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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Sonny Liew - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A 2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist, Best US Edition of International Material - Asia, and Best Publication DesignWinner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 A New York Times bestseller An Economist Book of the Year 2016 An NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016 A Washington Post...
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Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel

Jules Feiffer - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book

Meet Big Sam Hannigan. Tough, righteous, a man on a mission. Only problem is, it's the wrong mission.With the New York Times bestseller Kill My Mother, legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer began an epic saga of American noir fiction. With Cousin Joseph, a prequel that introduces us to bare-knuckled...
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Ghosts

Raina Telgemeier - Graphix
Format: Print book

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Baha de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls...
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Hot Dog Taste Test

Lisa Hanawalt - ‎Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover

The new book from the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and designer/producer of Netflixs Bojack Horseman

"Frankly speaking, you should get off your buns and go buy this...

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March: Book Three

Nate Powell - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature2017 Printz Award Winner2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner2017 Sibert Medal Winner2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner2017 Walter Award Winner"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers WeeklyWelcome...
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Patience

Daniel Clowes - Fantagraphics Books
Format: Print book

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2016: from the creator of Ghost World.Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially "Clowesian" and utterly...
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Paper Girls Volume 1

Cliff Chiang - Image Comics, 2016.
Format: Print book

From Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure. In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important...
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Dark Night: A True Batman Story

Paul Dini - Vertigo
Format: Print book

This is a Batman story like no other - the harrowing and eloquent autobiographical tale of writer Paul Dini's courageous struggle to overcome a desperate situation. The Caped Crusader has been the all-abiding icon of justice and authority for generations. But in this surprising...
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Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman - Dark Horse Books
Format: Print book

Enn is a sixteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Marvel
Format: Paperback

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting TChalla with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
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