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Identity Stunt
(Hardcover)
Joe Khachadourian; Contributions by Allison J Briscoe
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R715
Discovery Miles 7 150
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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When Blankets first published in 2003, Craig Thompson's seminal memoir
about first love and faith lost in rural Wisconsin debuted to rapturous
acclaim. The winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, it is to
this day considered one of the all-time great works of graphic
storytelling. Now, in Craig's long-awaited return to the
autobiographical form, comes the story that Blankets left out.
Ginseng Roots follows Craig and his siblings, who spent the summers of
their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on
rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour. In his trademark
breathtaking pen-and-ink work, Craig interweaves this lost youth with
the 300-year-old history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives
it has tied together—from ginseng hunters in ancient China, to
industrial farmers and migrant harvesters in the American Midwest, to
his own family still grappling with the aftershocks of the bitter past.
Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, to Northeast China, Ginseng Roots
charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American
labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.
As The Authority makes its way to movie theaters, one of the team’s most compelling characters gets the spotlight in a new story written by comics superstar Tom King (Mister Miracle, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow)!
What could four strangers have to do with the fate of the world? Find out as longtime DC hero Captain Atom goes rogue, threatening to destroy the planet he once swore to protect. Can any hero stop him?
Well, it may take the most unconventional of them all: Jenny Sparks, the one woman tasked with keeping all the heroes in line, no matter the cost. With a snap of her fingers, she’s entered the fray and won’t quit until the job is done!
The Spirit of the 20th Century returns for the 21st in this action-packed new story by Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King and rising star artist Jeff Spokes!
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home.
Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years.
Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm and gorgeously illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin, this spectacular graphic novel will delight old fans and inspire new ones, bringing the joy of Watership Down to a new generation of readers.
Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of
authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D.
Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg,
as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu,
and Gnostic texts. Crumb's genius, according to author David
Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of
literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them
within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal
his personal search for the meaning of life. R. Crumb: Literature,
Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that
chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring
philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and
biographical works and the ways he responds to them through
innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the
ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and
conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with
the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the
Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's
illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and
Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for
literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of
the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his
readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most
significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his
authentic self.
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! Despite the crowd of civilians and transfigured
humans, Satoru Gojo is able to defeat the cursed spirits at Shibuya
Station. But it's a trap! The cursed spirits possess a special item
that can even seal the all-powerful Gojo! Meanwhile, an unlikely
ally suddenly contacts Yuji Itadori, who is on his way to the
station!
Guts the Black Swordsman and company prepare to leave the port of Vritannis, only to have their way blocked by an army of abominations led by a powerful Kushan sorcerer. Even Guts’ accursed Berserker armor may not be enough to stem the bestial tide . . . especially when faced by the leviathan astral form of the malefic Kushan Emperor!
Collects Berserk Vols. 31–33, including three fold-out color posters.
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Genu
- Omnibus
(Hardcover)
Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, Giulio Srubek-Tomassy; Illustrated by Aleksandra Fastovets
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R1,007
Discovery Miles 10 070
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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