Drawn & Quarterly comic books issue 1

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Matthew Forsythe. Nominated for 2 Eisner Awards for best web comic, winner of an Expozine award, and hailed by the Montreal Mirror, Matthew Forsythe's Ojingogo quickly sold out of its first printing last year and went on to be chosen for numerous "Best of 2008" lists. The otherworldly pantomime about a girl, her squid, and the creatures and calamities they experience together, is an intrinsically expressive and deeply rewarding journey. Drawing from Forsythe's Korean influences, Ojingogo is accessible for all ages, tossing aside traditional narrative in favor of creating its own world. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., B&W. All Ages NOTE: Story continues in Jinchalo GN (2012 Drawn and Quarterly). Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

1st printing. Story and art by Diane Obomsawin. On Loving Women is an all-new collection of stories by Diane Obomsawin about coming out, first love, and sexual identity. With this work, Obomsawin brings her gaze to bear on subjects closer to home - her friends and lovers' personal accounts of first realizing they're gay or first finding love with another woman. Her stripped-down pages use the bare minimum of linework to expressively reveal heartbreak, joy, irritation, and fear. Within these pages, Obomsawin has forged a poignant, powerful narrative that speaks to the difficulties of coming out and the joys of being loved. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $16.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $13.50

1st printing. Story and art by Lynda Barry. Inspired by a 16th-century Zen monk's painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. In Barry's hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager. As readers get to know Barry's demons, they realize that the actual truth no longer matters because the universality of Barry's comics, true or untrue, reigns supreme. Hardcover, 9-in. x 6-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $21.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Shigeru Mizuki.

A landmark publishing event by one of Japan's most famous cartoonists.

Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Mizuki was a soldier himself, and he uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war.

Softcover, 6-in.x 8 1/2-in., 368 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Mimi Pond. A fast-paced memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California - with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex and drug use - and bildungsroman of a young woman from naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout to self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise memoir narrated with an eye for the humor in every situation. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Guy Delisle. Guy Delisle, author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City and A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, shares nineteen all-new comic strips that pay tribute to all the ways parents can drive their kids crazy, and vice versa. Slipping grammar lessons into bedtime stories, being challenged by difficult toys, and pretending to forget you even have a son: it's all in a day's work for Delisle. In The Owner's Manual, Delisle doesn't hesitate to make a slightly bumbling, fictionalized version of himself the butt of the joke, though his children often contribute zingy repartee and laugh-out-loud insight in the stories on display here. The Owner's Manual is the perfect antidote to frustrating car rides filled with "Are we there yet?" and epic battles over homework. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Brecht Evens. Brecht Evens, the award-winning author of The Wrong Place and The Making Of, returns with an unsettling graphic novel about a little girl and her imaginary feline companion. Iconoclastic in his cartooning and page layouts, subtle in his plotting, and deft in his capturing of the human experience, Brecht Evens has crafted a tangled, dark masterwork. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 120 pages, full color. Cover price $26.95.

1st printing. By Chester Brown. Paying For It was easily the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in the New York Times, and sold out of its first print run in just six months. Chester Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in, but a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics - prostitution. Complete with a surprise ending, Paying for It continues to provide endless debate and conversation about sex work! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 292 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Rumi Hara.

The Peanutbutter Sisters is a glorious balance of contradictions, at once escapism and realism, science fiction and slice of life.

Two students explore the urban landscape while following Newton Creek, the polluted Queens-Brooklyn border. As they do, they plan a traditional Japanese play with contemporary pop culture. Another story features an intergalactic race of all living things set in the year 2099 and is a dazzling treatise on the environment and journalism. Hara's innate control of the comics language is refreshingly unrivaled.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 180 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.95.

Drawn and Quarterly - 1st printing. Story and Art by Joe Matt. For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist's enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself. Softcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by John Porcellino.

Brimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino's coming-of-age memoir about the momentous and eternal year between the end of high school and the start of college.

