Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via mail correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. This collection brings together work from across his career: college newspaper gags, selections from his books Black Humor and Half-Past Nation Time, his unpublished manuscript Lumps in the Melting Pot, and uncollected pieces. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 02/09/22
Artist Johnson, Dr. Charles.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 34,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 31,54
Pagina del Previews (AUG/2022): 344
Data di uscita: 12/10/22
Final Order Cutoff: 02/09/22 (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 futuristic punk ventures through a madcap, dystopian fantasia in this astounding work of comics literature by a celebrated artist and illustrator. Gary Panter is one of America's great creative forces: the illustrator for the trailblazing punk magazine Slash, set designer for the legendary TV show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and one of the wildest, most innovative comics artists of all time. Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise is a leap into the uproarious life of Panter's ever-cheerful punk everyman, Jimbo, and a perfect introduction to Panter's ever-shifting style. Amid a jumbled cityscape of rundown New York City streets and futuristic Los Angeles freeways, Jimbo crowd-surfs at a riot, makes amends with Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, and rescues his pal Smoggo's sister from giant cockroaches, all while the world teeters between extravagance and apocalypse. Veering from the crude to the elegant, the wise to the funny, Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise proves Panter is a master of cartooning, and still way ahead of the rest of us. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/02/21
By Panter, Gary. Artist Panter, Gary. Cover by Panter, Gary.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 29,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 27,02
Pagina del Previews (JAN/2021): 294
Data di uscita: 31/03/21 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 05/02/21 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Though virtually unknown in the United States, Tadao Tsuge is one of the original masters of alternative manga, and one of the world's great artists of the down-and-out. Never before available in English, this new collection of his stories from the late 60s and the 70s depicts the lives of punks, vagrants, gangsters, and other lost souls with gritty lyricism. It is a raucous, exhilarating vision of street brawls and dive bars, shantytowns and brothels, and an unsettling portrait of postwar Japan. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels Annullato/esaurito (Will Resolicit)
Ordinabile fino al 06/04/18
By Tsuge, Tadao. Artist Tsuge, Tadao. Cover by Tsuge, Tadao. (NOTE: After Previews went to press, on sale date changed to 8/22/18 so item will be resolicited in JUN18 Previews.)
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (MAR/2018): 401
Data di uscita: 09/05/18
Final Order Cutoff: 06/04/18 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator, Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them to a deeper, stranger purpose. What Am I Doing Here? depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which Dean's unclad Everyman searches for love, happiness, and the answers to life's biggest questions. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 02/09/16
By Dean, Abner. Artist Dean, Abner. Cover by Dean, Abner.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (AUG/2016): 509
Data di uscita: 12/10/16
Final Order Cutoff: 02/09/16 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner - completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States - is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war. Every face looks like the next, and language itself has gone soft: 'CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY WAY,' blares the morning paper; 'Heil Hilton!' barks an overlord on the news. Welcome to Soft City. Now don't be late for work. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/08/16
By Pushwagner, Hariton. Artist Pushwagner, Hariton. Cover by Pushwagner, Hariton.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 35,00
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 31,58
Pagina del Previews (JUL/2016): 410
Data di uscita: 07/09/16
Final Order Cutoff: 05/08/16 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
In a series of dazzling fragments-skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and white-Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents. The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma-a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Goblet, Dominique. Artist Goblet, Dominique. Cover by Goblet, Dominique.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,51
Pagina del Previews (JUN/2022): 342
Data di uscita: 17/08/22
Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press, The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets, were home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner's radical mixed-race strip Dinky Fellas, to the afrofuturist comics of Yaoundé Onli and Turtel Onli, to National Book Award-winning novelist Charles Johnson's blistering and deeply funny gag cartoons, this is work that has for far too long been excluded and overlooked. This anthology is an essential addition to the history of American comics. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 23,70
Pagina del Previews (APR/2021): 330
Data di uscita: 02/06/21
In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson-a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper The Chicago Defender-did something unexpected. He took the Defender's stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bumbling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together, they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future-Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, 18th-century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men. Never before collected or republished, Jackson's stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Jackson, Jay. Artist Jackson, Jay. Cover by Na.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 23,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,75
