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Discusses the origins of the comic strip characters known as the Fantastic Four and includes several examples of their adventures.

In Montague Terrace, nothing is quite what is seems. Within its boundaries live an array of strange and extraordinary residents, including Paul Gregory, self-exiled pop crooner holed up in his Montague hovel for close to forty years, with only fading memories of a semi-successful music career and a bottle of JD for company. Mrs Beatrice Green, codename Babushka, an aged former special ops agent fighting a new war against overzealous council officials. Marvo the Magic Bunny and Mystical Marvin, a...

Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life: an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high...

In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Told largely from the point of view of middle child Huey - who stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval - Marble Season deftly follows these boys as they navigate their cultural and neighborhood norms. Set against the golden age of...

Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.

Kings in Disguise (ISBN 978 0 393 32848 6) won two Eisner Awards and was hailed by The Guardian as one of the ten best graphic novels of all time. This highly anticipated sequel tells the story of a young man’s coming of age in a world where the capacity to dream may be a fatal flaw. On the Ropes is a breathtaking visual achievement that delivers a powerful, timeless story.

"The first short story collection by the author of Artichoke Tales and Squirrel Mother is finally back in print. Originally published over 12 years ago and long out of print, Megan Kelso's Queen of the Black Black shows a young cartoonist pushing the boundaries of the cartooning vocabulary to tell interior stories of startling and subtle beauty."--from cover, p. [4].

"Six new stories of love, crime, alcohol, and severed heads"--P. [4] of cover.

In the late 1990s, Nathan Tolzmann and his friend Matt took an epic bicycle trip across America to mark the end of their twenties. Beginning from the west coast, they travelled along minor roads through the changing landscapes of one state after another, keeping diaries to record the small towns, countryside campsites and eccentric museums they came across, and the vast space in between. Some 20 years later, Nathan began an even more daunting project: to capture the entire trip in comic-strip fo...

Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.

Humor, fantasy, subtle moments of daily life. Seven experimental comics transform every day scenes into pictures of imagination and vitality. Illustrations are in black and white, with 10-12 pages of the book in three color. Stories included in the collection are Walk, Bathroom, Film,Room Service, Ice Cream, Killers, and Flower Shop. Yi's oversized, curvy nude figures stand out in stark contrast to her often angular backdrops, playing with negative and positive space. Her illustrations are i...

Ditko's Shorts is a fun and incredibly fascinating compilation of short comics one, two and three pages in length. Only a brilliant master could tell a dramatic, compelling tale in such compact form. You'll thrill as Ditko walks this exciting high-wire act without a net! The many stories contained in this hardcover are fast-paced and sport terrific, compelling artwork as only Steve Ditko can draw it! The genres show the artist's great range. There's horror, fantasy, science fiction, western, and...

Spinning out of Winsor McCay’s brilliant early 20th century strip, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland sees King Morpheus’ daughter, in the Royal Palace of Slumberland, select her next-playmate: Nemo! Only Nemo has no interest in being anyone’s playmate, dream or no dream! An all-new tale full of magic and whimsy Winner of the 2015 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.