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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
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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Marvel 1602
by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove
Powells.com Staff Pick "Gaiman's work is a small triumph. He's managed to faithfully translate time-honored Marvel characters while in many respects deepening and enriching them....Gaiman understands character above all else, which may explain why — freed of the...
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In the Shadow of No Towers
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Three years after the terrorist attacks, the once-incomprehensible has become part of our routine, a fact of our daily lives, perhaps taken for granted by those whose lives were not directly, irrevocably altered by the disaster. In the Shadow of No...
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Jimmy Corrigan: Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth
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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Hellboy #04: The Right Hand of Doom 2nd Edition
by Mike Mignola
Powells.com Staff Pick Part Gothic horror, part slam-bang superhero histrionics, Hellboy is a sometimes-unwieldy hybrid. When it hits the mark — most often in the short stories collected in The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom — the series achieves the...
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The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family
by Matt Groening
Powells.com Staff Pick I hate television, but I love The Simpsons.And I'm not the only one. The Simpsons is the most intelligent show on television and millions know it. Portland certainly knows it: Matt Groening is from Portland and many of the characters on the show are...
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The Best American Comics 2006
by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick Art and words meld in explosive and provocative ways in this fantastic and diverse sampling of the best new comics in America. No super heroes, no kids' stuff: just great storytelling. Recommended by Clyde, Powells.com...
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Red Rocket 7 (98 Edition)
by Allred
Powells.com Staff Pick A Hi-Sci-Fi graphic novel from the creator of Madman, Allred's tale of a alien clone who learns to rock and roll is a perfect fanboy fantasy. Fleeing the tyranny of the evil Enfinites, Red Rocket crash lands on Earth. Near death, and seeking to...
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Mome
by Gary Groth
Powells.com Staff Pick The second issue of this quarterly journal of the best in "sequential art" is a must-have for every true lover of the comics form. Mome is the comics lover's answer to lit-journals like Granta and McSweeney's: it features some of the edgiest, most...
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A Dame to Kill For -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #02)
by Frank Miller
Powells.com Staff Pick Take your favorite film noir, inject it with a hefty dose of testosterone, bind it with the twisted genius of Frank Miller (auteur of The Dark Knight Returns and other seminal graphic works), and light the fuse. The explosive result is a dark, bloody...
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Banana Sunday
by Root Nibot and Colleen Coover
Powells.com Staff Pick Who doesn't love monkeys? Especially monkeys who... talk?! This fun-filled all-ages graphic novel is a mystery along with a story of friendship. Who are these monkeys? Where did they come from? And could they (and their human friends) be any cuter or...
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But I Like It
by Joe Sacco
Powells.com Staff Pick Joe Sacco's mesmerizing quest to "adulthood" is a road full of the sort of hysteria, psychedelia, and bull&%#t that can only come from being a rock 'n' roll cartoonist on tour. To imagine Robert Crumb meeting Spinal Tap might give you a slight idea of...
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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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Jack Cole & Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1941, Jack Cole, formerly an illustrator and later a cartoonist for Playboy, introduced the world to Plastic Man, a superhero who, due to an unfortunate accident with a horrible acid, developed the incredible ability to transform himself into any...
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Summer Blonde
by Adrian Tomine
Powells.com Staff Pick A friend of mine once picked up a copy of Optic Nerve #9 off of the floor of my apartment. Forty-five minutes later she handed it to me, her eyes wide and starving: "I want more!" she said. Sadly, most of Tomine's stories leave you this way...
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The Complete Peanuts: 1955-1956
by Charles M. Schulz
Powells.com Staff Pick It can be hard to remember a time when Snoopy wasn't an insurance salesman and Charlie Brown didn't stare at us from a million Hallmark cards — in short, when Peanuts was still sharp and funny and relevant. Thank God, then, for the Complete Peanuts...
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That Yellow Bastard -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #04)
by Frank Miller
Powells.com Staff Pick Take your favorite film noir, inject it with a hefty dose of testosterone, bind it with the twisted genius of Frank Miller (auteur of The Dark Knight Returns and other seminal graphic works), and light the fuse. The explosive result is a dark, bloody...
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Hellboy #05: Conquerer Worm 2nd Edition
by Mike Mignola
Powells.com Staff Pick Part Gothic horror, part slam-bang superhero histrionics, Hellboy is a sometimes-unwieldy hybrid. When it hits the mark — most often in the short stories collected in The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom — the series achieves the...
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The Big Fat Kill -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #03)
by Frank Miller
Powells.com Staff Pick Take your favorite film noir, inject it with a hefty dose of testosterone, bind it with the twisted genius of Frank Miller (auteur of The Dark Knight Returns and other seminal graphic works), and light the fuse. The explosive result is a dark, bloody...
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Baltimore; or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Powells.com Staff Pick A work of Gothic perfection, Baltimore could very nearly pass for a genuine "lost classic" of the Penny Dreadful era. Fans of Mike Mignola's Hellboy, the supernatural novels of Christopher Golden, and vampire fiction with a Victorian bite will sink...
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