Pagina del Previews (SEP/2022): 357
Data di uscita: 30/11/22 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other-despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book. Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents' courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic-from his childhood mishaps to his father's trauma in Vietnam-interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel. Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 30/07/23
By Santoro, Frank. Artist Santoro, Frank.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 29,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 27,02
Pagina del Previews (JUN/2023): 390
Data di uscita: 30/08/23 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 30/07/23 (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 Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language! Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs-used camera salesman, ferryman, and stone collector-hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 03/01/20
By Tsuge, Yoshiharu. Artist Tsuge, Yoshiharu.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (DEC/2019): 315
Data di uscita: 12/02/20
Final Order Cutoff: 03/01/20 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris. Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels Annullato/esaurito (Will Resolicit)
Ordinabile fino al 15/10/17
By Alagbe, Yvan. Artist Alagbe, Yvan. Cover by Alagbe, Yvan.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (NOV/2017): 244
Data di uscita: 24/01/18
Final Order Cutoff: 15/10/17 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
An anonymous official chides a man under surveillance for stepping out of view of a security camera; visitors to an underground mall are forced to form a new society when a nuclear strike may (or may not) have left them as the sole survivors on Earth; newlyweds living in an authoritarian New York City attempt to navigate the insidious hurdles of being permitted to have a child; and a Puerto Rican boxer discovers that segregation continues in America long after death. In this collection of three novellas, Wonder City, Shelter, and 1996, published together in English for the first time, Chantal Montellier's blend of dark humor, gripping storytelling, and consistent focus on the perils of totalitarianism, shows her to be a master of both comics and science fiction. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 07/05/23
By Montellier, Chantal. Artist Brock, Geoffrey.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,51
Pagina del Previews (APR/2023): 377
Data di uscita: 28/06/23
Final Order Cutoff: 07/05/23 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Mark Beyer's outrageously dire, eccentrically charming black comedy is one of the great graphic novels of the Eighties, and a timelessly strange vision of urban life. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are devoured by fish, beheaded by ghosts, menaced by bears, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. The perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy's skin would grow back... (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 29/01/16
By Beyer, Mark. Artist Beyer, Mark. Cover by Beyer, Mark.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 15,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 14,39
Pagina del Previews (JAN/2016): 386
Data di uscita: 23/03/16
Final Order Cutoff: 29/01/16 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Though virtually unknown in the United States, Tadao Tsuge is one of the original masters of alternative manga, and one of the world's great artists of the down-and-out. Never before available in English, this new collection of his stories from the late 60s and the 70s depicts the lives of punks, vagrants, gangsters, and other lost souls with gritty lyricism. It is a raucous, exhilarating vision of street brawls and dive bars, shantytowns and brothels, and an unsettling portrait of postwar Japan. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels Annullato/esaurito (Cancelled by Publisher)
Ordinabile fino al 06/10/17
By Tsuge, Tadao. Artist Tsuge, Tadao. Cover by Tsuge, Tadao.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (SEP/2017): 382
Data di uscita: 06/12/17
Final Order Cutoff: 06/10/17 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Since the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems much like ours. But the closer you look, the weirder it gets. After losing a mysterious intergalactic war, Earth is no longer in humanity's control. Blandly friendly aliens lurk on the margins and seem especially interested in the mining industry. Mysterious figures suddenly appear in childhood photos, family members disappear forever without warning, power outages abound, and certain people gain the power of flight. A helmeted man named Jimmy is somehow causing local businesses to shutter and is being closely watched by the 'trendy new police force,' Rational Control. The world is being remade, but in what image? (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 09/03/18
By Reynolds, Chris. Artist Reynolds, Chris.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 34,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 31,54
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2018): 397
Data di uscita: 25/04/18
Final Order Cutoff: 09/03/18 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris. Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 09/03/18
By Alagbe, Yvan. Artist Alagbe, Yvan. Cover by Alagbe, Yvan.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 22,95
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 20,71
Pagina del Previews (FEB/2018): 397
Data di uscita: 04/04/18
Final Order Cutoff: 09/03/18 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
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