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Non-Fiction, Graphic NovelsPages Will Eisner Companion TPB Will Eisner's career spans the entire history of American comic books, from his formative days in the 1930s into the 1940s when he revolutionized narrative sequential art with his internationally famed series The Spirit, to the 1970s when he created the contemporary graphic novel form with A CONTRACT WITH GOD , to the present! THE WILL EISNER COMPANION is a comprehensive, critical overview of the work of this legendary writer/artist. Divided into two sections - his Spirit work and his graphic novels - this authorized companion features critical and historical essays by noted comics historians N.C. Christopher Couch and Stephen Weiner, as well as alphabetical indexes relating to all aspects and characters in his oeuvre. This volume also includes a chronology, a bibliography and suggested reading lists, as well as an introduction by Dennis O'Neil. THE WILL EISNER COMPANION is a must-have celebration for new fans as well as old. We Are On Our Own: A Memoir By Miriam Katin HC A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her Mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching Katin and her mother are forced to flee to the countryside after faking their deaths. Leaving behind all of their belongings and loved ones and unable to tell anyone of their whereabouts they disguise themselves as a Russian servant and illegitimate child while literally staying a few steps ahead of the German soldiers. Katin whose short stories first appeared in the Drawn & Quarterly anthology has completed her first full-length graphic novel at the age of sixty-three. Transformers: TransManual Vol. 2: 1987-1990 - An Unofficial Guide to Collecting Transformers Welcome to the world of Transformers! These immensely popular "robots in disguise" originated in Japan, and the United States has only been one destination on their worldwide tour. The unofficial guide to Collecting Transformers volume two brings you all the Transformers released between 1987 - 1990. There are Over 50 individual Transformers featured with their specifications, variations and multiple color photo views. When I'm Old and Other Stories TPB New York-based cartoonist Gabrielle Bell brings together thirty-five of the popular "Book of" series, plus several extra short comics, displaying the broad range of Bell's storytelling and cartooning talent. Her fiction includes "Book of Black," a story of Kate, a pretty young rhinoplasty assistant who encounters happy-go-lucky street people, a lascivious landlord, vapid co-workers, and Trent Reznor on her descent into madness. Bell's autobiographical tales feature the author as an eccentric old lady, a five hundred-foot-tall woman, in England, in Mexico with a baby, and being charmed and hypnotized by colorful San Francisco characters. Spiral Cage TPB Born with severe Spina Bifida, doctors considered Al Davison a hopeless case, condemned to the 'Spiral Cage' of his own DNA, in Al's own words and pictures, this book movingly portrays his struggle to overcome 'disability' and the prejudice that surrounds it. Speechless: Tales from the System HC "Peter Kuper is a filmmaker. In the same way that Egyptians who carved mile upon mile of hieroglyphics on temple walls were filmmakers. In the same what that the primitive people who painted the interior of the Lascaux Caves were filmmakers. Peter Kuper is a filmmaker with a pencil. His drawings are motionless, but full of animation. They are silent and still, but they are moving." --Andy Partridge Musician, XTC Will Eisners Invisible People SC by Will Eisner Invisible People is a haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville." Will Eisners City People Notebook SC by Will Eisner With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents one of his renowned celebrations of the Big Apple. City People Notebook contains character sketches and timeless snapshots of the eccentric denizens of the American city that perfectly capture Eisner's genius and powers of observation." Will Eisners The Building SC by Will Eisner An extraordinary and classic graphic novel celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art. The Building is a story filled with ghosts, and a testament to our greatest human qualities - a deeply moving chronicle of a city building and the people who inhabited it." Perla La Loca - Locas Vol. 3 TPB by Jaime Hernandez Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture their carefree youth. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas where she contends with both her inner demons and a murderous prostitute, and Camp Vicki where she must fend off her Aunt Vicki's attempt to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of the amorous wrestler Gina. And what's this about Maggie getting married? Beyond Palomar - Palomar Vol. 3 TPB Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. 'Poison River' traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. 'Love and Rockets X' takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Acme Novelty Library Vol. 18 HC Cartoonist Chris Ware abandons the engaging serialization of his 'Rusty Brown' and instead focuses upon his more experimentally grim narrative, 'Building Stories.' Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year 2000, the stories move from the straightforward to the complex, invading character's memories and personal ambitions with a text point size likely unreadable to human beings over the age of 45. Reformatted to accommodate this different material, readers will be pleased by the volume's vertical shape and tasteful design. |
