuanced, slightly elusive, and sharply observed. The Squirrel Mother features 15 stories of between three and twenty-two pages in full color, including two stories, "Meow Face" and "Aide de Camp," done especially for this volume. The personal stories are each self-contained but in a sense take place in the same world where similar characters inhabit different stories. The "America" stories are broader in subject matter, taking on events of political and historical significance and wrestling with ideas having to do with the American experience.
Author : Ariel Schrag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416552316
Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then photocopy and sell around school. Some friends thrilled to see themselves in the comic, others not so much, but everyone was interested. Awkward chronicles Ariel's freshman year, and Definition, her sophomore year. With anxiety in excess and frustration to the fullest, Ariel dives in -- meeting new people, going to concerts, crushing out, loving chemistry, drawing comics, and obsessing over everything from glitter-laden girls to ionic charges and the constant pursuit of the number-one score. Totally true and achingly honest, with every cringe-inducing encounter and exhilarating first moment documented -- Awkward and Definition is an unflinching look at what it's like being a teenage girl in America.
Author : Justin Borus
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781595800152
Treats readers to an honest, humorous and in-depth look at the events and circumstances that confront singles in their everyday lives. This smorgasbord of dating and relationship advice features charts, graphs, and pithy text boxes containing humorous bylaws, not-so-obvious truisms, and sports-influenced strategies. The book covers the whole cycle of a relationship, from Getting the Night Started and Scouting the Prospects to First Dates and Going All the Way to The Serious Relationship and Getting Out of the Game (i.e. getting married). Fans of the strip and new readers alike will love this irreverent guide to all that is girls . . . and sports.
Author : George O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596434317
Tells the story of Zeus and his battle with his father, Kronos, and the Titans. In graphic novel format.