It's a year of awkward house parties, first kisses, spontaneous, open-ended road trips, and struggles with depression. Framed within the context of empathetic recollection, Perfect Example offers up a new way for us to read our own pasts and be kinder to our younger selves.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Add to cart Near Mint $19.95

1st printing. Story and art by Pascal Girard. Pascal's in a bad place. He's out of work, he and his longtime girlfriend have just broken up, and when he goes out for a run to ease his frazzled nerves, he falls and injures his back so badly, he's strictly forbidden from running. What's an endorphin-loving cartoonist to do? In a bid to distract himself, Pascal throws himself into his other pleasure: reading. And while at the bookstore one day, he spies a young woman picking up his own book. But then she darts out of the shop without paying. Bemused, he decides to figure out why she did it. Pascal Girard intermingles an all-too-true-to-life snapshot of contemporary relationships with slapstick trials and dryly funny tribulations in this delightfully readable book. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Chester Brown.

A journey and tale of self discovery told from a very personal point of view.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 172 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Signed by Chester Brown

1st printing.

Story and art by Chester Brown.

A journey and tale of self discovery told from a very personal point of view.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 172 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

1st printing. Story and art by Anders Nilsen. In Poetry is Useless, Anders Nilsen redefines the sketchbook format, intermingling elegant, densely detailed renderings of mythical animals, short comics drawn in ink, meditations on religion, and abstract shapes and patterns. Stick people debate the dubious merits of economics. Immaculately stippled circles become looser and looser, as craters appear on their surface. A trip to Colombia for a comics festival is recounted in carefully drawn city streets and sketches made in cafes. This expansive sketchbook-as-graphic-novel is exquisitely packaged with appendices and a foreword from Nilsen himself. Hardcover, 7-in. x 8-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

1st printing. Story and art by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim. Cover by Lewis Trondheim and Brigitte Findakly. Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein's state control, and her family's history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one's homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 112 pages, full color. Cover price $21.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Julie Delporte. As she examines her life experience and traumas with great care, Delporte faces the questions about gender and sexuality that both haunt and entice her. Deeply informed by her personal relationships as much as queer art and theory, PORTRAIT OF A BODY is both a joyous and at times hard meditation on embodiment-a journey to be reunited with the self in an attempt to heal pain and live more authentically. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 268 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. By David Collier. At last, David Collier's most popular and well-received work, his comic book biographies, is being collected together in one complete book! "Portraits From Life" presents Collier's fascinating look at the lives of six individuals, from "Grey Owl" (recently made into a Hollywood film) to the recent "David Milgaard" story, about a man wrongfully accused of a brutal rape and murder. Also: "The Ethel Catherwood Story", about an eccentric early 20th century Olympic champion; "Humphry Osmond", a compelling look at the man who coined the term "psychedelic"; and, finally, a look at the early exploits of Richard Collier, the artist's grandfather. Find out why R. Crumb and Chris Ware consider Collier among the most interesting cartoonists working today! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Leslie Stein. Leslie Stein takes us on a sinuous urban stroll divorced from destination, glimpsing New York City through her open eyes. While she is closing up a bar late at night, she is also an adolescent at a rave in the mountains, an adult grappling with her grandfather's fading memory or at one of her first waitressing jobs. Here, an autobiography is built through memories and moments tied together by loose lines, evoking a beautiful dreamlike yet endlessly relatable glimpse into the world of a thirty-something woman carving out a life for herself, one step at a time. Hardcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 168 pages, full color. Cover price $21.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $10.00

1st printing. By Rutu Modan. After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during World War II. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little different than her grandmother led her to believe. Rutu Modan offers up a world populated by prickly seniors, smart-alecky public servants, and stubborn women - a world whose realism is expressed alternately in the absurdity of people's behavior, and in the complex consequences of their sacrifices. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 232 pages, full color Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Brian Chippendale. Puke Force is social satire written dark and dense across Chippendale's deconstructed multiverse of walking, talking M&Ms, hamsters, and cycloptic-yet-glamorous trivia hosts. He takes on social media narcissism, governmental propaganda, racism, the hypocrisies of the Left, and a culture of violence. Throughout this dystopic graphic novel, Brian Chippendale uses humor and a frantic drawing style to show how the insidious nature of corporate greed and the commodification of everything have warped society into a killing machine. Sardonic and self-aware, Puke Force asks all the right questions, providing a startling and on-point take on contemporary social issues. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8-in., 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $11.00

