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Featuring his witty, beloved cartoons throughout, a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist sketches out his life in this memoir in which he discusses his hapless place in his indelibly dysfunctional family, professes his love for New York City, and explores the origins of creativity.
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English
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Living with the memory of her lonely childhood, Lucy Brighton keeps her distance from her parents, but when they are killed in a car accident, she travels to Florida to settle their estate and finds herself confronted with a mysterious safe and family secrets.
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English
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Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
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394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee--born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922--is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property...
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English
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever -- a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and a...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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The creator of "Hyperbole and a Half" presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness, and powerlessness in modern life.
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Open Letter
Pub. Date
2021.
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156 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship....
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Cormoran Strike novel volume 6
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English
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The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the...
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English
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 19, 2022
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Best Non-Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
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"Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their...
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English
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"Twenty years ago, young painter Jeffrey Brown grew frustrated with the expectations of the art world and wanted desperately to make something real. In a single sketchbook, working directly in ink, he began recording his memories of a recent long-distance relationship, matching the emotional frailty of the young lovers with painfully honest writing and art. As that book, Clumsy, struck a chord with readers and spawned the follow-ups Unlikely and Any...
12) Zodiac
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English
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Robert Graysmith is a socially awkward newspaper cartoonist. He becomes obsessed with the Zodiac, a serial killer whom was murdering people in the San Francisco area. The publicity-hungry Zodiac starts writing cryptic letters to the papers regarding the unsolved murders. He latches onto columnist Paul Avery who has the crime beat and gets overly involved with the investigation. Lead investigator, David Toschi and his partner, William Armstrong, have...
13) Epileptico
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Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
2019.
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51 pages, 60 pages, 52 pages, 52 pages, 60 pages, 85 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Español
14) My begging chart
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
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153 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own. Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing barbies with her daughter and will momentarily snap out of her...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A London-based illustrator, author and graphic artist illustrates her coming-of-age story as a gay woman including feeling a deep sense of not belonging, self-denial, awkward encounters, everyday courage and her first girlfriend.
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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In this graphic novel, the author documents his reconciliation with his father, dying of emphysema, as he cares for him in hospice--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile"--
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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133 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to a clinic, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis--and is immediately hospitalised. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi's life as she struggles to find her way back to reality and manga creation in the wake of her breakdown"--
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