A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man's immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk. Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining-new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a young Black punk who introduces him to the school outsiders-skaters, unhappy young rebels, caught up in the punk groundswell sweeping the country. A haircut, a few Sex Pistols, Misfits and Black Flag records later: suddenly, James has friends, romantic prospects, and knows the difference between a bass and a guitar. But this desolate landscape hides brutal, building undercurrents: a classmate overdoses, a friend must prove himself to his white supremacist brother and the local Aryan brotherhood through a show of violence. Everything and everyone are set to collide at one of the year's biggest shows in town... Weaving in the Black roots of punk rock and a vivid interlude in the thriving eighties DIY and punk scene in New York's East Village, this is the memoir of a budding punk, artist, and activist. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Spooner, James. Artist Spooner, James.
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Pagina del Previews (MAR/2022): 342
Data di uscita: 18/05/22
From bare-bones wooden toys to plastic interlocking bricks, from a single rectangle on which a child could build a simple house to the ability to recreate the worlds of Harry Potter, Star Wars, Batman, and more, hundreds of millions of people around the world have played with LEGOs, driven around in toy cars at LEGOLAND, and flocked to theaters to watch The LEGO Movie and its sequels. Some have taken their passion into adulthood, building in the late hours when the younger generation has been tucked into bed. As ubiquitous as the LEGO company is, the family behind the brand is an enigma. Now, for the first time, the Kirk Kristiansen family has agreed to tell the story of LEGO and their life's work. Through interviews with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen-who represents the third generation of the family business-and with access to the vast LEGO archive, Jens Andersen takes the reader back to the very beginning of LEGO and chronicles its improbable journey to become the iconic company that it is today. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Andersen, Jens.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2022): 356
Data di uscita: 16/11/22 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
(immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 02/11/12
By Georges, Nicole J.. Artist Georges, Nicole J.. Cover by Georges, Nicole J..
Prezzo di copertina: USD 16,95
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2012): 301
Data di uscita: 23/01/13 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 02/11/12 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' In 1945, George Orwell, called 'the conscience of his generation,' created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes. Today it is all too clear that Orwell's masterpiece is still fiercely relevant wherever cults of personality thrive, truths are twisted by those in power, and freedom is under attack. Now, in this fully authorized edition, the artist Odyr translates the world and message of Animal Farm into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. Old Major, Napoleon, Squealer, Snowball, Boxer, and all the animals of Animal Farm come to life in this newly envisaged classic. From his individual brushstrokes to the freedom of his page design, Odyr's adaptation seamlessly moves between satire and fable and will appeal to all ages, just as Orwell intended. AUTHORIZED ADAPTATION: Created with the full support of the Orwell Estate, this first-ever graphic version is true to the original, using Orwell's words alongside Odyr's images. The actual text is abridged, to enhance the visual experience, but the plot and story remain unchanged. It's an accessible, faithful entry into this twentieth-century masterpiece. A RELEVANT CLASSIC: When the book was first published in 1945, Stalinist Russia was Orwell's target, but today, Animal Farm's message resonates wherever and whenever freedom is attacked and the threat of totalitarianism looms. BEAUTIFUL, GIFTABLE EDITION: Fans of the novel can rediscover Animal Farm and experience it in a new way. The style of art cleverly captures Orwell's era and the events that shaped his life and work while the painterly aesthetic gives it a special feel. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Orwell, George. Artist Odyr,. Cover by Na.
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Pagina del Previews (JUL/2020): 280
Data di uscita: 09/09/20
Now in softcover! Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood - and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 01/02/13
By Bechdel, Alison. Artist Bechdel, Alison. Cover by Bechdel, Alison.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 15,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 14,39
Pagina del Previews (JAN/2013): 319
Data di uscita: 03/04/13 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 01/02/13 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Ariel Schrag, a critically-acclaimed memoirist and screenwriter, takes us on a painfully funny tour of her formative years, from her childhood in Berkeley to her mid-twenties in Brooklyn, exploring what it means to connect to others when you don't yet know who you are-when you want to be 'part of it' but the 'it' changes daily. We meet hippie babysitters, mean girls, best friends, former friends, prom dates, girlfriends, sex ed students, and far too many LensCrafters sales associates. These frank, irreverent, and honest comics revel in the uncomfortable, and occasionally cringe-inducing, moments from our early years that end up wiring us as people. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/10/18
By Schrag, Ariel. Artist Schrag, Ariel. Cover by Schrag, Ariel.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 17,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 16,23
Pagina del Previews (SEP/2018): 342
Data di uscita: 14/11/18
Final Order Cutoff: 05/10/18 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it 'half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel') of the lives, loves, and politics of Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and the rest of the cast of cult-fav characters. Most of them are lesbians, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Bechdel's brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends-academics, social workers, bookstore clerks-fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents. Bechdel fuses high and low culture-from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory-in a serial graphic narrative 'suitable for humanists of all persuasions.' (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Bechdel, Alison. Artist Bechdel, Alison. Cover by Bechdel, Alison.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 18,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 17,13
Pagina del Previews (JUN/2022): 340
Data di uscita: 03/08/22
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/03/21
By Bechdel, Alison. Artist Bechdel, Alison.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 16,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 15,33
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2021): 286
Data di uscita: 10/03/21
Final Order Cutoff: 05/03/21 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix-a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija was there, wearing her 'Don't Pet Me' bandana. Georges's gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing, a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole never successfully taught Beija 'sit,' but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 07/07/17
By Georges, Nicole J.. Artist Georges, Nicole J.. Cover by Georges, Nicole J..
Prezzo di copertina: USD 17,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 16,19
Pagina del Previews (JUN/2017): 389
Data di uscita: 02/08/17
Final Order Cutoff: 07/07/17 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home,' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 07/01/21
By Bechdel, Alison. Artist Bechdel, Alison. Cover by Bechdel, Alison.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 16,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 15,33
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2021): 286
Data di uscita: 17/03/21
Final Order Cutoff: 07/01/21 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ('Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!') to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. The gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/03/21
By Bechdel, Alison. Artist Bechdel, Alison. Cover by Bechdel, Alison.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,55
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2021): 286
Data di uscita: 05/05/21
Final Order Cutoff: 05/03/21 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)