Brit-pop meets Japanese folklore as Shigeru Mizuki summons equal parts humour, spookiness, and sheer absurdityKitaro the Vampire Slayer is the fifth volume in Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre stories about a
A bold retelling of the life of the Their Eyes Were Watching God authorPeter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero Buddy Bradley to do
Kitaro faces off against a swamp monster, a paper screen come to life, and an army of mythical raccoon dogsKitaro and the Great Tanuki War features adventures of Shigeru Mizuki's belovedyokai boy. In
“I love [Davis’s] free-form drawing . . . She just has a funny, truthful voice.” —Audrey NiffeneggerVanessa Davis’s autobiography, more observational than confessional, delighted readers ten years ago
A traveling prophet may hold the key to happiness, but do the Moomins really need it?When a charismatic prophet comes to town, the residents of Moominvalley are easily convinced to follow his doctrine
A Johnson has his Boswell and every Sticks Angelica has her Michael DeForgeSticks Angelica is, in her own words, “49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor
The iconic first Moomin comic strip by Tove Jansson, full of adventure, schemes, and romanceMoomin’s pushy relations have come to stay, and in the process of getting them out, he unwittingly embarks o
The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word “zombie”In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic
Inspired by Yeon-sik Hong’s attempt to move to the country with his partner, Uncomfortably, Happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent,
For his newest project, R. Sikoryak tackles the monstrously and infamously dense legal document, iTunes Terms and Conditions, the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads. In a word for word 94-p
Palookaville #20 is the first volume of the seminal comic book series to be published in book form. The expansion into hardcover from pamphlet is a parallel that illustrates Seth’s growth into
A new author in D+Q’s acclaimed gekiga lineIn this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling e
The award-winning Monsieur Jean series tackles the complexities of everyday lifeSince the character of Monsieur Jean first walked onto the page in 1998, he has endeared himself to readers, maturing w
Get to know the world of Fake Lake, built on an architecture of vibrantly kooky and warped jokesIt’s noon on Tuesday in Fake Lake and the smell of the Tire Stack (still smoldering after thirty years)
The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villainR. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Co
A personal account of an Iraqi childhoodPoppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed c
A view of America—as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between placesJohn Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows
A boy, a yellow hard hat, and a dizzying urban landscape, from the artist of Who Needs Donuts?Yellow Yellow is a charmingly simple story of a child whose playground is a gritty urban cityscape, writte
A raucous skewering of the art world as told by a master of absurdityMatthew Thurber’s Art Comic is a blunt and hilarious assault on the swirling hot mess that is the art world. From sycophantic fans
