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An author struggles to understand an encounter on the subway that has led her to romantic despair. Six characters embark on a dangerous voyage, searching for a mysterious treasure.A cartoon character finds himself in bizarre yet uncannily familiar scenarios.Three characters obsess over the same image and sense that their lives connect across generations.Novelistic worlds in miniature. Hilarious hijinks. The occasional twist ending... The stories in Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure are inventive and wide-ranging, sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and always offbeat.The New York Times called Matt Madden a "stuntman-philosopher" because he creates comics in the crucible of formal constraints - one comic is a visual palindrome, another maps on to the letters of the alphabet, several follow the rules of demanding poetic forms like the villanelle and the haiku. It may seem that strict limitation would stymie creativity; on the contrary, the massive pressure it exerts on the author's process bonds atoms of text and image together into comic diamonds that Booklist has called "formally rigorous and narratively lucid." Madden is an educator and evangelist for experimental comics. This book contains an extensive afterword that walks through all the game-like rules he used in the stories in this collection. He offers insights into how he turned the shackles of these complex constraints into a source of inspiration and ingenuity. If you want to explore new creative challenges, you'll leave this book eager to work on forging your narrative jewels.

A teenager in 1945 is suffocated by post- WWII nationalism. A tireless doctor in 1955 desperately tries to find the origin of a new illness. Though these two people are living seemingly disparate lives, decades apart, they will come to understand that their fates are irrevocably intertwined by a rare, horrifying sickness and an enigmatic figure who follows wherever they go. He is known only as The Man.Confined within their eras, they each race against time to escape The Man and find a cure before The Sickness collapses their worlds.This rich and disturbing comic spans four decades of American history to serve as a reminder that the terrors of yesterday are the terrors of today. A sprawling, ambitious, and genre-bending work exploring the socio-political strife that shaped the nation. It’s the crossbreed of I Love Lucy-era pop culture and bizarre body horror in a historical horror epic.

From a multiple-award-winning cartoonist, Noah Van Sciver, comes Maple Terrace, a new autobiographical graphic novel. Based on the author's childhood, Maple Terrace unfolds a tale of big money comic-collecting craze of the early 90s as seen from the ground floor. In a time when superheroes were oversized, adorned with massive guns, and countless pouches, comic books were currency! Young investors struggled to collect every cover gimmick under the sun—embossed-metallic ink-holographic foil—hoping they someday would pay for their college education. Brutally hilarious, Maple Terrace shines a light on the strange intersection between poverty and speculative comic book craze of the 90s.

A god and a fool walk into a bar... In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks our present-day culture. But in pre-Christian times, pagan pantheons included holy clowns precariously positioned at the right side of the main deity. Among many tributes paid to gods, at least one ritual was reserved for the trickster who destroyed the world order only to rebuild it refreshed and new.What if the priest and the jester are enemies only because they are siblings? What if they are two sides of the same social taboos? When we put gods on pedestals, we also expose them to communal mockery. When we laugh at clowns, we worship their disregard for social convention. Lunacek's Holy Fools and Funny Gods skillfully blends philosophy with the irreverence of the comics medium into a treatise that is both hilarious and profound.

"What prevents you from finishing your life's work? Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age 35) and his father's struggle with single parenthood. When he attempts to adapt the play into comics, it triggers a series of personal crises. Bayer's limitations and futile ambitions are brought into sharp relief as he grapples with an estranged, unknowable parent and the play's frustrating lack of resolution. Humans worship lore, myth, and fables, but many people's unwritten stories become abandoned. This book looks at the dreams we leave to that abyss and asks, "why?" Bayer's inky line, tangled textures, and kaleidoscopic color boldly fuse on the page into comic book semiotics, flights of grandeur, and tangents inside tangents"--

Pill Hill, Nicholas Breutzman's darkly funny and utterly heartbreaking memoir, plunges the reader into a world of horrifying Tinder dates, flea markets, lizard people, child protective services, black holes, time travel, and stress-induced psychosis.Nic and Henry—father and son—stumble on an old forgottenpark and make a bizarre discovery. Someone marked all the trees with wads ofchewed gum! Who is the gum bandit?Reeling from recent family upheaval, Nic navigates the bravenew world of single parenthood. Meanwhile, his ex-wife descends into addiction,abuse, and homelessness. Amid the turmoil, he becomes increasingly anddesperately obsessed with exposing the gum vandal. Can Nic rise to the occasionand come to terms with his new reality? Or will he let the past drag him backinto despair and denial, threatening the thing he holds most dear: hisrelationship with Henry, his son?

