Don't take the title as a metaphor: it really is the worst book ever. Governor General Literary Award winning children's book author and illustrator Elise Gravel takes readers on an unexpected journey through the world's most boring book. The story's characters and omniscient readers alike quickly become annoyed by the author's bland imagination and rebel against her tired tropes and stale character choices, spouting sass in an attempt to get her attention and steer the narrative in a more interesting direction. With Gravel's signature goofy characters behind the wheel, no silly twist or rude body function is off the table! (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 08/03/19
By Gravel, Elise. Artist Gravel, Elise. Cover by Gravel, Elise. (NOTE: Item advance solicited for May 2019 on sale.)
Prezzo di copertina: USD 17,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 16,19
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2019): 296
Data di uscita: 29/05/19
Final Order Cutoff: 08/03/19 (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 heartwrenching memoir of a daughter losing her father and a scathing indictment of the medical industry Arizona grieves at the hospital bed of her father, a man she hardly knew, brain dead after a fentanyl overdose. Doctors encourage her to act quickly to recast him as a hero. Distraught, Arizona makes a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life. As she struggles to come to terms with her father’s death and her role as next of kin in making his life’s last decision, she uncovers inconvenient truths about the organ donation industry’s own codependence on the opioid crisis. Her parents were bohemian wild kids of 90s Montreal. He was a talented skateboarder, charming guitarist, and visual artist. She was an aspiring writer and outcast. They lived with other teenagers in the Plateau in a messy apartment filled with drugs, alcohol, and black-market animals. The city’s macabre history—McGill Medical School, the Mount Royal Cemetery, ancient cadavers at the Maude Abbott Medical Museum—takes center stage as Arizona sorts out fact from fiction. Opioids and Organs is a damning critique of an industry that takes advantage of society’s outcasts. A muted yet striking pastel palette and a dolllike fantastical elegance belie both the gruesomeness of the book’s topic and the rage of its author. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 16/03/26
By Arizona O'Neill. Artist Arizona O'Neill. Cover by Arizona O'Neill.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 30,00
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 27,07
Data di uscita: 20/05/26
Final Order Cutoff: 16/03/26 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Since the character of Monsieur Jean first walked onto the page in 1998, he has endeared himself to readers, maturing with each frantic, surreal, heart-warming episode. Beginning as a young Parisian bachelor, defeatist writer, and urban bon vivant, Jean has reluctantly transitioned into a family man of forty, learning how to live with, and ultimately love those around him unconditionally. Constantly surrounded by a group of childhood classmates, an unbearably idealistic live-in friend Felix and his adopted son, Eugene, as well as his sweet daughter Julie, Jean questions life and those of others in an honest and endearing way; his unmistakable joie de vivre always undermined by a palpable sense of cynicism. The joy of these award-winning cartoons stems from that fact that Jean's weaknesses are our own; his doubts about life, universal; his relentless quest for happiness understood. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 03/11/17
By Dupuy, Philippe. Artist Berberian, Charles. Cover by Berberian, Charles.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (OCT/2017): 343
Data di uscita: 27/12/17
Final Order Cutoff: 03/11/17 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips. Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 06/02/20
By Beaton, Kate. Artist Beaton, Kate. Cover by Beaton, Kate.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 19,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 18,00
Pagina del Previews (MAR/2020): 300
Data di uscita: 15/04/20
Final Order Cutoff: 06/02/20 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid zip-a-tone, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Superman to Peanuts. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 15/09/11
By Sikoryak, R.. Artist Sikoryak, R.. Cover by Sikoryak, R..
Prezzo di copertina: USD 19,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 18,00
Pagina del Previews (OCT/2011): 288
Data di uscita: 23/11/11
Final Order Cutoff: 15/09/11 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. No era nor tome is left unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western World's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. In just four years, Beaton has taken the comics world by storm with her non sequiturs, cheeky comebacks, and irreverent punch lines. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 10/10/19
By Beaton, Kate. Artist Beaton, Kate. Cover by Beaton, Kate.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 19,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 18,00
Pagina del Previews (NOV/2019): 279
Data di uscita: 15/01/20
Final Order Cutoff: 10/10/19 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Now collected in an omnibus paperback, John Stanley's Melvin Monster is about a good-natured monster boy whose sweet personality belies his monstrous appearance. Gag after gag, the acclaimed mid-century cartoonist Stanley sets Melvin up in fairly quotidian situations that spiral into hilarious ridiculousness, with a ferociously frenetic comedic timing. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Stanley, John. Artist Stanley, John. Cover by Stanley, John.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,51
Pagina del Previews (MAR/2025): 276
Data di uscita: 12/04/25 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
A Bubble is the stunning board book drawn by Geneviève Castrée near the end of her life as a final gift for her two-year-old daughter. Using precise, exquisite drawings of herself and her daughter, changes in their daily routines are depicted as a greater story unfolds. Castrée and her daughter float from page to page, encased in a bubble that protects them from the outside world. A contemplation of love and loss, A Bubble is a lasting declaration, a final memory, a comfort for others experiencing grief, and a beautiful archive of one of the world's most talented cartoonist's great artistic achievements. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/05/18
By Castrée, Geneviève. Artist Castrée, Geneviève. Cover by Castrée, Geneviève.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 12,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 12,30
Pagina del Previews (APR/2018): 374
Data di uscita: 27/06/18 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
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Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format. Moominpappa has committed to writing a Great Novel About the Sea, and so the whole family moves to a desolate island where Moominpappa becomes the lighthouse keeper. It soon becomes apparent that there are a few problems with the island: it's haunted, there's nowhere to enjoy a good cup of tea, and the rat family living in the transistor radio has strictly forbidden the Moomins from using the radio until the children have all grown up and moved out. Determined, the Moomins set about planting a rose garden, painting the beacon cheery colors, and finding other ways to make the lonely place their own. In the end though, is a bleak lighthouse any place for a Moomin? (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 31/05/13
