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Drawn and Quarterly DQ Showcase 5 Book 5 Drawn Quarterly
Book SynopsisThe annual comics anthology of emerging cartoonistsDrawn & Quarterly Showcase is a new-talent anthology and the only annualcollection to have the focused visual acumen of the D+Q editor in chief, Chris Oliveros, who scours the globe for three cartoonists to spotlight and introduce to North American readers. More often than not, it is the first time the cartoonists have had the chance to work in full color with twenty-five pages, and on such a wide-reaching visual platform. The series is hailed for its consistent quality and for the superior editorial vision of its short stories, volume after volume. BookFive features Anneli Furmark (Sweden), Amanda Vähämäki (Finland),and T. Edward Bak (United States), with cover art by Vähämäki. PreviousShowcases have featured Kevin Huizenga, Jeffrey Brown,GenevièveCastrée, Gabrielle Bell, and Nicolas Robel.
£14.58
Drawn and Quarterly Goodbye
Book SynopsisPrepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.-Los Angeles TimesGood-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual top 10 lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist''s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan.Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt directly as a result of World War II: a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained wit
£21.21
Drawn and Quarterly Walt and Skeezix Book Four 19271928 Walt Skeezix
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Drawn and Quarterly Jamilti and Other Stories
Book SynopsisPublished by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds-a tale at once mystery and romance-introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly''s best of lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects the cartoonist''s short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeon and his sanitarium, and a mother back from the dead with dubious healing powers. Others are more attuned to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity, as in the story of a tragic past that lies within a family''s theme hotel, or that of a struggling musician who hopes an upcoming gig will be his big break. In Jamilti, Modan addresses political violence with a suicide bombing that shakes up a day in t
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Drawn and Quarterly Skitzy The Story of Floyd W Skitzafroid
Book SynopsisA graphic novel from the author of the beloved children''s classic CorduroyPublished in the centennial year of Don Freeman''s birth, Skitzy follows a day in the life of a man literally divided between life as an office worker and life as an artist. Without the use of dialogue, his fluid and economical illustrations create an engrossing and fully believable environment, seducing the reader into a familiar world where expressive, gestural drawings explore the possibility of striking a perfect balance between work and play.Floyd W. Skitzafroid''s wife worries that he is culture-starved and overworked, but she is only half right. Shortly after he leaves the house, Floyd splits into two: one a carefree artist, the other a grumpy worker with no time to spare. The contented Floyd quickly evades his morose counterpart in favor of a trip to his studio, sporting a broad grin throughout the day. But while this half paints and walks around pleasantly greetin
£12.99
Drawn and Quarterly Thirteen Going on Eighteen John Stanley Library The John Stanley Library
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Drawn and Quarterly Catland Empire
Book SynopsisPhilip K. Dick comes to Saturday Morning TVCatland Empire by Keith Jones is a graphic novel that is a melding of a Philip K. Dick novel and a Saturday morning cartoon. There will exist a future world where human beings have become empty husks stripped of all memory when it comes to things like how to have fun and play games, or so says Mr. Space to his associate Mr. Time. The solution? Get the cats to teach humans how to have fun again. This is all the Cat People do with their lives. They are the fun and game masters.What follows is a tangled web of psychedelic science fiction blending anti-consumerist politics and intergalactic liaisons between cats and dogsbitter enemies kept secret from each other to avoid a planetary race war. Victor Burg is plotting to wipe out all of mankind by having his brain-chipimplanted drones commit genocide.
£18.04
Drawn and Quarterly Nancy v 2 The John Stanley Library
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£23.96
Drawn and Quarterly Market Day
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Fanfare Guardians Of The Louvre
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£29.54
Cloudscape Comics Halfsoul Part 1 Tale
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£999.99
Archaia Jim Hensons A Tale of Sand HC
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£19.99
Boom! Studios Rust Volume 1
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£18.04
Archaia The Reason for Dragons
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£14.24
What Happened on the Garden Street Bus
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£19.89
Outland Entertainment Kings Canvas
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£19.76
Gungnir Entertainment Last Breeds
Book SynopsisGenetic manipulation has poisoned the ecosystem of the earth. Since the Unraveling, no newbornlives past puberty and earth is a warring, wild land. To create the cure, a reclusive madman and his animal army must kill their way west to save agirl that might unlock the door to the future. Bale, heir to the Gencore corporation fortune, has turned his back on both family and companyafter they caused the collapse of civilization. Now, he lives in a compound with a zoo's worth ofhalf-tame predator animals who are his only friends. When a mysterious woman offers Bale the chance to restore the world by aiding her quest tosave the only teenager anyone has seen for a decade, Bale becomes a reluctant savior. He agreesto escort the women, leading a pack of wild beasts on a quest across a dangerous, dystopianAmerica. Will they survive the journey? Is it already too late?
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Gungnir Chupracabra
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Black Panel Press Inc He Lost His Keys in Space
Book SynopsisEarth's first and worst ambassador, Vega Ulysses, has freshly completed a tumultuous twelve year mission of galactic diplomacy, paid off his mortgage, and can finally return home to Earth. There's just one problem-- he lost his keys in space!Now, with his reluctant crew of outsiders in tow, Vega must retrace his steps, searching wild, diverse planets teeming with hostile aliens, silly robots and rude cosmic entities-- all forcing him to confront the havoc he has wreaked while haphazardly advancing Earth's selfish, consumerist agenda. A delirious take on sci-fi cartoons of the eighties, He Lost His Keys in Space reads like an entire animated series in a book. A darkly funny satire of the most ridiculed planet in the universe: Earth!
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Wattpad Books Acception Volume Two
£13.11
L'Association PyongYang
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£33.06
Kodansha Uchu Kyodai 1
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£13.21
Prh Grupo Editorial Sí...cariño Yes...Dear
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£11.66
Roca Editorial Internet sublime Sublime Internet
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Prh Grupo Editorial Todo bajo el sol Salamandra Graphic Spanish
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£22.98
Principal de Los Libros Corazón Y Cerebro
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£21.83
Editorial Hidra Dragon Busca Casa 1
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£16.22
Redbook Cómics de Los 90: Una Nueva Generación
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£24.22
Maeva Intrusos
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£25.63
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC Bulletproof Heart
£64.43
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El rey de Os The King of Os
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£16.72
Ediciones Akal Paso a las mujeres
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£999.99
Grupo Editorial Bruno, S.L. Asterix in Spanish: El hijo de Asterix
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£16.81
Grupo Editorial Bruno, S.L. Asterix in Spanish: El Menhir de Oro
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£19.00
Combel Ediciones Editorial Esin, S.A. Un Caso Dificil: Volume 21
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£14.53
Prh Grupo Editorial Leñadoras. Lumberjanes Cuidado con el gatete
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£17.58
Roca Editorial El Buen Padre
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£25.03
Penguin Random House Group Wind in the Willows The Campfire Graphic Novels
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£13.49
Anjana Publishing Amma Tell Me about Diwali
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£12.79
Fantagraphics Books Murderburg
£25.92
Fantagraphics Books Secrets of a Lost Diary
£21.84
Fantagraphics Books Kafkas Manuscript
£17.68
