Fiction / Literature / Comics / Graphic novels: narrative themes
El pequeño libro del amor
Book SynopsisDel amor más inocente a la pérdida más dolorosa, 72 Kilos vuelve para ilustrar algunas de las millones de formas de amar que existen en nuestras vidas.Ojalá te sirva alguna para la tuya.Este libro no tiene ni principio ni final.Cada viñeta será tan grande como tú quieras entenderla.
£17.90
Combel Ediciones Editorial Esin, S.A. Salvador: Volume 22
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£14.57
Algar Editorial Los Robotones Y La Hidra de Lerna
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£13.84
Principal de Los Libros Libro de Los Cinco Anillos
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£16.21
Prh Grupo Editorial Leñadoras. Todas a una Lumberjanes. Band
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£16.90
Ponent Mon, S.L. Mi Mama Esta En America Y Ha Conocido A Buffalo
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£18.15
Screen omnibus
Book SynopsisTras Agujero negro y Vista final, Charles Burns se consagra internacionalmente con una nueva obra maestra de tintes autobiográficos*LIBRO DEL AÑO*The New YorkerThe Washington PostPublishers Weekly*PREMIO EISNER*Mejor autor completo (guionista/dibujante)El virtuosismo de Burns se muestra aquí en todo su esplendor. [...] Se diría que Charles Burns nació para escribir Laberintos.The Washington PostDe niño, Brian Milner rodaba películas de ciencia ficción en su casa con la colaboración de toda su pandilla, que interpretaba a víctimas de aterradores asesinatos usando lápiz de labios para simular sangre. Hoy, Brian es un talentoso aspirante a cineasta, y planea un viaje a una cabaña remota en el bosque junto con sus amigos Jimmy, Tina y Laurie (esta última se ha convertido en su musa, aunque con cierta reticencia). Quiere rodar una auténtica película de terror y ciencia ficción con una vieja cámara de 8 milímetros, que a la vez será un homenaje a su película favorita: La invasión de los ladrones de cuerpos. Aunque se hace evidente que los sentimientos de Brian por Laurie no son correspondidos, él decide seguir adelante con una fantasía en la que ella es la chica de sus sueños, su damisela en apuros y su salvadora, todo a la vez.Laberintos es una obra repleta de referencias a filmes clásicos en la que las viñetas parecen desbordarse con impresionantes representaciones de la naturaleza, el lenguaje cinematográfico y los paisajes de lo surreal, difuminando la frontera entre los sueños de Brian y la realidad. Presentamos ahora los tres álbumes que componen la obra reunidos en un único volumen: una mirada magistral a qué significa expresarse a través del arte, reconocida internacionalmente como la obra más personal de Charles Burns.LA PRENSA HA DICHO:Sin duda, una de sus mejores obras. Sus páginas enormes te zarandean y te llevan a rastras a grandiosos exteriores norteamericanos bañados por la luna.The GuardianUn autorretrato trágico dibujado con tal distancia irónica que suscitaría la envidia de un Warhol o un Lichtenstein.The New York TimesNadie sabe representar la tribulación adolescente como Charles Burns.TagesspiegelUn relato de carácter autobiográfico e introspectivo que oscila entre el romance, el thriller psicológico y el homenaje al cine de terror.France CulturePerturbadoramente bello.Wiener ZeitungBurns está en una plenitud gloriosa como dibujante.RockdeluxUna impecable creación de uno de los gigantes indiscutibles del cómic de autor.Diario 16Una turbadora obra de aroma autobiográfico. [...] Timidez, imaginación fantasiosa, una sensibilidad aguda y un aura de hiriente incomprensión.ABCBurns vuelve a superarse a sí mismo. [...] Sencillamente glorioso.LH Magazin
£30.31
Taylor & Francis Ltd Comics and Videogames
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Meltdown
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Art of War
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£20.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Book SynopsisThe text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was first published in the collection anthology Stories: All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. This gorgeous full-color illustrated book version was born of a unique collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman and artist Eddie Campbell, who brought to vivid life the characters and landscape of Gaiman's story. In August 2010, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was performed in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House to a sold-out crowd—Gaiman read his tale live as Campbell's magnificent artwork was presented, scene-by-scene, on large screens. Narrative and art were accompanied by live music composed and performed especially for the story by the FourPlay String Quartet.
