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Bumperhead

Gilbert Hernandez · Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover

A fascinatingly disjointed tale of drugs, rock and roll, and adolescence from a legendary cartoonistThe Love and Rockets author, Gilbert Hernandez, returns with Bumperhead, a companion book to Marble Season. Whereas Marble Season explored the exuberant and occasionally...
 
 
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris · Fantagraphics
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie...
 
 
Is This How You See Me?

Jaime Hernandez · Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Maggie and Hopey leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to go to a punk scene reunion in their old neighborhood. Threaded throughout are flashbacks to 1979, during the formative stages in their lifelong relationship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is juxtaposed...
 
 
Home After Dark: A Novel

DAVID SMALL · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

David Small's long-awaited graphic novel is a savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry like no other work of recent fiction or film.

Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called...
 
 
Batman Vol. 4: The War of Jokes and Riddles

TOM KING · DC Comics
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

A part of DC Universe: Rebirth!

Zero Year. 12 months in which Gotham City was left without power, without laws, without hope. 365 days in which the Riddler ruled the streets. But once again, Batman was victorious.

In the aftermath of Zero Year? War. The Joker vs. The Riddler....
 
 
Wires and Nerve

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

The first graphic novel from #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller Marissa Meyer!

In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart...

 
 
The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel

JULES FEIFFER · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily prophetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My Mother trilogy.

Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things...
 
 
Attack On Lapis City!: EPISODE 1: A Minecraft Underwater Adventure

Two Little Cowboys. · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 56
Format: Print book

Dive into the Underwater World of MINECRAFT! Are you ready to step into the world of Minecraft with our Hero James Aquas? James is a young spawnling with an unquenchable curiosity. Living in Lapis City, his world is surrounded by water. From a young age he wanted to know more about the world...
 
 
The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

EMMA. · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist.

"The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work...
 
 
Chavo the Invisible

Lee Nordling · Graphic Universe
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

"A game of capture the flag takes a fantastical turn, and one participant becomes an unlikely hero"--
 
 
Black Hammer Volume 1

Jeff Lemire · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village...
 
 
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

PNLOPE BAGIEU · First Second
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit.

With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role...

 
 
The Death of Stalin

Fabien Nury · Titan Comics
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

The graphic novel that inspired the new Armando Iannucci movie which includes an all-star cast - Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, and Jeffrey Tambor.Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death...
 
 
Dept. H Volume 1

Matt Kindt · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting and new undersea sci-fi mystery. Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects...
 
 
Marvel Encyclopedia, New Edition

Stan Lee · DK
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"[A] book that mankind has been hungering for, a book that is--now and forever--a shining beacon of wonder, a titanic tribute to talent unleashed" --Stan Lee

Discover the essential facts about Marvel Comics' timeless heroes such as Captain America, Spider-Man, and Iron...