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Thirteen Going On Eighteen
John Stanley

$59.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

In the early to mid-1960s, John Stanley turned his attentions to drawing and writing his own series, specifically Melvin Monster, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, Kookie, and the most interesting of these titles, Thir... More »

Melvin Monster: Volume One
John Stanley

$36.00 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )

John Stanley is celebrated as one of the great children’s comics writers for his work on the Little Lulu series. In fact, the Lulu work is a small part of his output, he had drawn and continued to write many other comics... More »


Twilight: The Graphic Novel: Volume 1
Stephenie Meyer, Illustrated by Young Kim

$26.99 (Hardcover book / )

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernat... More »

The Unwritten: Volume One: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity
Mike Carey and Peter Gross

$16.95 (Paperback book / Dc Comics )

Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his cou... More »


Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History
Fredrik Stromberg

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Ilex )

As one of the most simple, effective and powerful forms of communication, it comes as no surprise that comic art has been misappropriated by governments, self-interest groups, do-gooders and sinister organisations to spr... More »

Batman: Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?
Neil Gaiman and Andy Kupert

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Dc Comics )

Best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman) joins a murderer's row of talented artists in lending his unique touch to the Batman mythos for this Deluxe Edition hardcover!

Spotlighting the story "Whatever Happened to the Ca... More »


Masterpiece Comics
R. Sikoryak

$39.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

“A provocative collision.”–Entertainment Weekly

“A brilliant parable about literature, history and what telling stories tells us about ourselves.”–Toronto Star

“Disconcerting and fascinating... a canny fusion... More »

Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou

$39.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics.

This was a heroic intellectual adventure most of whose protagonists paid the pri... More »


Stitches: A Memoir
David Small

$37.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (young adult category): the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.

One day David Small awoke from a suppos... More »

Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks 2001-2008
Marc Bell

$69.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

"A gifted…cartoonist… the delight of his work is in the play of free-associating and funny imagination.”– Ken Johnson, New York Times

“Boundary-destroying, wacked-out (and beautifully drawn) material from Canadia... More »


The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962
Charles M. Schulz

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

With an introduction by Diana Krall

‘I have naturally curly hair.’ With those fateful words, volume 6 of The Complete Peanuts introduces another main character to the gang: the vain Frieda (not to mention her cat Faron).... More »

The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960
Charles M. Schulz

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

With an introduction by Russell T. Davies

As Peanuts concludes its first decade, a new character makes her appearance: Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally. This volume covers her earliest days, from her proud brother’s a... More »


A Drifting Life: The Epic Autobiography Of A Manga Master
Yoshihiro Tatsumi

$62.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

Edited and designed by Adrian Tomine.

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as reso... More »

The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )

Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space on the back of a giant turtle.That is the setting for Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series, which celebrates it... More »


The Best American Comics 2009
Charles Burns (Ed)

$36.95 (Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin )

Now in its fourth year, "Best American Comics" showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns--cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the "Believer--"has culled... More »

Speechless: World History Without Words
Polyp

$32.95 (Paperback book / New Internationalist )

A purely visual, word-free world history, from the Big Bang to Climate Chaos, drawn by Polyp. Order your own copy here.

Speechless is a never-previously attempted work of cartoon magic, condensing the whole of world hist... More »


Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli

$50.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait... More »

David Boring
Daniel Clowes

$30.95 (Paperback book / Jonathan Cape )

Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And w... More »


Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea
Guy Delisle

$49.95 (Paperback book / Jonathan Cape )

Famously referred to as an 'Axis-of-Evil' country, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poores... More »

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 Part 5: Predators and Prey
Jane Espenson

$27.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, Harmony Bites, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, an... More »


Swallow Me Whole
Nate Powell

$39.95 (Paperback book / Top Shelf )

Winner of the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album

Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search f... More »

Blankets
Craig Thompson

$59.95 (Paperback book / )

At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two bro... More »


