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Yen Press Mono Vol. 2
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Yen Press The Ragnarok System of the Desperate Reincarnated Demon Lord and the Seven Aggressive Maidens Vol. 2
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Yen Press A Witchs Life in Mongol Vol. 2
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Yen Press Immortality and Punishment Vol. 1
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Yen Press The Girl Past the Filters Vol. 1
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Yen Press The 31st Consort Vol. 3
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Yen Press Phantom Invasion Vol. 2
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Yen Press Animan Vol. 1
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Yen Press MONSTER TRIBE Vol. 2 manga
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Yen Press Kakegurui Compulsive Gambler Vol. 19
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Idea & Design Works The Rocketeer In the Den of Thieves
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Alchemist A Graphic Novel
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 6
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 7
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Speak of the Devil
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Techies Unite
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of approximately 220 strips of Peter Zale's comic strip - "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet".
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Vintage Publishing Bye Bye Birdie
Book SynopsisShirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over fifty books, which have sold more than eleven million copies. Her characters Alfie and Dogger are loved by children and parents all over the world.Bye Bye Birdie is Shirley Hughes'' first graphic book for adults. A young man, in his best bow-tie and boater, meets a fashionably dressed - and rather bird-like - young lady. But when he takes her home she undergoes a transformation and our hero''s dreams of connubial bliss suddenly turn into the stuff of nightmares.Totally wordless, Bye Bye Birdie showcases Shirley Hughes'' brilliant drawing and her extraordinarily vivid imagination.
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Vintage Publishing Pentti and Deathgirl
Book SynopsisEmma Rendel is one of the most distinctive and original graphic artists at work today. She joins the Cape list with the extraordinary Pentti and Deathgirl, two strange tales in one beautiful volume.''Pentti'' is the story of two Finnish brothers, Juha and Pentti. When two men move in next to their farm, Pentti is convinced they must be gay. ''So what?'' says Juha, but Pentti, full of drink and righteous anger, storms off into town looking for a fight.''Deathgirl''s Diary'' tells of Deathgirl, lonely and friendless, talking only to her diary, where she confides her obsessions: stabbing, beheading, poisoning...Trade ReviewSomething incredibly dark lurks behind Emma Rendel's jaunty characters and nimble artwork; something shrewdly and deftly captured. It's a brilliant read - sinister and amusing in equal measures -- Hannah Berry, author of Britten & BrulightlyThere is a lovely black humour within the horror * www.bookbag.co.uk *
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Random House UK Montague Terrace
Book SynopsisIn Montague Terrace, nothing is quite what is seems. Within its boundaries live an array of strange and extraordinary residents, including Paul Gregory, self-exiled pop crooner holed up in his Montague hovel for close to forty years, with only fading memories of a semi-successful music career and a bottle of JD for company. Mrs Beatrice Green, codename Babushka, an aged former special ops agent fighting a new war against overzealous council officials. Marvo the Magic Bunny and Mystical Marvin, a pair of down-on-their luck entertainers, shielding a disturbing past. The Puppeteer, toiling away day and night, pulling the strings of world events and causing chaos out of order. Landlocked sailors, fake pet psychics, hounded inventors and randy postmen. Welcome to Montague Terrace...Trade ReviewThis is the kind of comic that demands the reader pay close attention; clues and satirical in-jokes lurk in the corner of every frame. It’s also...a book you will want to start reading again almost as soon as you’ve finished… The Pleece brothers’ black and white drawings...have an energy that pulls you along. Their story gets under your skin. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *Confidently written – and inked… It’s terrific dip-in-and-out-of entertainment. -- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh * Metro *It’s anyone’s guess what the commissioning editors are smoking in the graphic novels department of Jonathan Cape, but when the results are this interesting, why inquire?... Total Lynchian disorder… What style! -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *The Pleeces have fun with madness- both the ‘cap’ and the mental variety, with a deliberate muddying of the line between reality and the psychological. * Forbidden Planet *A bleak, if intermittently joyful, mix of social and magical realism, it offers a snapshot of 21st-century stupidity and selfishness. -- Colin Smith * Q Magazine *
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Vintage Publishing Eustace
Book SynopsisPoor Eustace is not very well. Convalescing in bed, his world is confined to the four walls of his grand and gloomy room. His days are spent in wild imaginings, punctuated by the occasional visit from his mother and a legion of Aunties, who fuss and smother Eustace.But then his wicked uncle arrives in a cloud of pipe smoke, accompanied by a swelling cast of prostitutes, hoodlums, drunkards and assorted hangers-on. Suddenly Eustace finds himself transformed from invalid to the star of a glittering and decadent social scene, serving drinks and holding court from his enormous bed. That is, until his Uncle''s past begins to catch up with him...Eustace is blackly comic, surreal and exquisitely rendered. It marks the debut of a brilliant new graphic novelist.Trade ReviewA strong debut with a compelling style... One of the particular joys reading comics offers is the chance of synchronicity between artistic style and thematic elements, and Harris offers that in abundance. -- Alex Hern * New Statesman *Surreal and enjoyable. -- James Smart * Guardian *Shades of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey twine tantalisingly about Eustace, the blackly comic debut by Londoner S. J. Harris. Harris’ angular stylistics and feathered pencil work is outstanding. -- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh * Metro *There’s a sniff of the great Robert Aickman in the mix of brittle comedy with murky sexual threat, and the whole thing is beautifully conceived and illustrated. Disturbingly confident, too, in its refusal to quite make sense. -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *The darkness in Eustace creeps up on you unexpectedly. * The Skinny *