£18.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Big Nate Super Scribbler
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£9.55
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 3
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£17.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 5
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£16.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Knockout
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£13.06
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everyones a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too A Book
Book Synopsis“Jomny Sun has created a frightened, hopeful view of Life As We Know It from the perspective of a weirdly relatable alien intelligence. Fantastic.” — Patton OswaltEveryone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun.Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a home on our planet after learning that earthlings can feel lonely too. Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, an owl working its way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming to terms with turning into a frog, a dying ghost, a puppy unable to express itself, and many more.Through this story of a lost, lonely and confused alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a little more human. And for all of us earth-bound creatures here on this planet, we can all be reminded that sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us see ourselves for who we truly are.Trade Review“Jomny Sun’s incredible writing knocks you to the floor, breathless, then scoops you up and gives you a kiss where it hurts before it occurs to you to cry. Read this book only if you want to feel more alive.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda “Jomny Sun has created a frightened, hopeful view of Life As We Know It from the perspective of a weirdly relatable alien intelligence. Fantastic.” — Patton Oswalt Impressively sincere, at times insightful, and humorous…. Sun’s fans will welcome his first book with wild enthusiasm… — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bart Simpson Breaks Out
Book SynopsisEscape brain-numbing boredom with Bart Simpson!Bart and his pals are holding nothing back! First, the sons of The Legitimate Businessman’s Social Club (aka the Mafia) take over Springfield Elementary, and they have their sights set on recruiting Bart as their newest member. And when Lisa applies her study habits to the art of pranking, she gives Bart a healthy dose of competition for the title of “Class Clown.” Then, Bartman tangles with an eight-baby-wielding villain named Dr. Octuplets. Also, Martin Prince makes a move up the social ladder, Homer offers Maggie the moon, and Principal Skinner resorts to desperate measures to contain the force that is . . . Bart Simpson!
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Cat Story
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£19.54
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Barely Functional Adult
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Meichi Ng’s collection of illustrated short stories is a hug to the soul….She’ll have readers laughing at every page. Every adult should have a few books that fit into the “We all have no idea what we’re doing! Hooray!” genre, and Barely Functional Adult should be your next addition.” — Shondaland “Ng strikes the right balance between pointing out life's injustices, finding the humor in them and offering the hope of resolution.” — Shelf Awareness, starred review “Meichi shares moments and thoughts that impact a lifetime of self-discovery and growth. The book's lovely poignancy is only enhanced by the constant humor of the comics throughout. Great read!” — Nick Seluk, author of Heart and Brain and creator of The Awkward Yeti “Barely Functional Adult has all the wit and biting humor of the comics that preceded it, but in an expanded format that is more personal, insightful, and even funnier.” — Reza Farazmand, author of Poorly Drawn Lines "Meichi has created a wonderful collection of sincere and engaging stories which are only elevated by the interspersed comics to provide extra insight and humor. From start to finish, I found myself smiling, laughing or nodding in agreement with the many topics in the book that I identified with. A truly enjoyable read!" — Chris McCoy, author of Safely Endangered Comics “Barely Functional Adult is full of sweet, honest tales about growing up, with life lessons and wasp-related metaphors you’ll find yourself thinking about long after you’ve put the book down. Meichi’s hilarious stories and adorable drawings feel like a warm hug that you won’t want to let go of.” — Dami Lee, author of Be Everything at Once “Heartwarming, honest, hilarious and extremely relatable! The comics convey the widest range of emotions with a charmingly minimalist style. I couldn’t put it down!” — Gemma Gené, creator of 157ofgemma “Burgeoning adult Meichi Ng puts the fun in Barely Functional through this collection of personal, comical and deeply relatable stories. A must-read for anyone grappling with adulthood (and African dwarf frogs).” — Worry Lines
£13.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Firebird
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGripping and thoughtful. — Kirkus Reviews Debut creator Sunmi’s grayscale graphic novel artfully captures the trials and tribulations of one teen’s experience wrestling with who she’s always been and who she wants to be via emotive facial expressions and youthful language, making for a sensitive and meditative character study. — Publishers Weekly A beautiful coming-of-age story. — Booklist
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Conquer the Day
Book SynopsisFrom the irreverent mind of Josh Mecouch, the artist behind the wildly popular Instagram (@pantspants) and Twitter account, @Pants, a collection of affirmations perfect for anyone ready to pass through the portal of self-improvement.
