Kim Thompson
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Two teenaged punk-rock girls hitchhike their way across Italy without a penny in their pockets. Set in 1984, Ulli Lust's Today is the last day of the rest of your life is an intimate, detailed, funny, touching, and dramatic chronicle of several eventful months in the life of the author as she and her new best friend Edi make their way from Vienna, Austria to Sicily. There is sex. There are drugs. There is rock 'n' roll. And there are stints in jail,...
2) Lost cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to - and what do you do if you lose that person?
Author
Series
Ralph Azham ; 1
Publisher
Super Genius
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After failing the test of the Chosen One as a young duck, Ralph had a tough time growing up as the village pariah, often getting into trouble due to an innate extra sense that's rather unbelievable, embarrassing, and unfortunate. That was only compounded by the constant visit of spirits that only he, Ralph, could see. Cut to today, his village is threatened by a vicious Horde, an apocalyptic flood may take the life of Ralph's only supporter, his...
4) Nymph
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
July 2020.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious, tiny being upsets the balance of the Burnt Spruce Forest. A lone, defenseless pupa drifts down from the sky. An assembly of talking birds and trees agree to protect "Bitsy" as she begins to metamorphose--but into what? As the humanoid creature starts showing a predilection for flight and music, magical clues start unveiling themselves. Nymph gets to the heart of both human and Mother Nature to prove that, to raise a childlike larva,...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Five years ago, little Gwenny's father found, inside a bottle, a map with instructions on how to reach the mysterious Isle of 100,000 Graves and its legendary treasures-- and then he vanished. Now Gwenny, having stumbled across another bottle-shipped map, enlists the dubious help of a shipful of pirates, sets out to find the island, and her long-lost dad. Little does she realize that the Isle comes by its ominous name honestly, as the location of...
11) Billie Holiday
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence ...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation,...