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Maybe Later
by Dupuy  Publisher Comments An inside look at France’s superstar cartooning team Maybe Later sees Dupuy & Berberian working separately for the first time, each cartoonist taking turns to tell the behind-the-scenes “making of” their bestselling Mr. Jean...
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Lucky
by Gabrielle Bell Publisher Comments A wry daily comics journal of urban ennui Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy...
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
by Guy Delisle Synopsis In 2001, cartoonist Guy Delisle lived in the capital of North Korea for two months on a work visa for a French film company. In this remarkable graphic novel, Delisle recorded what he was able to see of the culture and lives of one of the last remaining...
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Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine Publisher Comments From the preeminent acrtoonist of his generation, the most anticipated graphic novel of 2007. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties...
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Ordinary Victories
by Manu Larcenet Synopsis Lyrical rendering of the everyday struggle. Prize for best album in Angouleme....
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Remembrance of Things Past #02: Remembrance of Things Past: Part Two: Within a Budding Grove
by Marcel Proust Publisher Comments continues the coming-of-age story as the adolescent Proust is smitten by beauties his own age. Late summer romance at the beach, anyone?...
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P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptations #03: Adaptations of Pelleas & Melisande, Salome, Ein Heldentraum, Cavalleria Rusticana
by P. Craig Russell Publisher Comments This collection of Russell's classics concludes with Pelleas and Melisande by Maeterlinck and Debussy, Strauss' Salome, and the all-new Godfather's Code from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni....
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Life Force (06 Edition)
by Eisner Publisher Comments "Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."—John Updike Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist...
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Jar of Fools
by Jason Lutes Publisher Comments Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother’s suicide, and he’s hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and...
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Gravitation
by Andrew Cunningham Synopsis Bad Luck is out to crash Nittle Grasper's concert with a brand-new song. Can Shuichi steal the thunder from Ryuichi, or has Bad Luck's streak finally run out? Full color. Rated for older teens....
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Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World
by Seth 
Powells.com Staff Pick "Seth's desire to try something new at every turn makes Wimbledon Green fresh, unpredictable, and riveting. His line work is deceptively simple yet beautifully precise. His finest inspiration is to portray the comic book collector and his world in the...
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American Elf: James Kochalka's Collected Sketchbook Diaries
by James Kochalka Publisher Comments A deluxe compilation of the first five years of James Kochalka's ground breaking daily diary comic strip. Since October 1998, James Kochalka has kept a daily diary, drawn in comic strip form in his sketchbook. Drawn with relaxed and beautiful brushwork...
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Mr. Spic Goes to Washington
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically minded graphic novel. Weaving humor with social commentary, Stavans tells a tale of a...
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Aya
by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie Publisher Comments Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first television ad campaign promoting the fortifying effects of Solibra, "the strong man's beer." It's a golden time, and the nation, too — an oasis of...
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Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Volume 1 Divergent S
by Hajime Yatate Synopsis Asuna, a below-average student at the premier training school for Gundam pilots, is headed for a crash course in danger and love as the world spirals toward war....
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Lucifer's Garden of Verses, Vol. 3: The Student (or Nude Descending a Staircase... Head First)
by Lance Tooks Synopsis Inspired by the German Silent film classic "The Student of Prague," this is the story of Andre Baldwin, a down-on-his-luck would-be Basquiat who enters into a Faustian bargain with a powerful art critic in exchange for status, riches and the love of a...
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Skibber Bee Bye
by Ron, Jr. Rege Publisher Comments “Ron Regé is one of a handful of cartoonists in the history of the medium not only to reinvent comics to suit his own idiosyncratic impulses and inspirations as an artist, but also to imbue it with his own peculiar, ever-changing emotional...
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It's Only a Game
by Charles M. Schulz Publisher Comments In the late 1950s, amidst the surging popularity of Peanuts and during a strongly creative period, Charles M. Schulz created his only other syndicated newspaper comic. It's Only a Game focused on the fun and foibles of people and their pastimes: golf...
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Get a Life
by Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy Publisher Comments A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning team For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the...
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Contract With God (06 Edition)
by Eisner Publisher Comments "Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."—John Updike A revolutionary novel, A Contract With God re-creates the neighborhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories...
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