£12.33
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Speak of the Devil
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£23.32
HarperCollins Kirbys Lessons for Falling in Love
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£22.94
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sapiens A Graphic History Volume 2
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari?s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution?when humans fell into a trap we?ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if humanity?s major woes?war, plague, famine and inequality?originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of the fantasy of productivity and efficiency? What if by seeking to control plants and animals, humans ended up being controlled by kings, priests, and Kafkaesque bureaucracy? Volume 2 of Sapiens: A Graphic History?The Pillars of Civilization explores a crucial chapter in human development: the Agricultural Revolution. This is the story of how wheat took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, plague, famine, and inequality became an intractable feature of the human condition.But it?s not all doom and gloom with this book?s cast of entertaining characters and colorful humorous scenes. Yuval, Zoe, Prof. Saraswati, Cindy and Bill (now farmers), Detective Lopez, and Dr. Fiction, all introduced in Volume 1, once again travel the length and breadth of human history, this time investigating the impact the Agricultural Revolution has had on our species. The cunning Mephisto shows them how to ensnare humans, King Hammurabi lays down the law, and Confucius explains harmonious society. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy; the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News; the story of urbanization is portrayed as a travel brochure, offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China; and the history of inequality unfolds in a superhero detective story; with guest appearances by historical and cultural personalities throughout such as Thomas Jefferson, Scarlett O''Hara, Margaret Thatcher, and John Lennon.Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 is a radical, witty and colorful retelling of the story of humankind for adults and young adults, and can be read on its own or in sequence with Volume I.
£32.00
HarperCollins Fitting Indian
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£22.94
HarperCollins The History Of Everything
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£21.59
Penguin Putnam Inc Flecha al Sol
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£8.62
Penguin Books Ltd FixIT Picture Puffin
Book SynopsisOne morning Emma gets up early to watch television. But the TV won't work. No one can fix it-not Mom, not Dad, not even the repairman. Neither can a balloon or a song or playing horsey fix Emma's disappointment. But then Emma's mother reads her a book. Read it again, says Emma. And again. And when Emma's father finally realizes what's wrong with the TV-it was just unplugged!-Emma is too busy reading to care. The power of books to enthrall has rarely been presented in such a clever, simple way for the TV-savvy preschool set.
£7.59
Penguin Putnam Inc The Green Glass Sea 1 Gordon Family Saga
Book SynopsisA heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionIt's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all--the gadget. None of them--not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Dewey--know how much the gadget is about to change their lives.
£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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Penguin Putnam Inc Runaway Mummy a Petrifying Parody
Book SynopsisA hysterical (and creepy) parody of a children''s classic! Filled with uproarious illustrations, a beloved classic gets a kindhearted send-up in this utterly monsterized parody from Michael Rex, creator of the New York Times bestselling Goodnight Goon. This is The Runaway Bunny like you''ve never seen it before. Kids will dig the vast array of terrible monsters, but parents will love the sweet sentiment. A fabulous Halloween treat for all those little monsters!
£7.99
Penguin Random House India Terminal 3
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£13.49
Harper Paperbacks Amphigorey Again
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£20.28
MIT Press Ltd The Phantom Scientist
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£20.70
MIT Press The Curie Society Volume 2
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£18.90
Random House USA Inc Xed Out
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£18.66
Random House USA Inc Sugar Skull
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£19.30
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Im So Glad We Had This Time Together
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£24.00
Random House Graphic Babymouse 18 Happy Birthday Babymouse
Book SynopsisMeet Babymouse--the spunky mouse beloved by young readers for more than a decade! You’re all invited to Babymouse’s big birthday event—and we mean BIG! Will she have the most epic birthday ever? This groundbreaking young graphic novel series, full of humor and fun, is a bestseller that’s sold more than three million copies! Move over, Superman, here comes Babymouse!—The Chicago Sun-TimesYou are cordially invited to the birthday event of the year! Babymouse is having a birthday and she wants it to be BIG! Mount Everest BIG. Eiffel Tower BIG. Tyrannosaurus rex BIG. (Okay, maybe inviting a T. rex isn't such a good idea). Will all of Babymouse's birthday dreams come true? Will she have a five-hundred-tier cupcake? Find out in Happy Birthday, Babymouse—the eighteenth hilarious, action-packed installment of the beloved Babymouse graphic novel series by Matthew Holm and Jennifer L. Holm!
