The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
By: Brian "Box" Brown
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, …
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1. Andre the Giant: Life and Legend
By: Box Brown , Brian "Box" Brown
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestlin… read more
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2. Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman
By: Box Brown
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive--a popular role on the beloved sitcom T… read more
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3. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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4. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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5. Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes
By: Chip Zdarsky
3.94
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture's greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David… read more
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6. Where the Body Was
By: Ed Brubaker
4.14
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more
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7. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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8. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
9. Night Fever
By: Ed Brubaker
3.87
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more
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10. Parasocial
By: Alex de Campi
3.50
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In the middle of the pandemic, a fading genre-TV actor, fresh from his long-running series' cancell… read more
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11. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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12. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more
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13. Tokyo These Days, Volume 1
By: Taiyo Matsumoto
3.96
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a m… read more
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14. The Great British Bump-Off (#1-4)
By: John Allison
3.63
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant D… read more
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15. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
By: Edel Rodriguez
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more
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16. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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17. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy
By: Bill Griffith
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told t… read more
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18. Okinawa
By: Susumu Higa
4.08
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island’s pre-eminent mangaka,… read more
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19. Nightwing, Vol. 4: The Leap
By: Tom Taylor
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The fourth volume in the thrilling Nightwing epic is here! Collecting the exciting tales from Ni… read more
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20. Blood of the Virgin
By: Sammy Harkham
3.70
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more
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21. In Utero
By: Chris Gooch
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Akira meets Aliens , and Annihilation meets Evangelion , in this coming-of-age monster tale from aw… read more
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22. I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee
By: Tom Scioli
3.42
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's beloved… read more
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23. Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
By: Andrew S. Weiss
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer… read more
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24. Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz
By: Luca Debus
4.07
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
Discover the man behind Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang in this imaginative and tender-… read more
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25. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
By: Maurice Vellekoop
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more
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26. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
By: Brian "Box" Brown
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more
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27. Victory Parade
By: Leela Corman
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantas… read more
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28. Homicide (Homicide: The Graphic Novel, 1)
By: Philippe Squarzoni
4.07
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in thi… read more
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29. But You Have Friends
By: Emilia McKenzie
3.92
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy,… read more
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30. Karate Prom
By: Kyle Starks
3.74
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Don “TheDragonWilson” Jones is the finest fighter Benjamin Harrison High School has ever produced. … read more
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31. Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think!
By: Sarah Kendzior
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Co-hosts of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation outline the authoritarian's playbook, illuminating fi… read more
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