1st prinitng. Story and art by Marc Bell. Pure Pajamas collects Marc Bell's best material from his syndicated weekly comic strip for the Montreal Mirror and the Halifax Coast, as well as a host of anthologies such as Kramers Ergot, Expo, Maow Maow, and more, featuring his recurring characters Kevin, Ol' Simp, Chia-Man, Mr. Socks, and Shrimpy and Paul. Throughout Pure Pajamas, Bell creates symbiotic relationships within his fantasy ecosystems, drawn in a rubbery big-foot style. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $22.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

When the fortress-like country of North Korea recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital of Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside in the company of his translator and a guide. But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il - the world's only Communist dynasty - Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered. His astute and wry musings on life in the austere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel. Pyongyang is an informative, timely, and accessible look at an enigmatic country.

Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

1st Edition - 2nd and later printings.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

When the fortress-like country of North Korea recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital of Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside in the company of his translator and a guide. But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il - the world's only Communist dynasty - Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered. His astute and wry musings on life in the austere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel. Pyongyang is an informative, timely, and accessible look at an enigmatic country.

Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

Add to cart Very Fine $6.00

Add to cart Very Good $7.49

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

Complete with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski, this expanded edition of the international bestselling graphic novel Pyongyang is more important now than ever. Guy Delisle recounts his experience as one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country when he was working in animation for a French company. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of life and culture in the "hermit kingdom."

Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $16.00

Add to cart Near Mint $16.00

1st printing. Story and art by Anders Nilsen. An ambitious book presented in a unique accordion-style format from the winner of the 2012 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel prize. Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then everything goes wrong. Using beautifully hewn silhouettes and an accordion-style layout that unfolds to more than forty feet in length, Anders Nilsen updates Greek myth and Christian allegory with insightful and devastating wit. Hardcover (accordion-style format), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.95

Add to cart Very Fine $8.50

1st printing.

Story and art by Jessica Campbell.

It's the early 2000s. Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body. When her bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah's house. That evening Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and they have what becomes Lauren's first queer encounter.

Jessica Campbell uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. Rave is a coming of age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them.

Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $22.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Pascal Girard.

Rebecca's got an eight-month-old baby and a mystery to investigate! Late one summer night as she's breastfeeding Lucie, she spots two men carrying something heavy into a white minivan. It's probably nothing serious, but when Rebecca hears that a home healthcare provider named Eduardo Morales disappeared from the neighborhood that very night, she puts her detective hat on and gets to work.

Softcover, 6-in. x 7-in., 100 pages, full color.

Cover price $21.95.

1st printing. Story and rat by Seiichi Hayashi. Ichiro and Sachiko are young artists, temperamental and discouraged about what life has to offer them. They fall in and out of love, jealous of each other's interests and unchallenged by their careers. A cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s, Red Colored Elegy charts their heartache, passions, and bickering with equal tenderness, creating a revelatory portrait of a stormy love affair. This new paperback edition features an essay on Hayashi's contributions to contemporary Japanese comics. Softcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 240 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Yoshiharu Tsuge.

Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels.

Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. These vital comics inspired a wealth of fictionalized memoir from Tsuge's peers and a desire within the postwar generation to document and understand the diversity of Japan's cultures.

Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 284 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Fine $14.75

1st printing. Story and art by Susumu Karsumata. Red Snow continues D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga in this collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author's youth, a slightly magical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 250 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Anneli Furmark.

In an isolated northern town, Siv, a married mother of three, falls in love with a young communist, Ulrik.

Though their affair takes place in the shadowy winter, Siv's children witness her affair without comprehending its reality. Anneli Furmark's delicate hues of blue and orange heighten the sublime qualities of the cinematic subarctic landscape and provide the nuanced backdrop in which Siv and Ulrik drift through the season, musing on their love, boasting of their ideals, dreaming of a new beginning, all the while oblivious to their actions and the inevitable consequences.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 168 pages, B&W.

Cover price $21.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $23.00

Add to cart Very Fine $16.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Kevin Huizenga.

In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga, author of the acclaimed series Ganges, delves deep into consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time. It flashes back, first to satirize the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and then to examine the camaraderie of playing first-person shooter video games with work colleagues, to ponder what the passage of time feels like to geologists or productivity gurus.

The River at Night is a modern formalist masterpiece as empathetic, inventive, and funny as anything ever written.