£8.23
Random House USA Inc Squish 6 Fear the Amoeba
Book SynopsisAfraid to watch horror movies with his friend, Pod, Squish the amoeba feels better after learning that even comic book superheroes get scared sometimes.
£8.23
Little, Brown & Company PandoraHearts Vol. 19
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling gothic fantasy with an Alice in Wonderland twist!
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Little, Brown & Company Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus
Book Synopsis The ultimate collection from Maximilian Uriarte, author of The New York Times bestselling The White Donkey and creator of the world''s most popular military comic strip. The eagerly awaited Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus will finally deliver the complete collection that fans of the military''s most popular comic strip have been clamoring for. With over 500 strips, the collection will feature hundreds of the serialized comics published on terminallance.com, with additional comics previously published only on Marine Corps Times newspaper, and new, never-before-published comics. The Omnibus also includes Uriarte''s signature blog entries and previously unpublished bonus material. Covering a wide range of topics, including the rules governing the wearing of military uniforms, the most popular (and the most disgusting) MREs, the difficulty of keeping a long-distance relationship alive across thousands of miles, and the struggles marines face upon returning home, Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus provides a hilarious and deeply intelligent look into every aspect of life for American Marines.
£26.05
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Before We Wake a Graphic Novel
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Random House Publishing Group Flight Volume Two
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£21.25
Random House USA Inc The Essential Batman Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to the man behind the mask . . . and the mythology behind the man.“Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible. . . . I shall become a bat!” So declared millionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, orphaned as a boy by a murderous thug and driven as a man to battle the scourge of crime by becoming Batman. Batman swooped into popular culture in 1939-and for nearly seventy years has thrilled audiences in countless comics, live-action and animated television programs, and seven feature films. Prowling the darkened rooftops of Gotham City, roaring through the teeming streets in the sleek, high-powered Batmobile, and leaping into action when the iconic Bat-Signal pierces the night sky, the Caped Crusader is a larger-than-life legend. And now, for the first time in more than thirty years, everything there is to know about Batman-from the beginni
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Random House USA Inc Flight Volume Six
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£19.12
Random House USA Inc Penny Arcade 6 The Halls Below
Book Synopsis FROM UNTOLD STYGIAN DEPTHS, IT RISES Gaze, if you dare, in benumbed awe upon its unfathomably cyclopean dimensions of obsidian impossibility. Cower before its undulating, multitendriled tales of unutterable horror. Receive into trembling hands that which the nameless ancients foretold in dread whispers that echo still across the black and terrible chasm whence forgotten time disgorges its haunted secrets, etc. Behold—the sixth tome of the Penny Arcade cycle! Peer within and find• 2005’s full-color Penny Arcade strips in their behemoth entirety! • The soul-chilling ramblings of its warped, only partially human creators! • And more, which no coherent mind could fathom nor human tongue repeat!
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Random House USA Inc Be Good Little Puppy
Book Synopsis“WHO DARES DISTURB THE CRYPT OF THE IMMORTAL SPACE BITCHES?” The answer may very well be here—along with blatant abuse of Nerf weapons, highly questionable pizza toppings, murderous exploding penguins, shopping-mall zombie mayhem, the ponderous ponderings of Twisp and Catsby, and the libidinous juice machine that shall remain nameless (at least on the book cover)—in the seventh Penny Arcade collection. Inside you’ll find• Every full-color Penny Arcade strip from 2006—along with all-new, supposedly insightful commentary from the genial creators!• Sixteen pages of brand-spanking-new bonus material that’s not to be missed!• The Sorcelator!• And more, from the New York Times bestselling alteregos of those gaming-obsessed, pop-culture hellions Gabe and Tycho!
£12.34
