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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
77 p. : ill. ; 16 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he’s just feeling set up. She’s nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn’t exactly what you’d call a catch. Twenty minutes pass. A half hour. Marshall orders a scotch. (He wasn’t going to drink!)...
2) Wilson
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
77 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells a single, complete story of a bitterly lonely man named Wilson, but it does so in tiny bites. Each page is a stand-alone vignette, in the familiar newspaper comics rhythm of setup, setup, setup, punch line. Wilson's solipsistic despair is expressed incisively and cleverly, taking Wilson through a search for his ex-wife, Pippi, who has become a prostitute since leaving him, and their daughter, put up for adoption years earlier.
3) Ghost world
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
80 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service...
4) Patience
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
177 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack, torn apart by the mysterious murder of his wife, Patience, flings himself back and forth through time to discover and punish the real culprit. Not everything is at it seems, however-- not even his beloved wife.
5) Monica
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphic Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
106 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ... tapestry of interconnected narratives that together tell a life story, Monica is the new graphic novel from one of the most iconic storytellers of all time. This eponymous protagonist is a rag-to-riches character who, after being abandoned by her freewheelin' parents in childhood, succeeds in clawing her way to the top--only to lose it all in a stroke of bad luck. She lives out the rest of her days in search of her parents, encountering a cast...
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