PAPER PERIL (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)
By: Jean-Baptiste Bourgois
3.05
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
One man's quest to become an artist. A lovingly crafted ode to the pitfalls of artistic expression.…
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1. Wendy
By: Walter Scott
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Wendy is trendy, and has dreams of art stardom--but our young urban protagonist is perpetually dera… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
2. Wendy's Revenge
By: Walter Scott
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Wendy was at a crossroads, but the next chapter of her adventures sees her leave Montreal and head … read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
3. Through the Woods
By: Emily Carroll
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
4. Congress of the Animals
By: Jim Woodring
3.83
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to … read more
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5. Imagine Wanting Only This
By: Kristen Radtke
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in colleg… read more
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6. Night Animals
By: Brecht Evens
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Lush colors, wild imagination, and rich human themes collide in the Top Shelf debut of Belgian cart… read more
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7. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
8. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
9. 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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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. 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
- fiction
"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
13. In Limbo
By: Deb J.J. Lee
4.18
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
14. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
15. When I Arrived at the Castle
By: Emily Carroll
3.69
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
16. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
17. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
18. The Lie And How We Told It
By: Tommi Parrish
3.67
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the ser… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
19. 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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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
20. Tótem
By: Laura Pérez
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Diferentes vivencias conectadas entre sí transcurren a lo largo de diferentes viajes, ensoñaciones,… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
"Hay lugares donde lo cotidiano es lo extraordinario."-Laura Pérez, Tótem
21. Press Enter to Continue
By: Ana Galvañ
3.54
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanish cartoonist Ana Galvañ charts an often-psychedelic and existential course for modernity in h… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
22. Why Art?
By: Eleanor Davis
3.88
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the conce… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
23. 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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- graphic novels
- comics
24. Wendy, Master of Art
By: Walter Scott
4.09
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
"[In Wendy, Master of Art,] Scott manages a rare thing: the sharpness of his satire doesn’t preclud… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
25. The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life
By: Grant Snider
4.08
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In The Art of Living , beloved cartoonist Grant Snider—author of The Shape of Ideas and I Will Judg… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
26. My Picture Diary
By: Maki Fujiwara
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
27. As a cartoonist
By: Noah Van Sciver
3.86
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
A series of comic strips joined together by the theme of the author’s chosen profession ― cartoonin… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
28. Please Don't Step On My JNCO Jeans
By: Noah Van Sciver
3.71
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From 2017 to 2019, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was creating short stories and illustrations for loca… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
29. PAPER PERIL (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)
By: Jean-Baptiste Bourgois
3.05
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
One man's quest to become an artist. A lovingly crafted ode to the pitfalls of artistic expression.… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
30. Excuse Me
By: Liana Finck
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A razor-sharp collection from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and Instagram sensation, Liana Fi… read more
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- art
- graphic novels
- comics
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
