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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
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Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover the man behind Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang in this imaginative and tender-hearted tribute told in comic-strip format! Charles M. Schulz was arguably the most influential and popular cartoonist of the 20th century, and he poured many of his own emotions and experiences into the world of Peanuts over its iconic 50-year run. Now, Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi pay tribute to the master by telling the story of Schulz's life...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Español
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Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"--From...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time...
9) Memorabilia
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Poised between reality and fantasy, Sergio Ponchione's Memorabilia is a incredibly original ode to the great comic book artists of his youth. In comics form, Ponchione weaves history, speculative fiction, and pure fantasy to create five individual stories that illuminate the art and lives of five of the all time great comic book artists: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Will Eisner, and Richard Corben. Ponchione blends the biographies of each...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From 2017 to 2019, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was creating short stories and illustrations for local magazines and alt-weeklies, to serve as what he calls a personal "survival mechanism." All of these comics, at times both hysterical and tender, are all collected for the first time in 'Please Don't Step On My JNCO Jeans'. When do you know you're too old to trick-or-treat? What's the best way to effectively dispose of those teenage, ode-filled journals?...
Author
Series
Monstrous volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
"Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these...
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Hospital Suite is a landmark work by the celebrated cartoonist and small-press legend John Porcellino--an autobiographical collection detailing his struggles with illness in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1997, John began to have severe stomach pain. He soon found out he needed emergency surgery to remove a benign tumor from his small intestine. In the wake of the surgery, he had numerous health complications that led to a flare-up of his preexisting...
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Knisley is one of the great memoirists of the graphic novel format. Following the completion of her pregnancy memoir Kid Gloves (and the birth of her baby), Lucy embarked on a new project: documenting new motherhood in short, spontaneous little cartoons, which she posted on her Instagram, and which quickly gained her a huge cult following among other moms."--Provided by publisher.
17) Rat time
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Keiler Roberts is a droll documentarian, unfaltering in her ability to find humour and levity in her life's unflattering moments. Pet deaths and parenting, embarrassing childhood memories and mental illness, Roberts documents her daily life's minutiae, its up and downs, with the deftness of an observational comedian. Her comics demonstrate that sometimes life can deal you a punch to the gut, but it doesn't have to be devoid of a punch line."--Publisher's...
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