The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Essex County trilogy of graphic novels, set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown in Ontario, Canada. Follow a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming community's traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients, the story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and past, and finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together to quilt a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. An amazing finish to the trilogy, and a story in its own right..
Graphic Novels by : IDW – Top Shelf
Tag: Fiction
Little Book of Horror: Frankenstein HC
The first title in a series of specially sized, hardcover collectible classics! In this special re-telling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , writer Steve Niles (Wake the Dead) works from the original text of the novel, presenting the tale in prose excerpts, each accompanied by a full-page spread from award-winning illustrator Scott Morse..
Horror Graphic Novels by : IDW Publishing
Octopus Rises HC Novel
The first collection of literary short fiction from acclaimed Seattle novelist Ryan Boudinot ranges from experimental fiction, absurdist farce, paranoid futurism to stinging satire. A few of the 14 stories have appeared in McSweeney's, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade and elsewhere but most have never been collected until now..
Books by : Fantagraphics
Maus A Survivor's Tale TPB Vol. 01 – My Father Bleeds History
Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize! Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. Moving back and forth from Poland to Rego Park, New York, Maus tells two powerful stories. The first story is Spiegelman's father's account of how he and his wife survived Hitler's Europe, a harrowing tale filled with countless brushes with death, improbable escapes, and the terror of confinement and betrayal; the second is the author's tortured relationship with his aging father as they try to lead a normal life of minor arguments and passing visits against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At all levels, this is the…….
Award Winners Graphic Novels by : Raw Books And Graphics
Frumpy the Clown TPB Vol. 2: The Fat Lady Sings
Frumpy is not your typical clown. He doesn't do birthday parties, he isn't in the circus, and he's never run for public office. Instead, Frumpy is a chain-smoking, cynical anarchist who is more interested in sticking it to the stuffed-shirt establishment than making balloon animals or performing in the center ring. Whether he's filling in for the elementary school music teacher, dishing legal advice to the kids, or going paintballing with the guys, Frumpy entertains, enlightens and always surprises. Judd Winick's early newspaper work tells of one clown's attempts to assimilate into suburban life, or at least get suburban life to assimilate to him..
Graphic Novels by : Oni Press
Love and Rockets New Stories TPB Vol. 07
The seventh volume of Love and Rockets: New Storiesfinds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip to visit a 'sick friend' while Ray visits some old sick friends of his own. Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Fritz as Morgan Le Fey teams up with Aladdin; a WWII sci-fi thriller and 'Daughters and Mothers and Daughters,' in which flashbacks to Luba's mother Maria reveal how old secrets affect their family today..
Graphic Novels by : Fantagraphics
Our Expanding Universe TPB
Alex Robinson returns with a "spiritual sequel" to his Eisner-winning debut Box Office Poison! It's been 15 years since the young cast of that beloved drama has graced the stage. Now, Our Expanding Universe introduces another Robinson ensemble to explore how time can transform a group of friends. Marriage, children, affairs, divorce… and that's just the beginning!.
Graphic Novels by : IDW Publishing
Osamu Tezuka's Buddha TPB Vol. 2: The Four Encounters
Clyde Fan HC Book 1
A compelling look at the life of two electric fan salesman, both brothers, and their fan manufacturing company by master cartoonist Seth. After one more disastrous attempt at selling, Simon returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he'll do next. Even after studying manuals on the art of selling, he still can't seem to clinch that final deal. In the eyes of his brother Abraham, he is a failure. Here, Seth brilliantly explores the complex and fascinating relationship of the two brothers behind Clyde Fans..
Graphic Novels by : Drawn and Quarterly
Scott Pilgrim GN Vol. 01 Precious Little Life
Scott Pilgrim's life is so awesome. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs", and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties.. Start at the beginning with this first volume of Scott Pilgrim's stories..
Girl Power Graphic Novels by : Oni Press