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Black Hole
by Charles Burns  
Powells.com Staff Pick Winner of the comics industry's trifecta -- the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards -- Black Hole is a riveting, nightmarish, sometimes ghoulishly funny allegory for the horror of adolescence and our collective terror of sexuality and our own bodies...
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more...
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Persepolis 2 : Story of a Return (04 Edition)
by Marjane Satrapi
Powells.com Staff Pick I must admit I read this, the second installment of Satrapi's illustrated autobiography, before reading the first. Without the full premise of how she left her native country of Iran for Europe, it was easy to think that I had found a interesting...
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Jimmy Corrigan : the Smartest Kid on Earth (00 Edition)
by Chris Ware
Powells.com Staff Pick Brightly and beautifully designed, this "comic book" is encyclopedic, dense eye-candy illustrating an oppressively sad story of injury and loneliness. Ware's book is a semi-autobiographical account of his first contact with the father who...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Powells.com Staff Pick Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents...
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Age of Bronze, Volume 1: A Thousand Ships (Age of Bronze #01)
by Eric Shanower Publisher Comments A Thousand Ships brings to vibrant life the prelude to the Trojan War. Here, once more, shines the glory of Troy. Here the famous names of legend breathe again, Achilles, Odysseus, Paris, Agamemnon...and Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships....
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As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan Publisher Comments Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The US government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for...
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Auschwitz
by Pascal Croci
Publisher Comments In this gripping graphic novel, artist Pascal Croci tells the horrifying story of the World War II concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Using the fictional story of a couple — Kazik and Cessia — who lose a daughter at the camp and barely...
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu
Publisher Comments Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once...
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American Born Chinese (06 Edition)
by Gene Luen Yang
Powells.com Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America...
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Little Things: A Memoir in Slices
by Jeffrey Brown Publisher Comments A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others...
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Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
by Ariel Schrag Publisher Comments Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year...
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The Education of Hopey Glass
by Jaime Hernandez Publisher Comments A stand-alone graphic novel from the Locas universe. It starts with a barely-glimpsed slaying ("Life Through Whispers") and ends with a funeral ("Male Torso Found in L.A. River"). Even though (or perhaps because) he's still carrying the torch for Maggie,...
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
by Craig Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Mike H.'s Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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More Old Jewish Comedians (Blab! Books)
by Drew Friedman Publisher Comments They're back and they have liver spots! This comical collection of of Jewish comedian portraiture is a sequel to 2006's wildly successful Old Jewish Comedians, which earned Friedman raves from Jerry Lewis, Howard Stern, The Believer, Entertainment Weekly...
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Janes World Volume 8
by Paige Braddock Synopsis Like accidentally stumbling into heavy metal karaoke night, Jane knew this vacation was a disaster before it even started. Her first clue could have been the plane crash, but the spiral actually began hours before that, when it was decided they'd all...
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