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Biography comic

Fatherland

Fatherland

Through exquisite and haunting black-and-white art, Nina Bunjevac documents the immediate circumstances surrounding her father's death and provides a sweeping account of the former Yugoslovia under Fascism and Communism, telling an unforgettable true story of how the scars of history are borne by family and nation alike.

Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography

Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography

The book begins in Bolivia in 1967, then flashes back through Che's life — his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his subsequent military and political maneuvers, ending in a fade-out to his death. Alberto Breccia and his son, Enrique, drew Life of Che. Enrique draws the Bolivia passages in a woodcut style, while Alberto depicts the flashbacks in his trademark, expressionistic black-and-white. It is primarily set in the field and with the people. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (The Eternaut) blends his authorial voice with Che's first-person. Life of Che is imbued with a sense of immediacy, as both Che and, eventually, Oesterheld would meet their ends by a military government backed by the American CIA. As Pablo Turnes writes in his afterword, it is "the testament of someone consciously marching toward his revolutionary death."

Michael Jordan: Bull On Parade

Michael Jordan: Bull On Parade

A thrilling, kinetic bio-epic about Michael "Air" Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and best-selling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. This tour de force explores Jordan's public successes and private struggles, with the depth of Santiago's passion for his subject shining through on every full-color page. Praise for 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente: "Wilfred Santiago's 21 is brilliant and beautiful, challenging and lyrical... which seems exactly right, as Roberto Clemente was all those things and more." - Rob Neyer, ESPN.com

Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan

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Genre: Biography

Redbone: The True Story of A Native American Rock Band

Redbone: The True Story of A Native American Rock Band

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of west coast rock n' roll pioneers, Redbone. You've heard the hit song “Come and Get Your Love” in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind it is one of cultural, political, and social importance. Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy Hendrix before he was “Jimi,” and the idea of a band made up of completely Native Americans soon followed. Determined to control their creative vision and maintain their cultural identity, they eventually signed a deal with Epic Records in 1969. But as the American Indian Movement gained momentum the band took a stand, choosing pride in their ancestry over continued commercial reward. Created with the cooperation of the Vegas family, painstaking steps were taken to ensure the historical accuracy of this important and often overlooked story of America's past. Part biography and part research journalism, Redbone provides a voice to a people long neglected in American history.

Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross

Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross

Presenting a comprehensive collection of the major comic strips from Milt Gross; Nize Baby, Count Screwloose, and Dave's Delicatessen, along with other comic strips and offerings from books and magazines. Most of the classics seen here have never been reprinted before!

AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy

AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy

Top Shelf presents the "final chapter" of Jeffrey Brown's so-called Girlfriend Trilogy. AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy continues to explore the subtleties of relationships explored in Clumsy and Unlikely, concentrating this time on the differences between knowing and loving someone, invoking the reader's relationship with the book as a parallel to being involved with someone. The story is told with Brown's trademark expressive drawings and juxtaposition of humor and heartache.

Degas and Cassatt: The Dance of Solitude

Degas and Cassatt: The Dance of Solitude

Founder of the Impressionist movement of which he was one of the most merciless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of many paradoxes. A loner, he loved only one woman without ever courting her. Looking into this unique relationship at the twilight of Degas' life, Efa and Rubio open the pages of the artist's notebooks hoping to unravel the mystery of this genius full of contradictions.

I Thought YOU Hated ME

I Thought YOU Hated ME

When MariNaomi first meets Mirabai in grade school, Mirabai seems to be more of a bully than a friend. But over the course of time, their relationship shifts from tense to friendly, to drifting apart, to reconnecting and finding something much deeper. I Thought YOU Hated ME is a comics memoir about female friendship, a story that doesn't involve stale tropes like acrimonious competition or fighting over boys. It explores the complexity and depth of this particular friendship through snapshot-vignettes of relevant moments over thirty years, painting a portrait of something unique but relatable, common but extraordinary.

Anais Nin: On the Sea of Lies

Anais Nin: On the Sea of Lies

The journey of a woman who emancipates herself through writing and exploring her sensuality.Beginning of the 1930s. Anaïs Nin lives in the Parisian suburbs and struggles with the anguish of her life as a banker's wife. Several times uprooted, she grew up between 2 continents, 3 languages, and struggles to find her place in a society which relegates women to supporting roles. She wants to be a writer, and since childhood has invented a loophole: her diary. He is her drug, her companion, her double, the one who allows her to explore the complexity of her feelings and to perceive the sensuality that smolders within her. It was then that she met Henry Miller, a revelation that proved to be the first step towards great upheavals.

Tamba, Child Soldier

Tamba, Child Soldier

“My name is Tamba Cisso. When I was eight years old, I lived in the village with my father, my mother and my sister. I went to school and had learned to read. I knew there was war in my country, but I didn’t know that children could wage it.” Providing a testimonial to one of the most heart-wrenching and chilling developments in modern warfare, this graphic novel chronicles the realities of hundreds of thousands across the world, kidnapped and forced to commit atrocities.

