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Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master
Will Eisner - 1991
A collection of brilliant short-story gems, including "A Sunset in Sunshine City"—an ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by Eisner's transition to life in Florida after his "retirement" in 1985.
Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show
Suehiro Maruo - 1984
The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.
Sunny, Vol. 1
Taiyo Matsumoto - 2011
Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan’s most innovative and acclaimed manga artists.Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias!
The Tarot Cafe, #1
Sang-Sun Park - 2002
She'll help anyone, whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even a magician who creates a humanoid doll to serve the woman he loves. Although she is good-natured, there is a deep dark secret that she must deal with before she can move on to the next life.
Sky Doll: Die Gelbe Stadt
Alessandro Barbucci - 2000
Her life is regulated by a thirty-three hour cycle which is controlled by a key. Whoever holds the key controls her entire existence. Among all the androids of the same production batch, only Noa possesses the ability to dream. But what she is unaware of is that she is more than just another technological toy.Joanna, also known as the Yellow City, one of the twelve cities of the planet Papathéa, is a dominated by a religious schism. On one side is Papesse Ludovique, who reigns as a symbol of only the sensual aspects of the official form of worship. On the other side is Agape, who represents true spirituality, even in the face of corruption. Noa, a doll who works as a cleaner at the Heaven Spaceship Wash, is unaware of this schism and the violence that surrounds it. When Noa decides to flee her servile captivity in search of her origins, she begins an intergalactic journey, accompanied by papal messengers Roy and Jahu.The story of Sky Doll is a both dramatic and humorous, and combines anthropomorphism and cyberpunk Science Fiction with religious concepts and mid-century modern design.
The Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
J.M. DeMatteis - 1987
But there is one beast that has eluded him - the wall-crawling web-slinger known as Spider-Man. And to prove that he is the hero's master, he will pull on his costume and become him - after he shoots and buries him six feet under!
Scott Pilgrim the Complete Series
Bryan Lee O'Malley - 2010
Having to battle his new girlfriend's evil exes was nothing he planned on, but love makes you do funny things. Follow his story in the complete Scott Pilgrim saga in this Scott Pilgrim set. This set contains all six graphic novels in one handy shrink-wrapped pack.
Domu: A Child's Dream
Katsuhiro Otomo - 1982
Old Cho, a disturbed old man with psychic powers, takes control of an apartment complex and causes the tenants to kill themselves or others, but is finally challenged by Etsuko, a young girl with her own psychic talents.
Blacksad
Juan Díaz Canales - 2000
Imagine New York as a city of criminal rats, jazz-playing gorillas and rhino thugs. Enter a mystery where the suspects have tails. Find out why comics' biggest names are wild about one of the freshest graphic novels in years—a 2005 Eisner and Harvey Award nominee. Enter the world of Blacksad. Natalia Wilford is a famous actress. To the world, she had everything anybody could want—beauty, fame, glamour, and lovers who would do anything for her. When she is found murdered in her home, it touches the man who had not seen her since their bitter breakup many years ago. private eye John Blacksad. He vows to find Natalia's murderer.
The March of the Crabs, Vol. 1: The Crabby Condition
Arthur de Pins - 2010
Cancer Simplicimus Vulgaris, or the square crab, has suffered with the same evolutionary defect for millennia: it cannot change direction. Condemned to walk in one straight line forever, these crabs living along the Gironde estuary have largely resigned themselves to their fate. However, one seemingly ordinary summer, three crabs decide to take matters into their own claws and rebel against the straight and narrow path they have been sentenced to, upending the entire ecosystem in the process. From critically-acclaimed French illustrator and animator Arthur de Pins comes the first volume in his hilarious and touching trilogy about scuttling towards your own destiny.
Sandcastle
Pierre Oscar Lévy - 2010
Soon everybody is growing older—every half hour—and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery.
The Ruby Throne
Julien Blondel - 2013
However, Elric's empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melniboné, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the Ruby Throne for himself. Yet when Elric's people come under the threat of a pirate attack, Elric believes that he can once again restore his authority and regain their faith by defeating the pirates. However, the true cost of this task will force him to reveal his allegiance to the dark Arioch, the most dominant of the Lords of Chaos...
Hellblazer: London Streets
Jamie Delano - 2005
The London streets aren't safe, but Constantine is on the case! Includes Hellblazer chapters writtn by Delano, Azzarello, Gaiman, Ennis and Ellis.
Lovecraft: The Myth of Cthulhu
Esteban Maroto - 1986
Lovecraft's most famous stories involving the Cthulhu Mythos.The Nameless City is considered the first story of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, detailing the discovery of an ancient city in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula built by an unnamed race of beings of reptilian appearance. In The Festival a man arrives at the sea town of Kingsport, Massachusetts during Christmas but finds a place eerily empty and centuries out of date. The Call of Cthulhu is perhaps Lovecraft's most famous story, describing a man who after finding the notes of his grand-uncle is lead on a journey around the world in search of this mysterious and disturbing phenomenon.