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Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.
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2014.
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First U.S. edition.
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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
3) Spinning
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2017.
Edition
First edition.
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Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating...
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2020.
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Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
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[2018]
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For fans of Hyperbole and a Half and Adulthood is a Myth, this hilarious, relatable, and earnest cartoon collection explores everything from misunderstandings as a South Korean immigrant to pop culture, dating, life on the internet, and having it all as a modern 20-something woman.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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"In this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost -- her shadow, she calls it, but one might also think of it as the 'otherness' or 'strangeness' that has defined her since birth, that part of her that has always made her feel as though she is living in exile from the world. In PASSING FOR HUMAN, Finck is on a quest for self-understanding and self-acceptance, and along the way she seeks to answer some...
14) Short & skinny
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Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
As a middle schooler, Mark finds himself on the smaller side of the physical spectrum -- being short AND skinny has really wreaked havoc on his confidence. So to end his bullying woes and get the girl -- or at least the confidence to talk to the girl -- he starts to explore bulking up by way of the miracle cures in the backs of his comics. But his obsession with beefing up is soon derailed by a new obsession: Star Wars, the hottest thing to hit the...
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2013.
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"Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever -- a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and...
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[2022]
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In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical holding pattern, housebound and often alone. In 2017, she found a strategy that helped reduce her symptoms, and soon began creating the first installments of a graphic memoir. Notes from a Sickbed collects previously released and brand-new, unseen comics that recall...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"The definitive biography of the beloved -- often controversial -- co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and many other legendary superheroes, A MARVELOUS LIFE presents the origin of 'Stan the Man,' who spun a web of heroic comic book adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe." -- Dust jacket.
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c2008
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"In the United States at midcentury - a time of few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women - Jackie Ormes (1911-85) blazed a trail as a popular cartoonist with the major black newspapers of the day. Jackie Ormes chronicles the life of this multiply talented, fascinating woman." "The biography's more than 150 illustrations include photographs of Jackie Ormes and a large sampling of her cartoons and color comic...
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2023
Edition
First edition.
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"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
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