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Sing No Evil

JP Ahonen · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book

Twenty-something guitarist Aksel stutters when he sings, and the latest reviews say he has the voice of a crow with throat plague. That’s not a compliment, even for the avant-garde music his band Perkeros plays. Aksel is having a hard time keeping the band together, stopping his girlfriend...
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Faith Volume 2: California Scheming

Jody Houser · Valiant Entertainment, LLC
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT ... THE HIGH-FLYING HERO THAT CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE WORLD IS BACK WITH A COLOSSAL NEW COMICS MILESTONE! In a city under siege by robots, aliens, monsters, and even worse... celebrities, there is only one woman the people of Los Angeles can count on: the stratospheric...
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Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years

Marv Wolfman · Dc Comics
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

50 years ago, there was already a Justice League, comprised of the world's greatest heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash. But what of their teen sidekicks Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash? Hearing the groundswell of popularity for these heroes, DC Comics created...
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The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem

Stephen King · Cemetery Dance Pubns; World's First Edition Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King's greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time...
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Lumberjanes. Issue two

Noelle Stevenson · BOOM! Box, 2014.
Format: eBook

When you're a scout, nothing is more important than being prepared, but how do you prepare for legions of supernatural creatures threatening to beat down your scouting camp's door? Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are about to find out! It's just supposed to be a normal day at camp with...
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SP4RX

Wren McDonald · Nobrow Press
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

SP4RX is the story of mankind clawing for survival. Set in a future where a class system has emerged, the world is divided into four levels, with the elite ruling from the extravagant top level.SP4RX, a young hacker who lives off grid, hacks into corporations and sells stolen data to wealthy...
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Ann Tenna: A novel

Marisa Acocella Marchetto · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self - and a challenge to change her life for the better. Glamorous,...
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Wrinkles

Paco Roca · Fantagraphics Books, 2016.
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

In this graphic novel that inspired the award-winning animated film (starring Martin Sheen and Matthew Modine) , two men whimsically escape an assisted living home to avoid confinement. Retired bank manager Emilio, suffering from Alzheimer's, is taken to an assisted living home by his son....
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Batman/TMNT Vol. 1

James Tynion · Dc Comics
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

THE DARK KNIGHT AND THE HEROES IN A HALF SHELL COLLIDE IN THE COMICS CROSSOVER EVENT OF THE YEAR! NEW YORK CITY. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face the battle of a lifetime, fighting both the fearsome Foot Clan and their leader the Shredder and the alien forces of General Krang...which...
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Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Volume 1 - A Matter of Life and Death

George Mann · Titan Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Collects the complete Eighth Doctor Mini-Series.Eerie Victorian magic shows, living paintings, mysterious lost books, crystalline life-forms, space-barges crammed with the undead... Embrace all the Gothic Romance and interstellar terror of the Eighth Doctor in this new series starring the most-requested...
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The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir

Riad Sattouf · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf's internationally acclaimed, #1 French bestseller, which was hailed by The New York Times as "a disquieting yet essential read"In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood...
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Fall of Cthulhu Omnibus. / Volume 1

Michael Alan Nelson · BOOM! Studios
Format: eBook

When Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos himself, devises his most destructive plan yet, a disparate group of humans find themselves brought together as the unavoidable apocalypse draws near.
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Sarah Glidden · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends -- reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit -- as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former...
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Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker

Julian Voloj · Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingly...
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Snowden

Ted Rall · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's...
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