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Building Stories
The award-winning creator of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth presents an intricately illustrated, sprawling tale about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other and an elderly landlady.
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Hand-Drying In America
And Other Stories
The cartoonist author of The Cardboard Valise presents a visual exploration of the many ways property reflects influences and cultural values. The subjects of these strips include window-ledge pillows for people-watchers, artificial tree forests for allergy sufferers and high-visibility construction vests for lonely individuals.
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My Dirty Dumb Eyes
A collection of the author's humorous comics includes tips for living with significant others, rumors about Anna Wintour, and visions of Thanksgiving.
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Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
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Moomin
The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Tove Jansson's beloved comic strip is published for the first time in North America in the first installment of a multi-volume series, chronicling the magical world of her creations, the Moomins.
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Grandville
In a world where France rules over Great Britain during the nineteenth century, detectives LeBrock, a badger, and Ratzi, a rat, investigate the murder of a British diplomat, which may be connected to corruption within the French government.
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Blacksad
Presents three stories in which John Blacksad, private investigator, attempts to find the murderer of an old lover, investigate child abductors, and discover nuclear secrets in the 1950s Red Scare.
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Red Handed
The Fine Art of Strange Crimes
In the city of Red Wheelbarrow, Detective Gould finds himself unusually baffled as he tries to solve a series of unusual crimes.
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Raven Girl
A postman and a raven fall in love in this illustrated book for adults.
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Sketches of Iran
A Glimpse from the Front Lines of Human Rights
Editor Omid Memarian pairs political cartoons with essays for an unvarnished view of life inside Iran.
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Julio's Day
Love and Rockets creator Gilbert Hernandez's latest graphic novel is a haunting portrait of the 20th century, filtered through the life of the titular Julio. Born in 1900 and dying in 2000, Julio sees a lifetime of war, grief and death — but also grace and hope.
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Persepolis
The Story of a Childhood
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.
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Heart of Thomas
In a manga graphic novel being released in English for the first time, boys' boarding school attendee Thomas Werner falls to his death after sending a cryptic letter to a schoolmate. Translated by Matt Thorn.
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The Freddie Stories
Cartoons follow a year in the life of Freddie, an adolescent misfit who is misunderstood by his peers and disliked by his mother, and who relies on his close relationship with his sister, Marlys, to help him cope.
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Wandering Son 1
Shuichi, a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino, a girl who wants to be a boy, become friends in junior high school, where they tackle problems such as gender identity, love, social acceptance, and puberty. Translated by Matt Thorn.
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No Straight Lines
Four Decades of Queer Comics
Collects the best comics featuring homosexuality from the past forty years, including works by such authors as Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, and Ralf Koenig.
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Calling Dr. Laura
A Graphic Memoir
Nicole Georges had always been told that her father was dead — until a psychic told her that he was very much alive. In this graphic memoir, Georges recounts how she learned the truth about her family... and then turned to the Dr. Laura show for advice.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
Pterror over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon
Adèle becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine and a demon from the depths of hell.
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The Crackle of the Frost
One year after leaving his girlfriend Alice as a result of her request that they have a child together, Samuel returns to Alice when he learns she is pregnant to either reopen or close forever the chapter of his life involving her. Translated by Kim Thompson.
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Wonder Woman 1
Blood
When Wonder Woman learns the secret her mother Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept regarding her father, her life shatters.