The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions

The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions

Corinne Mucha tells three hilarious and honest tales of her life and her amazing imagination. In the first, "There's a Monkey in the Basement," Corinne spots signs of an animal in her basement and quickly deduces a circus monkey has hidden in her house! Then in "I Don't Belong Here," she deals with the evidence she was switched at birth and/or re-incarnated. Finally, in "Flying Dreams," her vivid dreams of flying lead her to try to discover how she can fly in real life.

Unlikely

Unlikely

Following Jeffrey Brown's debut hit, Clumsy, Unlikely continues to explore the nature of relationships in this story of how Jeffrey Brown lost his virginity. A full-length graphic novel of excruciating detail and intimacy, drawn in an awkward style that both disarms the reader and heightens the emotional impact of the work. NOTE: This comic is for adult viewers only, due to sexual content and nudity.

The Young Woman and the Sea

The Young Woman and the Sea

Catherine Meurisse once again draws upon her memories. Her stay in a far-off, strange-yet-familiar land, at the Japanese villa Kujoyama in 2018, provides the artist another opportunity to pursue her creative quest, this time where the West and Far East meet. In the manner of Lewis Carroll, the young artist lets characters out of legend lead her through pictorial landscapes. Imagination and dialogue are key to penetrating the secrets of this strange territory and discovering why the young explorer finds it so fascinating. This Alice daydreams and wonders, returning every now and then to reality and nature, that dynamic dictator of events and situations. After The Great Outdoors, Catherine Meurisse continues her pursuit of beauty in an unknown land, between mountain and sea, illustrating landscapes that reflect the seasons and the artist's progress. Truly splendid!

Feeble Attempts

Feeble Attempts

Collecting some favorite Jeffrey Brown anthology and mini-comic stories, Feeble Attempts is at turns comedic and meaningful. It's densely packed with autobiographical musings, political jabs, Jesus, superheroes, funny job stories, childhood goofiness, and... okay, yes, even a little adolescent relationship drama. But only a little, we promise.

Political Power: Ronald Reagan

Political Power: Ronald Reagan

Was the Soviet Union an 'Evil Empire'? Was President Ronald Reagan at the right place and right time when it collapsed? Or was he one of the shrewdest occupants of the White House? Find out how this Midwesterner-turned-actor-turned-President went from B-movies to revitalizing the Republican Party and orchestrating the end of the Cold War.
Genre: Biography

Gotta Have 'em: Portraits of Women by R. Crumb

Gotta Have 'em: Portraits of Women by R. Crumb

He's been called a genius and a "world-class malcontent." R. Crumb, the visionary founder of the underground comics movement and unwilling hipster to multiple generations, celebrated for his viciously funny take on modern America, is also lauded as a draughtsman on par with Breughel. For the first time ever, his drawings of women are collected in one brilliantly offensive yet hilarious volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38 years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. The usual fetishes are on display, natch--the built-from-the-ground-up body type, the lovingly fixated-upon solid thighs and buttocks--but so is Crumb's heart, on his sleeve, in the great tenderness with which he has rendered the women in his life. They're all here: his high-school crushes, his paramours, the girls and women who tormented him--and to whom he gave it right back--or who caught his eye on the street, and, of course, his wife and fiery sometime collaborator, Aline, and their daughter Sophie. Add to this his mistress of fifteen years, and you have not only a catalogue raisonne of Crumb's portraits of women but also a revealing record of a passionate life. Crumb calls it "an autobiography of sorts" and it is--these aren't just portraits of women but the most intimate portrait of Crumb's life in love.
Genre: Biography

Wolverine: Dying Time

Wolverine: Dying Time

“Dying Time” is a self-published mini comic by Jeffrey Brown, who is best known for his biographical and Star Wars comics, focusing on the exploits of X-Men’s Wolverine.
Genre: Biography

Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Dave Sheridan collects the best of the legendary underground cartoonist's tripped-out comic strip hilarity. It includes Sheridan's solo comics, many reprinted for the very first time, and his collaborations with Fred Schrier and Gilbert Shelton (who writes the foreword), along with his record covers, beer labels, and advertisements for more... cough,cough... organic products.

Lil' Donnie: Executive Privilege

Lil' Donnie: Executive Privilege

Finally, the acclaimed Rueben Award-nominated webcomic is collected! Follow the timely and terrifying adventures of Lil’ Donnie, the worst president in the history of the United States of America. This collection contains the first year of antics of a truly motley crew of weirdos and degenerates as they work (HA!) to make our world a better place… for them! Get one while we still have a first amendment! Collects the first 125 LIL’ DONNIE comic strips COMPARISON TITLES If Sh*t My President Says—or really any @POTUS tweet nowadays—has you rolling on the floor laughing, then you’ll love LIL’ DONNIE!

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