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Vintage Publishing The Great Book of Mobile Talk
Book SynopsisOverheard mobile pronouncements are a modern phenomenon. In the street, in the park, in supermarkets, buses, waiting rooms and even, heaven help us, in libraries, it's quite impossible to get away from these tasty or repellent fragments of other people's private lives. Wherever you lurk, their outbursts of despair or irritation ring out: mega-tantrums, in-jokes, celebrity spottings, instant post-mortems, office politics, whoops of joy and anger, weather reports, devilishly dull domestic details, parental problems, health issues, holiday plans, money matters, dinner menus, ultimatums, gossip, sporting news, amorous overtures, business deals and any number of time-wasting pleasantries.From the stunningly mundane to the shockingly direct, the sublime to the ridiculous, here is a brilliantly curated collection of overheard mobile conversational gems.Trade ReviewDozens of shouty (and occasionally whispered) one-sided conversations, all of which have been turned from annoying to hilarious thanks to a sublime collaboration between two very beady talents. * The Guardian *Beautifully illustrated… it will strike a chord, even if it seems a bit unfair to strip the ordinary things people say then put them in a book, all the while scoffing at them for not being worthy of putting in a book. Still, that's Christmas for you -- Toby Clements * Telegraph *A modern curse is turned into a treasure trove of strangers' words -- Ben Felsenburg * Metro *Great only in the sense of being darn good, this is a tiny, beautifully produced volume -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *
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Vintage Publishing Please God Find Me A Husband
Book SynopsisSimone Lia''s Fluffy is one of the best-loved books on the Cape graphic novel list. As her new book opens we find her in Leicester Square. She''s just been dumped by her boyfriend and she''s talking to God, telling Him that she''s nearly thirty-four and if He wants her to get married He''d better get a move on. Amazingly, God sends a reply, prompting Simone to plan an ''Adventure with God'' that starts with a fortnight in a nunnery, then takes her to Australia in search of a hermit. The one she finds proves a disappointment, unlike Brett, the handsome horseman who takes her riding. She thinks he looks just like Crocodile Dundee; he thinks she looks just like Penelope Cruz. Is this the man she''s been searching for, or is God making fun of her? Funny, touching and even occasionally profound, Please God Find Me a Husband! will be essential reading for spinsters, seekers after enlightenment and lovers of the very best graphic novels.Trade ReviewHugely entertaining…the comic book equivalent of getting pleasantly squiffy on communion wine (or so I imagine) -- Teddy Jamieson * Herald *Please God, Find Me a Husband! explains what it is like to be an ordinary person of faith struggling with singleness in a way that is both moving and honest, witty and endearing, as well as accessible and appealing to a wide audience of all faiths and none. * Third Way *Please God Find Me A Husband! Published by Jonathan Cape is an autobiographical… * Irish Post *Please God Find Me a Husband! Explains what it is like to be an ordinary person of faith struggling with singleness in a way that is both moving and honest, witty and endearing, as well as accessible and appealing to a wide audience of all faiths and none -- Sarah Dean * Third Way *
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Vintage Publishing The Bind
Book SynopsisThe Bind charts the rise and fall of Egret Bindings, once the most prestigious firm of bookbinders in London.In 1910 brothers Guy and Victor Egret take on an ambitious commission: a deluxe, jewelled binding of a collection of poems, A Moonless Land. It proves to be a moment of hubris. The work triggers their ruin, watched by the disapproving spirit of their father, Garrison Egret.A darkly humorous tale of sibling rivalry and creative one-upmanship, The Bind shows once again that William Goldsmith is an incomparable storyteller and a marvellously inventive artist.Trade ReviewI had to read the book twice to make quite sure that I had understood it. This, though, was a pleasure rather than a chore. And I am already looking forward to reading the book for a third time. -- Matthew Sturgis * Oldie *William Goldsmith’s second graphic novel takes the reader to another world -- James Smart * Guardian *As natural a storyteller as he is a dazzling illustrator… The result is utterly delicious, a gripping story that is beautiful to behold. -- Neel Mukherjee * New Statesman *
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Random House UK Lucia
Book SynopsisLucia is a hard town, full of hard people. It stands looking out across the unforgiving sea that is slowly swallowing it. Its people are all unemployed, with nothing to live for but a pint and fight. Among them are Brick and Morty, one a disabled, heartbroken divorcee and aspiring writer, the other his best friend and protector, a fantasist and aspiring Ultimate Fighting Welterweight Champion of the world.
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Vintage Publishing If
Book SynopsisIn his daily cartoon for the Guardian and his long-running strip, IF, in the same paper, Steve Bell has proved that he is without equal in Britain as political cartoonist. Savage, funny, rude, constantly transgressing the rules of good taste, and of course beautifully drawn his cartoons are hated by those they lampoon and loved by everyone who likes to see authority subverted. In his new collection he covers the years of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, 2010-2015, fertile ground for Bell's genius. From George Osborne in his bondage gear, the Quiet Man' zombie Ian Duncan Smith, Cable the elephant, Cameron the talking condom and Clegg the butler to Kipling and the IF penguins, every awful moment of the coalition years is re-run before your eyes but Steve Bell style: outrageous, anarchic, brilliant, sometimes inexplicable and a bit mad (not really)' to quote John Pilger.Trade Review"Something to sing and shout about." -- Neel Mukherjee Independent
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Lulu.com 1000 Facts about Comic Book Characters Vol. 3
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Lulu Press Transformation A Personal Journey Through the British Transformers Comic Volume 2 19871989
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