Author : Gustave Verbeek
Publisher : Sunday Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780976888574
GRAPHIC NOVEL. The complete run of Gustave Verbeek's most famous creation, The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, and his Loony Lyrics of Lulu and Adventures of the Tiny Tads. With comics and illustrations from Verbeek's curious and varied career. Foreword by Martin Gardner. The book includes a free set of 12 Tiny Tads postcards: replicas from the 1907 series created by Verbeek.
Author : Nathan Cowdry
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683964322
Crash Site, the debut graphic novel from British cartoonist Nathan Cowdry, is the story of Rosie, a young drug trafficker who uses her lovelorn talking dog, Denton, to mule drugs across international lines. When Rosie and Denton’s return flight to England goes down and they find themselves stranded in the Amazon basin (with fifty grand worth of coke in Denton’s stomach), well, getting busted becomes the least of their concerns as they try to find their way out. Did we mention that Rosie is also wearing a pair of anthropomorphic underwear she calls Pants Dude, and that he may have other plans for her and Denton? Crash Site is a darkly funny, character-driven graphic novel that calls to mind the sense of humor of Simon Hanselmann, with a Tarantino-level appetite for gratuitous acts of sex and violence and use of flashbacks to allow the story to unfold. Cowdry’s confident storytelling skills, attractive artwork, and sense of comedic timing makes Crash Site a winning recipe for fans of adult humor.
Author : Kevin Mutch
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683962842
Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Kevin Mutch skewers theory-spouting academics, sleazy art dealers, and obnoxious over-sharers. In this graphic novel, Adam Kline is an aspiring digital artist stuck in a thankless university adjunct position, married to an ambitious woman sick of supporting his pipe dreams, and is completely ignored by the New York art scene. Miraculously, though, his fortunes seem to be turning around. However, there's just one problem ― his mysterious medical condition keeps blacking him out at the most inopportune times, and slowly blurs his perceptions of reality and fantasy… And, if that wasn't enough, he has to content with eerie, pitch-black void, flesh-eating zombies, and a vast, secret network of bug-eyed, bald-headed aliens.
Author : Burkard Polster
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Optical illusions in art
ISBN : 1402757980
Ambigrams are words that are written or drawn so that they can be read in more than one way, back to front, upside down, turned this way and that.
Author : Gipi
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683963199
Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), One Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.
Author : Nina Bunjevac
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683962095
The author’s jumping-off point is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of Artemis’s virgin cohorts. Bunjevac’s retelling follows Benny, a sexually deviant man who, coming across an alluring former classmate, concocts an elaborate, disturbing rape fantasy. Inked in her lush, stippled, illustrative style, Bunjevac crafts a gripping, noirish, Nabokovian tale, by turns surreal and harrowing, that turns the male gaze inside-out. Bezimena is both a radical examination of the misconceptions surrounding rape culture and an artistic and psychological tour de force.
Author : Rikke Villadsen
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683961498
Told in expressive pencil drawings, provocative symbolism, and a madness that doesn’t just bubble beneath the surface of the water, but drenches the sailor―and the reader―like a tidal wave, this story is about a man, literally and figuratively, lost at sea.
Author : Joshua Cotter
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1606999117
Nod Away is set on a near-future version of earth. A deep space transport has been developed to take a small crew to an earth-like, habitable planet in a nearby system in an attempt to begin colonization/repopulation. The internet is now telepathic and referred to as the “innernet.” When the hub is revealed to be a human child, Melody McCabe is hired to develop the new nexus on the second International Space Station. Working within the structure of sci-fi, Nod Away moves back and forth between physical and psychological worlds, utilizing traditional and abstract storytelling styles to explore what consciousness could be, where it could possibly be located, and what function or point it might serve.
Author : Tom Hart
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1250110777
A Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist, Amazon Best Book of 2016, one of The Washington Post's Best Graphic Novels of 2016, and one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2016 ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth, and eventually finding hope again. Hart creatively portrays the solace he discovers in nature, philosophy, great works of literature, and art across all mediums in this expressively honest and loving tribute to his baby girl. Rosalie Lighting is a graphic masterpiece chronicling a father's undying love.
Author : Gary Panter
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1683964160
This fine art monograph/faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement. In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a riff on underground comics creators such as Zap's R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Robert Williams, and other icons of that era.
