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AX. Vol. One : Alternative Manga Features from the pages of Japan's AX magazine--dedicated to introducing the most cutting edge works of Japanese independent comics--are presented in English for the first time, and include visionaries such as Akino Kondoh and Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 2010 Adult Graphic Novel |
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The Book of Genesis An illustrated adaptation of the entire book of Genesis, providing the biblical accounts of the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the ark, the Tower of Babel, and other people and events. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Abel, Jessica La Perdida Fascinated by the Mexican father she never knew, Carla heads for Mexico to find her true identity, landing on the doorstep of her ex-boyfriend and falling in with a gang of small-time drug dealers and would-be revolutionaries. 2006 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Abouet, Marguerite Aya The Ivory Coast in 1978 forms the backdrop for the fictional memoir of Aya, the studious, nineteen-year-old heroine, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling neighbors and relatives, all caught up in the simple pleasures of everyday life in Yop City. 2007 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Ames, Jonathan The Alcoholic Coming off a doomed romance, a failing writer searches for hope in the bottom of a bottle as he careens from one off-kilter encounter to another in search of himself. 2008 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Aono, Shunju I'll Give it My All-- Tomorrow. [Vol.] 1 Shizuo Oguro is living his dreams… sort of. A complete waste of a human life until now, 40-year-old Shizuo breaks free from the corporate rat race and charts himself a fairly random and new career course: to become a published manga artist. Sure, he lacks the talent, discipline, or any other skill necessary to become a success in the manga industry—but that’s not enough to stop Shizuo! 2010 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Aristophane The Zabime Sisters On the first day of summer vacation, teenaged sisters M'Rose, Elle, and Ce´lina step out into the tropical heat of their island home of Guadaloupe and encounter boys, schoolyard fights, petty thievery, and even illicit alcohol. 2010 Teen Graphic Novel |
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Burns, Charles X'ed Out. When Doug wakes up not knowing where he is, his beloved, and possibly dead, cat Inky climbs through a hole in the wall and beckons him to follow, marking the beginning of a mysterious journey through fractured, but apparently related, realities. 2010 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Campbell, Eddie Alec. The Years Have Pants : (a Life-sized Omnibus) The Alec stories present a version of the author's own life, filtered through the alter ego of Alec McGarry. Over several years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression from beer to wine -- wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a responsible breadwinner, feeling lost at his own movie premiere, and much more. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Chwast, Seymour. Dante's Divine Comedy The founding partner of Push Pin Studios puts his own artistic spin on this graphic adaptation of Dante Alighieri's 1321 epic poem chronicling his journey through the afterlife and visiting both Heaven and Hell. 2010 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Clowes, Daniel Ghost World Ghost World is the story of Becky and Enid, two teenaged girls and best friends facing the prospect of not only growing up, but growing apart from each other. Clowes paints a tender picture of this intellectually precocious, sexually adventurous (despite a mutual lack of experience), and formative period in their lives, filtered through a blue hue echoing a world lit by the cathode rays of a television - a perfect metaphor for their post- nuclear existence. 2008 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Dylan, Bob Bob Dylan Revisited An illustrated tribute to the songs of Bob Dylan pairs vivid graphic images with his most famous lyrics, in a series of provocative pieces that reflects the urgent moral and political themes of such works as "Blowin' in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "Hurricane." 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Eisner, Will The Contract with God Trilogy : Life On Dropsie Avenue Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near-mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth. With nearly one dozen new illustrations and a revealing brand-new foreword, this book ultimately tells the epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God. This mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of the universal American immigrant experience is Eisner's most poignant and enduring legacy. 2006 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Fawkes, Ray One Soul Eighteen individuals throughout history whose entire lives unfold simultaneously. Comprised entirely of double page spreads split into eighteen panels with each panel featuring one character's life, cartoonist Ray Fawkes has artfully crafted eighteen linear stories into one non-linear masterpiece. 2011 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Folman, Ari Waltz with Bashir : a Lebanon War Story Ari Folman challenges the collective amnesia of friends and fellow soldiers, candidly piecing together the war and his place in it, describing scenes of combat and patrol, misery and carnage, as well as dreams and hallucinations--recollections that accumulate until Folman arrives at Sabra and Shatila and his investigation reaches its terrible end. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Gaiman, Neil Signal to Noise Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. approached-the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he's still working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No one but us. 2007 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Hamilton, Tim Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 : the Authorized Adaptation In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. 2009 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Hernandez, Gilbert Sloth One year after willfully slipping into a coma, troubled teenager Miguel Torres becomes a walking urban legend as he wakes up virtually unchanged--except for his sloth-like pace. 2006 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Hernandez, Jaime Perla La Loca A third volume of Locas stories by the creator of "Love & Rockets" includes "Wigwam Bam," in which Maggie, Hopey, and their companions traverse the country in the hopes of recapturing more carefree times, and a pair of "Chester Square" graphic tales. 2007 Adult Graphic Novel |
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Hoke, Jeff The Museum of Lost Wonder Jeff Hoke has created a history of the human imagination with visual cues and clues and wonderment about and around everything you ever thought and everything you wish you'd been crafty enough to think. All one needs to enter is some basic understanding of the human experience. Hoke's museum is graphic novel meets quantum physics meets mythical journey meets spirit. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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GRAPHIC NOVELS: LITERATURE...
AUTHORS
GRAPHIC NOVELS: LITERATURE...
AUTHORS
| • | Abel, Jessica |
| • | Abouet, Marguerite
Aya |
| • | Barry, Lynda |
| • | Beddor, Frank
Looking Glass Wars |
| • | Churchland, Marian |
| • | Clowes, Daniel |
| • | Eisner, Will
Contract with God |
| • | Folman, Ari |
| • | Hernandez, Gilbert |
| • | Hornschemeier, Paul |
| • | Kubert, Joe |
| • | Lemire, Jeff |
| • | Moore, Terry, 1954-
Strangers in Paradise |
| • | Pope, Paul |
| • | Shaw, Dash |
| • | Spiegelman, Art |
| • | Sturm, James, 1965- |
| • | Talbot, Bryan |
| • | Tezuka, Osamu
Buddha |
| • | Thompson, Craig, 1975- |
| • | Tomine, Adrian |
| • | Vance, James, 1953- |
| • | Ware, Chris |
| • | Willingham, Bill
Fables |