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Pretending is Lying

Dominique Goblet · New York Review Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Pretending Is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, it is at once an intimate account of love and familial dysfunction and an audacious experiment in graphic storytelling. In a series of dazzling fragments...
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

PNLOPE BAGIEU · First Second
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

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 models, some world famous,...
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 8

RYAN NORTH · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

Journey to the Forbidden Pla-nut! When Nancy and Tippy find themselves on an alien world where all is not what it seems, Squirrel Girl must find a way to get to the other side of the universe to save them. And fast! Intergalactic transport through the cosmic realm? This sounds like a job for the Sorcerer...
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Batman: Hush 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

JEPH LOEB · DC Comics
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

One of the most important and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time is now presented in a deluxe hardcover edition, including many of the extras and bonus materials from ABSOLUTE BATMAN: HUSH. BATMAN: HUSH 15TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION presents the original graphic novel in hardcover,...
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Everything is Flammable

GABRIELLE BELL · Uncivilized Books
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover

"Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear." - Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Are You My MotherIn Gabrielle Bell's much anticipated...
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LEGO DC Superheroes: Save the Day

Trey King · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Experience Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) like you've never seen them before-LEGO(R) style!Join the World's Greatest Detective and the Man of Steel: Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) --like you've never seen them before. LEGO(R) Batman and Superman team up with Robin and Wonder...
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American Way: Those Above and Below

John Ridley · Vertigo
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Three Kings) offers an alternate U.S. history in the thrilling graphic novel THE AMERICAN WAY, now in a brand-new 10th Anniversary Edition!From writer John Ridley (Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave and creator of TV's...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3

Marvel Comics · Marvel Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The full truth of the People's revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been revealed! Now, T'Challa must fight like never before for the fate of his nation - and one of his most trusted allies is back to stand by his side. As the final battle begins, the entirety of Wakanda's...
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Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics

Various Authors · First Second
Format: Hardcover

As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble...
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E Butler · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity...
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Doom Patrol Book One

Grant Morrison · DC Comics
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

The groundbreaking series from Grant Morrison that led American comics in a wholly unexpected direction. Originally conceived in the 1960s by the visionary team of writer Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani, the Doom Patrol was reborn a generation later through Grant Morrison's singular...
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In the Clutches of the Penguin!

Bill Matheny · DC Comics
Format: Print book

In this story starring a young Batman who is new to crimefighting, The Penguin pulls a heist that could reveal Bruce Waynes secret identity and destroy vast portions of the city of Gotham!,
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Doom Patrol Book Two

Grant Morrison · DC Comics/Vertigo
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The World's Strangest Heroes continue their adventures in this next collection of Grant Morrison's career-launching run on DOOM PATROL. For the first time, meet Danny the Street and subsequently Flex Mentallo. But the team soon realizes that there may be more to Flex than they first...
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Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time

Saladin Ahmed · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

The silent king of the Inhumans stars in his fi rst-ever solo series! But it begins with Black Bolt...imprisoned?! Where exactly is he? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers to both will shock you -and Black Bolt as well! For if he is to learn...
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Superman: Doomsday

Dan Jurgens · DC Comics
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

HE IS RELENTLESS. HE IS UNSTOPPABLE. HE IS DOOMSDAY. Superman travels to the nightmare world of Apokolips for a confrontation with Doomsday, the creature who cost the Man of Steel his life. With the help of the mysterious, time-traveling Waverider, Superman at last discovers the shocking...
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