Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003
ISBN 10: 1896597726 ISBN 13: 9781896597720
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide, and he's hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and by his side to guide Ernie through these difficult days. These two magicians have run out of escape tricks but they can't stop running.Esther is still numb with grief for Ernie's brother. She works at a coffee shop and has allowed her heart to simply atrophy while a torrent of rage builds slowly inside her. Nathan Lender is a small time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. He's running out of time to fix the past and make things right for his daughter. One morning Nathan Lender makes the mistake of trying to con Esther at the coffee counter. Circumstance will bring a desperate group of people together, all at the end of their rope. An unlikely kind of love grows from these broken people who discover the act of self-sacrifice can perform miracles.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
ISBN 10: 1896597890 ISBN 13: 9781896597898
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A westerner's visit into North Korea, told in the form of a graphic novel.Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa for a French film animation company, Delisle observed what he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered; his findings form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel. Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at a dangerous and enigmatic country.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2000
ISBN 10: 1896597297 ISBN 13: 9781896597294
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299052 ISBN 13: 9781897299050
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Focusing on less sensational times in U.S. history (non-war and pre-Depression) James Sturm's America draws a portrait of the people and their dreams that make up this country. Comprised of three chapters-"The Revival," "Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight," and "The Golem's Mighty Swing"-the stories grow as the country grows: from pioneers searching for a place to call home to ghost towns gutted by greed and racism to the distractions and fantasies of popular entertainment.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299087 ISBN 13: 9781897299081
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the drive for survival, and human ethics concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and their potential threat is as unsettling as the sudden presence of a massive pipeline on the horizon. In a dreamlike state, the endless land becomes a vast body of water where his boat is destroyed and his body floats in a subconscious space. On land, the road disappears and only blind circumstance remains. All is uncertain and all can be lost, but he continues on regardless.
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Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897299540 ISBN 13: 9781897299548
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds-a tale at once mystery and romance-introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly's "best of" lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects the cartoonist's short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeon and his sanitarium, and a mother back from the dead with dubious healing powers. Others are more attuned to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity, as in the story of a tragic past that lies within a family's theme hotel, or that of a struggling musician who hopes an upcoming gig will be his big break. In "Jamilti," Modan addresses political violence with a suicide bombing that shakes up a day in the lives of a young couple.
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Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
ISBN 10: 1896597920 ISBN 13: 9781896597928
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. War cartoonist Joe Sacco visits the Bosnian conflict to uncover the stories that are often ignored or uncovered by traditional media.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 groundbreaking graphic novels Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer, Palestinian author Joe Sacco created two short stories with characters from each side of the crossfire. Collected for the first time in War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-1996 are the acclaimed Soba and Christmas with Karadzic. In Soba, Sacco captures the internal torment of the romanticized Sarajevo artist-warrior who captivated the Western media with his guitar and hard-partying ways. In Christmas with Karadzic, Sacco gives the reader an inside peek at the darkly humorous news process that doesn't make the headlines back home as he chases after one of the most hated and sought-after Bosnian Serb leaders and war criminals.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299044 ISBN 13: 9781897299043
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Through the Lens of a Master CartoonistOne Eye is a collection of paired photographs by Charles Burns that captures the strange undertones of a staggering range of objects and locales. From urban and pristine landscapes to flesh and food, the visual combinations are at the same time ambiguously uneasy and starkly coherent. Sandwiched together without room to breathe, the images are given distinctive symbiotic relationships. In some cases they initially appear as a single picture, while in others the shots are drastically dissimilar; regardless, the results are always complimentary. "Random Selection" juxtaposes the small orange square of a color selector card with an appropriately matched peeling sunburn. Random though they may be, Burns's choices are clearly the product of his unique rationale, carefully arranged into revealing pairs. One Eye is his world digested through a lens, and evidence of the scope of hisvisual language.D+Q presents One Eye as part of its Petits Livres series: affordable art books dedicated to acknowledging the wide variety of talent within the comics community and beyond.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2002
ISBN 10: 1896597521 ISBN 13: 9781896597522
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. 1. The acclaimed series from Drawn & Quarterly is finally a graphic novel.An alumnus of Art Spiegelman`s RAW and one of France's most exciting talents, Baru has created with twitchy, nervous lines and washes of pale color the tense, sun bleached atmosphere of colonial Algeria in the 1950s. Together two Arab brothers wander the narrow streets of the capital. Tearing the family apart with their loyalties and ambitions, one brother goes underground and joins the fight for his country's freedom from French rule. The other brother takes to the boxing ring and makes a career of fighting with his fists that will make him a European sensation. A graphic novel with cinematic sweep and richly expressive art, the story explodes with the force of a punching fist or a car bomb.
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Verlag: Brand: Drawn n Quarterly Pubns, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897299494 ISBN 13: 9781897299494
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: new. Product Description Von Szombathy, Chris From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up-Although presented in a pocket-size, minibook format, the paintings, drawings, and sculpture within explode with dizzying color and movement. Readers are bound to get the sense that they have fallen through Alice's rabbit hole into a breathless world that is intricate, surreal, and chaotic. This is a vision where wax paper boxes sprout legs, teacups become tigers, train engines are set against bubble-gum polka dots, doughnuts sport Popeye-style muscle tone, and shoehorns are feathered, toothy, and psychedelic. Von Szombathy has adeptly drawn on influences of vintage comics, advertising, and underground screen printing. The overwhelming Pop aesthetic is perhaps too complete, however. Like a bag of Skittles that satiates the senses but leaves a growling stomach unappeased,Fire Away seems to stop short of moving beyond vibrancy and skillful design. On the other hand, creative teens looking for a quick sugar high to ignite their imaginations will be fired up with this offering. Not an essential purchase, but an attractive choice for collections in which alternative art is popular.Shannon Peterson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2009
ISBN 10: 1897299699 ISBN 13: 9781897299692
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. 2. Book by Forsythe, Matthew.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003
ISBN 10: 1896597661 ISBN 13: 9781896597669
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and popular graphic artist.Chris Ware has a passion for drawing that is surprisingly wide-ranging in style and subject. This book surprises the reader on every page with its sense of spontaneous vision. Architectural drawings from Chicago and interplanetary robot comics collide with cruelly doodled human figures and quietly troubling studies of the still life. A must for people with a passion for modern design and old-fashioned style.
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Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
ISBN 10: 1897299125 ISBN 13: 9781897299128
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Delisle, Guy.
Verlag: Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
ISBN 10: 1896597858 ISBN 13: 9781896597850
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi created a library of literary comics that draws parallels with modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics.Designed and edited by one of today's most popular cartoonists, Adrian Tomine, The Push Man and Other Stories is the debut volume in a groundbreaking new series that collects Tatsumi's short stories about Japanese urban life. Tatsumi's stories are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous, commenting on the interplay between an overwhelming, bustling, crowded modern society and the troubled emotional and sexual life of the individual.