5 must-read art books like Flake by Matthew Dooley

Cover of Flake by Matthew Dooley

Flake

By: Matthew Dooley

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A stunning first graphic novel by a Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story competition winner – a…

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Cover of Killing and Dying: Stories by Adrian Tomine

1. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • fiction

2. L'Uomo Montagna

By: Séverine Gauthier , Amélie Fléchais

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Grand-pere ne peut plus voyager. Les montagnes qui ont pousse sur son dos tout au long de sa vie so… read more

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3. Sleepwalk and Other Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

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4. Factory Summers

By: Guy Delisle

3.77

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer jobFor three summers … read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
Cover of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood

5. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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6. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comix
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction
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7. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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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

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8. Tunnels

By: Rutu Modan

3.75

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the internatio… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comix
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • fiction
"In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation ma…"

-Rutu Modan, Tunnels

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9. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

By: Isabel Greenberg

3.86

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel about the Brontë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they inve… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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10. Sabrina

By: Nick Drnaso

3.83

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. R… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • fiction
"There you are."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"Just remember that crisis leads to opportunity."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"A lot of people are able to turn their grief into something positive. Maybe you’re destined for some kind of job in law enforcement."

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

"What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even peripherally, in the plot? Are you willing to participate in a crime like t…"

-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

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11. Summer Spirit

By: Elizabeth Holleville

3.29

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A new YA graphic novel from French illustrator Elizabeth Holleville, Summer Spirit puts a fresh spi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction
Cover of Une place : Peintresses, sculptrices, artistes : réflexions sur la présence des femmes dans l'histoire de l'art by Eva Kirilof

12. Une place : Peintresses, sculptrices, artistes : réflexions sur la présence des femmes dans l'histoire de l'art

By: Eva Kirilof

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dans cet ouvrage documenté, Eva Kirilof nous offre des pistes de réflexion sur la place et le rôle … read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
Cover of The Con Artists by Luke Healy

13. The Con Artists

By: Luke Healy

3.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A quintessentially millennial tale about friendship and the quest for self-actualization This is g… read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comix
  • comics
  • fiction
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14. The Hard Switch

By: Owen D. Pomery

3.79

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Ada, Haika, and Mallic are on a mission . . . one last mission, before everything, everywhere shuts… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comix
  • bande dessinée
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  • fiction
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15. Alison

By: Lizzy Stewart

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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  • bande dessinée
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16. Flake

By: Matthew Dooley

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A stunning first graphic novel by a Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story competition winner – a… read more

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  • art
  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • graphic novels comics manga
  • comix
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Silk, Vol. 1: Threats and Menaces by Maurene Goo

17. Silk, Vol. 1: Threats and Menaces

By: Maurene Goo

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

By day Cindy Moon is an intrepid reporter for the upstart new media empire Threats & Menaces, under… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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Cover of Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.) by Luke Healy

18. Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.)

By: Luke Healy

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Pacific Crest Trail runs 2660 miles, from California's border with Mexico to Washington's borde… read more

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"I get to stop now. Stop hiking, and maybe with time, stop other things too. Stop knocking at a door that doesn't want to let me in."

-Luke Healy, Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.)

"Despite my better sense and ample experience in post-American heartbreak. Here I am. Again. The American allure built deep into my soul pulls me along for another ride."

-Luke Healy, Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.)

"Fires will rage in California. And I'll wake from nightmares of lions at my tent. And I'll feel like a crazy person when I talk to people about the trail. And I'll ache to come back."

-Luke Healy, Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.)

Cover of Victory Point by Owen D. Pomery

19. Victory Point

By: Owen D. Pomery

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in, the picturesque, yet architect… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels comics
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  • fiction
Cover of Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Adventures of a French Woman in London by Lucie Arnoux

20. Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Adventures of a French Woman in London

By: Lucie Arnoux

3.75

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A funny, heartfelt graphic memoir about living in foreign countries, and finding one's place both a… read more

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  • comics
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Cover of Blackwood by Hannah Eaton

21. Blackwood

By: Hannah Eaton

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hannah Eaton's second graphic novel follows her much-acclaimed debut, Naming Monsters, shortlisted … read more

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13 Top fiction books like Flake by Matthew Dooley

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Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

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The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso

4.19

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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Daniel Clowes

3.82

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Megahex

Simon Hanselmann

3.80

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Black Hole

Charles Burns

2.83

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Ghost World

Daniel Clowes

3.82

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