Books about comics and graphic novels

Meet the author's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. This title is a graphic memoir.

This title follows what happens when people from all walks of life meet Agent Graves, a mysterious figure who offers his clients the opportunity of a lifetime: an attache case containing the proof, the gun, and the carte blanche immunity to exact revenge on a person who's done them wrong.

Rorschach, a half-psychotic vigilante must convince his ex team-mates, now middle-aged and retired, that he has uncovered a plot to murder the remaining superheroes - along with millions of innocent civilians. Even reunited, will the remnants of the 'Watchmen' be enough to avert a global apocalypse?

Spaceman Spliff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the rest of Calvin's imaginary friends return in this book. Other books featuring these characters include Something Under the Bed is Drooling , Weirdos from Another Planet and Scientific Progress Goes Boink .

Another in Neil Gaiman's series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, into which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.

Francine and Katchoo in high school! Learn how this enduring relationship began. Although they are complete opposites, Francine and Katchoo find a common bond in the one thing neither one has, friendship. Also included in this volume is a side splitting spoof of the popular Xena television show with Francine, Katchoo, and David showing up in the oddest places.

Five women, linked by tragedy and obsession. The Punisher killed their husbands, put them down like dogs and shattered their lives. Now, they want payback, and they've hatched the perfect plan to get it. To bring the wolf to their door, all they need is bait.

A small country town's got more than the usual crop circles to claim aliens drop by...they've got the extraterrestrials body! It's going to be a different kind of alien autopsy when the Kurosagi crew investigates their oddest client yet. And there's more strange visitors from afar when an American entomologist drops in.

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people. Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.

In the expert hands of David Mazzuchelli (Batman), Paul Karasik (Raw) and Art Spiegelman (Maus), Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life.

Talks about the Interdimensional Part-time Assassins Guild (IPAG), a motley bunch of assorted scum, lowlifes, killers and degenerates. This book contains ninety-six pages of paintings, character designs and idea generations from the sick warped mind of the artist.

Britannia is ten years dead. Phonomancer David Kohl hadn't spared his old patron a thought for almost as long, at which point his mind starts to unravel. Can he discover what's happened to the Mod-Goddess of Britpop while there's still something of himself left?

Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

Michael Jones is a man whose brain and body have been irrevocably altered by a mysterious, year-long experiment called the 'Desolation Test'. A former spy, he has moved to Los Angeles. Hired by a rich patriarch to retrieve a lost pornographic film featuring Adolf Hitler, Jones becomes embroiled in a Chandleresque plot of murder and mayhem.