Cartoonist Chris Ware abandons the engaging serialization of his 'Rusty Brown' and instead focuses upon his more experimentally grim narrative, 'Building Stories.' Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year 2000, the stories move...

TAGS: personal ambitions, chicago apartment, tasteful design, novelty library, graphic novels, reformatted

Limbs are swapped and pants are dropped in Albert and The Others, a collection of wordless strips that expose the pleasures, pitfalls and perversities of masculinity. In this companion volume to Aline and the Others, Guy Delisle delves deep into t...

TAGS: guy delisle, male psyche, companion volume, graphic novels, dismemberment, masculinity

Long lazy days stretch out while Paul's thoughts wander from the colorful characters at the fish and game camp to the lurking depths of childhood, a Holden Caulfield-esque adolescence. But the golden glow soon lifts off his vacation. It's not just...

TAGS: holden caulfield, long lazy days, brook trout, fish and game, indigenous species, graphic novels

In modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for cl...

TAGS: slow dissolution, exit wounds, female soldier, modern israel, israel museum, empty apartment

Lynda Barry is one of the pre-eminent cartoonists of the past generation, and in What It Is she demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursti...

TAGS: lynda barry, creative guidance, color drawings, creative method, graphic novels, inhibitions

Ten years after finishing the original French edition of Maybe Later, Philippe Dupuy set out on his own again with Haunted. Gone are the tightly constructed narratives and urbane, elegant graphics of his projects with collaborator Charles Berberia...

TAGS: charles berberian, philippe dupuy, elegant graphics, forest friends, self doubt, alter ego

by Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie The original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award-nomination and praise for its accessibility and for the rare portrait of a warm...

TAGS: fanning the flames, quill award, rare portrait, dynamic story, new romance, award nomination

After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle is back with The Burma Chronicles. In this country notorious for...

TAGS: guy delisle, nongovernmental organizations, military junta, leader of the opposition, outlying regions, graphic novels

Translated as 'folk tales' or 'storybook,' Pohadky provides a tapestry of interwoven fables and morose, allegorical iconography, bringing a harsh light to the greed, loss, and submission that marks the origins of so many cultural folk tales and le...

TAGS: narrative elements, pictography, shewchuk, harsh light, graphic novels, visual style

by Chris Ware The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library features a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative 'Rusty Brown,' which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of its central real-life protagon...

TAGS: seeing eye dogs, fiction brown, teen issue, novelty library, rusty brown, graphic novels

by Joe Sacco How does an artist reconcile being forced to go to the front line of a brutal conflict that will change his life and homeland forever? What happens when a reporter finally comes face to face with an evil war criminal? Before his groun...

TAGS: bosnian serb leaders, safe area gorazde, joe sacco, brutal conflict, humorous news, war criminals

by Frank King; Designed & Edited by Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited Gasoline Alley as one of his favorite comics strips ever and he has lovingly edited and designed Walt & Skeezix Book One the first ever collection and multi-volume s...

TAGS: boston globe, gasoline alley, skeezix, american comics, archival photos, volume series

by John Porcellino At last this classic long out-of-print graphic novel by indy legend John Porcellino is being re-issued in a new edition by D+Q. Road trips drunken concerts and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-ag...

TAGS: pivotal summer, cat comics, porcellino, cat cartoonist, king cat, graphic novel

by Seth Meet Wimbledon Green the self-proclaimed world¹s greatest comic book collector who brokered the world¹s best comic book deal in the history of collecting. Comic book retailers auctioneers and conventioneers from around North Amer...

TAGS: comic book retailers, comic book collector, conventioneers, graphic novels, wimbledon, comic books

by Julie Doucet This 10th anniversary edition features new covers endpapers plus a bonus never-before-published 8-page story! Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she devoted to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plot...

TAGS: julie doucet, nightmarish tales, comic book series, ed hc, anniversary ed, secret desire

by Ron Rege Jr. A new edition of this long out of print classic published in conjunction with Rege's new book The Awake Field. Ron Regé Jr. creates his own visual poetry that sets him apart from other cartoonists as one of the most original...

TAGS: ron rege jr, cute characters, visual poetry, graphic novels, fantasy world, thin line

The first narrative book in Drawn & Quarterly's bold new 'Petits Livres' imprint comes from Swiss comics great Nicolas Robel. Fallen Angel tells the story of a boy in search of truth and beauty in the world and it is told in Robel's compelling...

TAGS: quarterly showcase, first narrative, robel, truth and beauty, graphic style, graphic novels

by Chris Ware Chris Ware has edited and designed this new 400 page hardcover volume of Walt & Skeezix collecting the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923-1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his ch...

TAGS: page hardcover volume, north american continent, american cartoonist, gasoline alley, skeezix, graphic novels

A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her Mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off figh...

TAGS: miriam katin, nazi invasion, lifelong struggle, hungarian army, graphic novel, illegitimate child

Maybe Later sees Eisner-nominated Dupuy & Berberian working separately for the first time each cartoonist taking turns to tell the behind-the-scenes 'making of' their bestselling Mr. Jean series. In fluid black-and- white with hilariously para...

TAGS: dream sequences, philippe dupuy, simple pleasure, surreal dream, self doubt, graphic novels

Drawn & Quarterly Showcase is the first anthology dedicated to publishing new major talent and it has one of the best track records to date with past contributors including Kevin Huizenga Jeffrey Brown Sammy Harkham Matt Broesma and Genevieve ...

TAGS: kevin huizenga, american cartoonists, gabrielle bell, sammy harkham, quarterly showcase, giant robot

Available for the first time in paperback. Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed best-selling historical biography Louis Riel winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his comp...

TAGS: louis riel, comic book medium, chester brown, harvey awards, graphic novel, graphic novels

Abandon The Old In Tokyo is the second in a multi-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories , debuted to mu...

TAGS: adrian tomine, novel movement, graphic novel, volume series, graphic novels, critical acclaim

Winner of the 2006 award for Best New Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Aya tells the story of its 19-year old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling rela...

TAGS: international comics, warm colors, simple pleasures, humorous story, graphic novels, aya