By Jansson, Tove. Artist Jansson, Tove. Cover by Jansson, Tove.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 9,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 9,45
Pagina del Previews (MAY/2013): 313
Data di uscita: 24/07/13
Final Order Cutoff: 31/05/13 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Seventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. With Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, the manga-ka (Kitaro, NonNonba, Showa: A History of Japan) delves deep into the history books to create an absorbing and eloquent portrait of Hitler's life. Beginning with Hitler's time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizuki retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering. In Mizuki's signature style, which populates incredibly realistic backgrounds with cartoony people, Japan's most famous living cartoonist has created an overview of Hitler's life as fascinating as it is informative. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Mizuki, Shigeru. Artist Mizuki, Shigeru. Cover by Mizuki, Shigeru.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 29,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 27,02
Pagina del Previews (NOV/2023): 264
Data di uscita: 13/12/23
The classic comic strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson in a new paperback series! This volume is jam-packed with classic Moomin antics and shenanigans. Whether it's setting up finicky ghosts on a blind date or becoming devout followers of quarreling prophets, the Moomins' quick wit and existential musings never fail to disappoint. Every story in this collection is a bundle of fun, offering a timeless treasure trove of good-hearted whimsy and delight. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/05/25
By Jansson, Tove. Artist Jansson, Lars. Cover by Jansson, Tove.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
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Pagina del Previews (APR/2025): 253
Data di uscita: 09/07/25 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 05/05/25 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Within the pages of NonNonBa, Mizuki explores the legacy left him by his childhood explorations of the spirit world, explorations encouraged by his grandmother, a grumpy old woman named NonNonBa. NonNonBa is a touching work about childhood and growing up, as well as a fascinating portrayal of Japan in a moment of transition. NonNonBa was the first manga to win the Angouleme Prize for Best Album. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 01/02/13
By Mizuki, Shigeru. Artist Mizuki, Shigeru. Cover by Mizuki, Shigeru.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 26,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 24,32
Pagina del Previews (JAN/2013): 309
Data di uscita: 27/03/13
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)
Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Trash Market brings together six of Tsuge's compelling, character-driven stories about life in post-World War II Japan. 'Trash Market' and 'Gently Goes the Night' touch on key topics for Tsuge: the charming lowlifes of the Tokyo slums and the WWII veterans who found themselves unable to forget the war. Trash Market blurs the lines between fiction and reportage. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Tsuge, Tadao. Artist Tsuge, Tadao. Cover by Tsuge, Tadao.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (APR/2021): 295
Data di uscita: 19/05/21
Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny, and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility of the men around her. Her artwork is dense and confident, never wavering in the wit and humour of its owner. Doucet was active in comics for 15 years before she moved on to other media. Her influence casts a long shadow over the medium as Dirty Plotte is quite simply one of the most iconic comic book series to have ever been created. Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet collects the entire comic book series, including the acclaimed My New York Diary, as well as rare comics and previously unpublished material; a reproduction of the first Dirty Plotte mini comic; essays about her comics legacy and feminist influence by curator Dan Nadel and academic Martine Delvaux respectively; an interview by comics scholar Christian Gasser; and personal anecdotes from Jami Attenberg, Adrian Tomine, and more. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/09/19
By Doucet, Julie. Artist Doucet, Julie. Cover by Doucet, Julie.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 119,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 108,25
Pagina del Previews (OCT/2019): 306
Data di uscita: 13/11/19
Final Order Cutoff: 05/09/19 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
(W/A) Doug Wright With an introduction by Lynn Johnston, The Collected Doug Wright presents the first-ever comprehensive look at the life and career of one of the most-read and best-loved cartoonists of the 1960's. Compiled in cooperation with his family, it draws from thousands of pieces of art, pictures, letters, and the artist's own journals. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Doug Wright. Artist Doug Wright. Cover by Seth.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 39,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 36,09
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2009): 223
Data di uscita: 30/12/09
Kitaro the Vampire Slayer is the fifth volume in Shigeru Mizuki's bizarre stories about a yokai boy and his entourage of otherworldly friends. One of the most popular Kitaro tales, the title story pits Kitaro and his family against a Beatles-inspired mop-topped, guitar-playing vampire named Erit and his castle of horrors. In an unexpected twist?spoiler alert!?Kitaro meets his demise, but even death is hardly enough to keep our favorite yokai boy down. Along with the villainous vampire, Kitaro faces a trio of monsters straight from Japanese folklore. Mizuki often pulled from classic Japanese folk tales for inspiration, as shown in these three stories. A certain serpent and temple bell appear in 'The Phantom Steam Engine,' then it's onto a bird-like creature with a big beak in 'Ubume,' and Kitaro had better not look behind him when the Ushiro Gami comes to town. The four stories in this volume are collected from the late '60s golden age of Gegege no Kitaro. Appearing in English for the first time, this kid-friendly edition is translated by Mizuki-scholar Zack Davisson and includes bonus features like 'Yokai Files,' where we are introduced to Japan's folklore monsters, and the fifth installment of the 'History of Kitaro' essay by Davisson. For fans of quirky horror, Kitaro the Vampire Slayer is not one to miss! (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/09/19
By Mizuki, Shigeru. Artist Mizuki, Shigeru. Cover by Mizuki, Shigeru.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 12,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 11,68
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2019): 305
Data di uscita: 20/11/19
Final Order Cutoff: 05/09/19 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
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