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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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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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Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick Tove Jansson, a Finnish author and illustrator, drew these comics for the Onday Evening News in the 1950s. Many people know and love her books, but have never seen these amazing comics. Thanks to Drawn & Quarterly, now's your chance! Perfect for both...
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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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Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Novels #02: Classics Illustrated Deluxe #2 Brothers
by Mazan Publisher Comments Four fascinating tales by The Brothers Grimm come alive in these bold new comics adaptations by three incredible graphic novelists. This edition of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED features both the well-loved tales of Hansel and Gretel’s trip to the...
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Funeral of the Heart
by Leah Hayes Publisher Comments A world of dreadful mystery is explored in this exciting debut. Funeral of the Heart is Leah Hayes' stylistic tour-de-force and graphic novel debut, featuring a series of short stories by Hayes and illustrated entirely using the otherworldly medium of...
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Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Novels #02: Classics Illustrated Deluxe #2 Brothers
by Mazan (adp) Publisher Comments Four fascinating tales by The Brothers Grimm come alive in these bold new comics adaptations by three incredible graphic novelists. This edition of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED features both the well-loved tales of Hansel and Gretel’s trip to the...
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Moomin Book Two: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick My favorite continuing-story comic strip is being reprinted in its entirety, and volume two suggests that the five planned installments will just get better and better. In theory, the ecstatically dizzy plots would try the reader's patience, but in...
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Embroideries
by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and...
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Contract With God Trilogy (05 Edition)
by Eisner Publisher Comments The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form. With graphic narrative that was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it (The Economist), A Contract with God...
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The Metamorphosis
by Peter Kuper and Franz Kafka and Kerstin Hasenpusch Publisher Comments Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka's classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper's electric drawings — which merge American cartooning with German expressionism — bring...
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What It Is
by Lynda Barry Publisher Comments “Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades,...
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Classics Illustrated #01: Classics Illustrated: Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments The first volume of the new CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE series presents graphic novelist Michel Plessix’s lush adaptation of “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame. The artwork is in aquarelle, with thin, precise, detailed...
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Glacial Period: A Graphic Novel
by Nicolas De Crecy Publisher Comments For the first time in the US, ComicsLit brings over the latest enfant terrible of European comics, a mad genius, and for the first time, the Louvre museum is involved in a co-edition of a series of graphic novels. There will be four and each will be a...
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
by Chester Brown Publisher Comments “It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel.” –Time Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the...
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The Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert
by Marc Antoin Mathieu Synopsis The next volume in the striking collection in co-publication with the Louvre Museum. An art assessor must evaluate the vast collections of the Louvre in an alternate Kafka-esque world where all is warehoused in an endless succession of basement levels...
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The Man in the Iron Mask (Marvel Illustrated)
by Roy Thomas Publisher Comments Alexandre Dumas' brilliant follow-up to The Three Musketeers, brought to vivid life as only Roy Thomas and Hugo Petrus can! Deep inside the French prison known as the Bastille resides prisoner number 12, Philippe... who is none other than the twin...
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Romeo and Juliet-no Fear Shakespeare (08 Edition)
by Sparknotes Publisher Comments No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels is a series based on the translated texts of the plays found in No Fear Shakespeare. The original No Fear series made Shakespeare’s plays much easier to read, but these dynamic visual adaptations are impossible to...
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Macbeth (Graphic Shakespeare) (06 Edition)
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of prophecy and royal murder in medieval Scotland in graphic novel format....
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Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
by Frans Masereel Publisher Comments Frans Masereel was one of the greatest woodcut artists of the 20th century. This graphic novel is considered his masterpiece. A novel in pictures, we follow our hero from the first bustling frame to the last haunting image and discover a spirit in...
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