A retiree dedicates his days to combing a dense, snow-covered forest in pursuit of the unknown, and his nights to reminiscing about his wife. Old Caves is a peek through a frost-covered window at isolation, obsession, and the slow erosion of relationships. The high contrast black and white art enhances the sense of absolute solitude. Old Caves is one of the best looking graphic novel debuts in recent memory.

Greek myth has inspired stories and art for millennia. And yet some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators. Framing the narrative is the story of a poet struggling with his act of Creation, hoping to transform nothingness into beauty. His struggles parallel the tales of primordial beings, from the ambitions of formless Chaos to the birth of the first Olympian, Aphrodite.Based on Hesiod's Theogony and other classic sources, First There Was Chaos synthesizes fragmentary myths into a compelling narrative accessible to a contemporary audience.

I Nina is a graphic novel adaptation of Nobel and Man Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's book Anna in the Tombs of the World. The story is based on the ancient Sumerian myth of Goddess Innana's journey into the Underworld. Daniel Chmielewski deftly transports the narrative into a near-future dystopia where humanity survives in a hermetically sealed multi-level world. As society slowly decays under a 'social currency' regime, Nina, 'no-one,' becomes the focus of long-buried revolutionary energies that could change everything. Daniel's 'must be seen to be believed' art was awarded the Polish Comics Society Prize for Best Artist. Evoking classic works of Enki Bilal and Moebius, I Nina is a provocative science-fiction graphic novel for the present age.

Prometheite reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a lesbian romantic tragedy. Two young women, Aveline and Violet, meet at the University of Ingolstadt and quickly bond over their interest in anatomy, the occult, and one another. But, before their love can fully bloom, Aveline dies. Violet resorts to dark sciences to keep the forbidden romance alive and resurrects Aveline. But all is not well. Aveline suspects something unnatural about her life as Violet struggles to keep the resurrection a secret. Will toying with the forces of nature doom their forbidden relationship? Prometheite is Ari Mulch's first graphic novella.

Part of the popular Comics Journalism genre, popularized by the likes of Joe Sacco, Guy Delisle, Sarah Glidden, and others.The first graphic novel about Colombia, its history, and current political situation.Fills an important gap in graphic novels by and for Latino readers.Great resource for high schools and colleges that want to use graphic novels in teaching the history of Colombia and South America in general.

Sophie Yanow's concise, smart, and politically engaged cartoon history reveals the buried connections between urban planning and urban warfare.

Who knew Gabrielle Bell could be so funny!

The first full-length Graphic Memoir from one of the masters of the form.

In his most personal work, Joann Sfar brings Pascin--the Jewish modernist painter--to life as the ultimate bohemian.

A young girl explores an ancient city and grapples with strange creatures and the amnesia of an entire civilization.

"One of the best things going in auto-bio inflected comics these days." -- Art Spiegelman, Maus

A cockroach landed Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani in jail and turned his life upside down.

"A classic-in-the-making."--The Onion

The highly anticipated continuation of the first volume of Incidents in the Night.

An awesome treasury of facts so fake they seem real.

1. Dash Shaw is one of the brightest talents in graphic novels and in animation. He is known for a unique and uncompromising vision.2. New Realities is the first critical assessment of Dash Shaw's art.3. New Realities is coming out in the same season as Shaw's Discipline, his highest profile graphic novel yet, published by Penguin.4. New Realities is coming out in the same season as Shaw's new animated film, Crypto Zoo (release this fall).5. Dash Shaw will be the subject of a media campaign related to the other works, and our book will be part of that.6. There are plans for festival appearances (covid dependent of course), and several virtual events, and podcast appearances.