Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2000
ISBN 10: 1896597297 ISBN 13: 9781896597294
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299052 ISBN 13: 9781897299050
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897299540 ISBN 13: 9781897299548
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
ISBN 10: 1896597890 ISBN 13: 9781896597898
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Hardcover Edition. 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2013
ISBN 10: 177046123X ISBN 13: 9781770461239
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. The Moomin family moves to a remote island for the sake of artAnother classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format.Moominpappa has committed to writing a Great Novel About the Sea, and so the whole family moves to a desolate island where Moominpappa becomes the lighthouse keeper. It soon becomes apparent that there are a few problems with the island: It's haunted, there's nowhere to enjoy a good cup of tea, and the rat family living in the transistor radio has strictly forbidden the Moomins from using the radio until the children have all grown up and moved out. Determined, the Moomins set about planting a rose garden, painting the beacon cheery colors, and finding other ways to make the lonely place their own. In the end, though, is a bleak lighthouse any place for a Moomin?Tove Jansson's flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2011
ISBN 10: 1770460306 ISBN 13: 9781770460300
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Illustrated. The kids' comic classic, designed by SethThe ghoulish capers of everyone's favorite monster continue with the third volume of the acclaimed series. Melvin lands his first babysitting job only to discover he has his hands full, literally-the "baby" in this case is a giant monster, almost the size of a room. When Melvin meets his friend for a friendly game of marbles, an older monster-woman passing by is offended by the scene, as everybody in Monsterville knows that monsters should always fight when they're together. Finally, she is content only after forcing the two monsters into a scrap. Melvin also attempts to be the first kid in Monsterville to attend school in more than six hundred years, but he is thwarted each time by Miss McGargoyle, his would-be teacher. He is threatened with boulders, giant boomerangs, and even long-range missiles, but nothing can stop Melvin from wanting to go to school every day. Melvin Monster illustrates just how timeless the comics of John Stanley are.
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Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299044 ISBN 13: 9781897299043
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897299087 ISBN 13: 9781897299081
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. 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.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003
ISBN 10: 1896597661 ISBN 13: 9781896597669
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: 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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Publicado por Brand: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
ISBN 10: 1897299125 ISBN 13: 9781897299128
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Delisle, Guy.
Publicado por Brand: Drawn n Quarterly, 1997
ISBN 10: 1896597106 ISBN 13: 9781896597102
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Vellekoop, Maurice.
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