Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen

Author: Dylan Horrocks
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606997904
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998’s Hicksville. Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn’t drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds a mysterious old comic book set on Mars and is suddenly thrown headlong into a wild, fantastic journey through centuries of comics, stories, and imaginary worlds. Accompanied by a young webcomic creator named Alice and an enigmatic schoolgirl with rocket boots and a bag full of comics, Sam goes in search of the Magic Pen, encountering sex-crazed aliens, medieval monks, pirates, pixies and ― of course ― cartoonists. Funny, erotic, and thoughtful, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen explores the pleasures, dangers, and moral consequences of fantasy.

Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen

Author: Dylan Horrocks
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9780864739759
Category : Cartoonists
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A burned-out superhero comic artist goes on an adventure that spans time and space with two female companions."

Hicksville

Author: Dylan Horrocks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864736246
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Hidden in a quiet corner of New Zealand's East Cape is a town where the beach is sunny, the tea is hot, the locals are friendly, and everyone loves comics. This internationally acclaimed New Zealand graphic novel is a wryly funny story about the dangerous business of art and a haunting meditation on longing and regret, on getting lost and finding your way home. With a new introduction by the author. First New Zealand edition.

Incomplete Works

Author:
Publisher: Alternative Comics
ISBN: 1681485486
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Daydreams, fantasy, true love and procrastination feature strongly in this marvelous selection of Dylan Horrocks's shorter comics. Running from 1986 to 2012, Incomplete Works is both the chronicle of an age and a portrait of one man's heroic struggle to get some work done. From the creator of Hicksville and Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen. Nominated for a 2017 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album—Reprint

The Names of Magic

Author: Dylan Horrocks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840234688
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
Tim Hunter, destined to become the world's most powerful magician, is on a quest to find out who he really is. He must find out before his enemies destroy him. In a graphic novel format. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

The Adventures of Red Sonja Vol. 3

Author: Roy Thomas
Publisher: Dynamite
ISBN: 1933305983
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Featuring issues of the original Marvel Comics series, each page has been re-mastered for this volume! Plus, legendary Red Sonja writer and former Editor-in-Chief, Roy Thomas, provides an introduction!

Kid Gloves

Author: Lucy Knisley
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250247454
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
A New York Times bestseller If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery. This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

The Joe Shuster Story

Author: Julian Voloj
Publisher: Super Genius
ISBN: 1545801924
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Everyone knows Superman, but not everyone knows the story of two youngsters from Cleveland who created Superman. Based on archival material and original sources, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Joe Shuster Story" tells the story of the friendship between writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster, and puts it into the wider context of the American comicbook industry.

BTTM FDRS

Author: Ezra Claytan Daniels
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683962060
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny, scary, and thought provoking, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters―both metaphoric and real―that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today.

The Dharma Punks

Author: Ant Sang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894994965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Set over one long night in Auckland New Zealand in 1994, a group of anarchist punks have hatched a plan to sabotage the opening of a multi-national fast-food restaurant by blowing it sky-high come opening day. Chopstick has been given the unenviable task of setting the bomb before the opening, but the night takes the first of many unexpected turns when he is separated from his accomplice. Chance encounters and events from his past conspire against him, forcing Chopstick to deal with more than just the mission at hand. Still reeling after the death of a close friend, and struggling to reconcile his spiritual path with his political actions, Chopstick's journey is a meditation on life, love, friendship and the ghost of Kurt Cobain.