Hardcover, 216 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $34.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

1st printing. Collects material from Drawn and Quarterly (1994-2003 Drawn and Quarterly) Volume 2 #4-6.

Story and art by Baru.

Road to America collects for the first time in complete form one of the best and most underrated comic "novellas" of the 1990's.

Originally serialized in three separate issues of Drawn and Quarterly, the story is set in Algeria in the late 1950's and early 1960's, during that country's long and bloody struggle to free itself from French colonial rule. Cartoonist Baru brilliantly documents an impoverished boxer's rise to fame amidst the chaos surrounding him and his family, from the slums of his hometown in Algeria to the bright lights of Paris.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 48 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $12.00

1st printing. Story and art by Sarah Glidden. Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends - reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit - as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves. Painted in her trademark soft, muted watercolors and written with a self-effacing humor, Rolling Blackouts cements Glidden's place as one of today's most original nonfiction voices. Hardcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Nick Drnaso.

When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. The follow-up to Nick Drnaso's LA Times Book Prize-winning Beverly, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 204 pages, PC. Cover price $27.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.95

1st printing. Story and art by Yamada Murasaki. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. In the end, we're all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another human's beating heart Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck...and about becoming his mistress once again. And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone elses spoiled husband is just what she ordered—until it's time to move on. Then theres Yuko: with even less time for married men's shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their—both fathers and daughter's—mirrored indiscretions. Drawn soon after the critically-acclaimed TALK TO MY BACK, the two stories in SECOND HAND LOVE mark the triumphant return of Yamada Murasaki, one of literary manga's most respected feminist voices. Translated by noted historian Ryan Holmberg, this edition includes an interview with the artist from the height of her career in 1985, where her wit and wisdom are on shimmering display. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 228 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

Add to cart Near Mint $8.00

1st printing.

Based on the Story by Jeff Vandermeer. Adapted by Theo Ellsworth.

With deft insight, Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural world. As the narrative progresses you may begin to suspect that the world Ellsworth has brought to life with hypnotic visuals is not so secret after all; in fact, it's uncannily similar to our own.

Hardcover, 180 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

1st printing. Story and art by Keith Jones. When two simple hobos - a pigeon and his elephant buddy - are wrongfully accused of murdering Mr. Mouse Mouser, the consequences are dire. Jones delineates an alternate universe-a world that favors the rich and grinds the poor and unfortunate into paste. Each page is a brightly colored nightmare populated with vapid celebrities and lazily scheming businessmen. Secretimes is darkly funny in Jones's irresistibly off-kilter signature style. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 88 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Luke Healy. Life is not a race. There are no winners and losers. Immeasurable people are doing better than you…immeasurably worse. You are statistically average. For over ten years, fictional Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. But two years post publication of his latest book, and suffering the blow of his twin-brother not finding him fit to act as best man, both Lukes career and self-esteem seem to have disintegrated. Set against the backdrop of a dangerously changing global climate, with melting ice-caps and flooding cities, Self-Esteem and the End of the World spans two decades of tragicomic self-discovery. From discussing self-help books like Marie Kondo's with the guy you invited over for sex, to summiting a Greek mountaintop while pretending to be working remotely, and a workplace destination murder mystery to a Hollywood revival of Lukes early work, we see our protagonist grappling with his identity as the world crumbles. Quietly funny, smartly introspective, and grounded in deeply-felt familial highs and lows, Self-Esteem and the End of the World ponders what happens when the person you are isnt who you need to be, who you are when nobodys watching, and ultimately, who can you possibly be at the end of the world? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 324 pages, PC. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.

Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 152 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.

Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 152 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.

Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 152 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.95.

2nd or later printings.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.

Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 152 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Adrian Tomine. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. Softcover, 108 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Adrian Tomine. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. Softcover, 108 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

Hers Cover (Pink) - 1st printing. Story and art by Adrian Tomine. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. Softcover, 108 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

Hers Cover (Pink) - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Adrian Tomine. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. Softcover, 108 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Shigeru Mizuki.

Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan.

This 560-page volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease.

With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 560 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $24.95.

1st Edition - 2nd and later printings.

Story and art by Shigeru Mizuki.

Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan.

This 560-page volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease.

With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 560 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $24.95.