George Sprott (1894-1975)
Seth

$39.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

Celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Seth gives us the fictional life of George Sprott. On the surface, George seems a charming, foolish old man--but who is he? And who was he? Told as a patchwork tale, we c... More »

Breakdowns: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young %@&*!
Art Spiegelman

$44.95 (Hardcover book / Pantheon )

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form--and how it has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what... More »


Burma Chronicles
Guy Delisle

$33.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )

After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle is back with Burma Chronicles. In thi... More »

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel

$23.95 (Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin )

Bechdel is known to readers of alternative newspapers as the author of a long-running comic strip called “Dykes to Watch Out For.” In this ingeniously compact graphic memoir, she recreates her fraught relationship with h... More »


The Tango Collection
Bernard Caleo (Ed)

$35.00 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

A vibrant showcase of the most creative comic book talent in Australia and New Zealand - a feast for the senses and a celebration of love in all its guises, edited by the creator of Tango.

'Here you'll find some of the m... More »

The Umbrella Academy #1: Apocalypse Suite
Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá

$30.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children... More »


Scarygirl
Nathan Jurevicius

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

A sensational graphic novel for fans and collectors, starring the cult character, Scarygirl, whose designer toys, online comic, game and artwork have won her millions of fans world-wide.

Abandoned on a remote beach, Scar... More »

Acme Novelty Library 18
Chris Ware

$39.95 (Paperback book / )

In keeping with his athletic goal of issuing a volume of his occasionally lauded ACME series once every new autumn, volume 18 finds cartoonist Chris Ware abandoning the engaging serialization of his “Rusty Brown” and ins... More »


Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller

$24.95 (Paperback book / Dc Comics )

It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now as his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a tee... More »

Palestine
Joe Sacco

$45.00 (Paperback book / Jonathan Cape )

In late 1991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he starte... More »


Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

$30.95 (Paperback book / Jonathan Cape )

Ghost World tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in ... More »

Persepolis Box Set
Marjane Satrapi

$41.95 (Hardcover book / Pantheon )

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, "Persepolis" is Marjane Satrapi’ s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi ... More »


Persepolis: Volumes One And Two
Marjane Satrapi

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, ... More »

Bat-Manga! The Secret History Of Batman In Japan
Chip Kidd

$68.95 (Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf )

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese ma... More »


Fray
Joss Whedon

$41.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is re-imagined by her creator Joss Whedon for the dark future. In a future Manhattan which has become a deadly slum run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops, Fray--a street kid who though... More »

Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine

$29.95 (Paperback book / Faber )

In his longest narrative to date, Adrian Tomine tells the story of Ben and Miko, and their relationship problems as Miko moves temporarily to live and study in New York. Left behind in Berkeley, Ben, a confused, obsessiv... More »


Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Frank Miller and Lynn Varley

$37.99 (Paperback book / Dc Comics )

Frank Miller's sequel to The Dark Knight Returns is collected in trade paperback form for the first time! This volume includes the complete 3-part story, plus sketches and other exciting material. The Dark Knight returns... More »

Ice Haven
Daniel Clowes

$34.95 (Hardcover book / Random House )

Twenty-seven vaguely inter-related stories ranging in length from 1 to 3 pages, drawn in a variety of different styles, featuring various all-new characters (an angry bachelor, a love-sick teenager, an over-sensitive 10-... More »


Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Part 1: The Long Way Home
Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty

$24.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers-newly legion-have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some ... More »

Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan

$35.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )

Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, A young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins ... More »


Black Hole
Charles Burns

$28.95 (Paperback book / Pantheon )

Stark and powerfully drawn, this graphic novel is unlike anything you've ever read — a stunning tale of existential fear and loathing. Documenting a strange plague as it descends on Seattle's teenagers in the mid-1970s, ... More »

Maus: Complete Edition
Art Spiegelman

$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Acclaimed as 'the most affective and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust ' (Wall Street Journal) and 'the first masterpiece in comic book history' (New Yorker), Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Je... More »


Maus I And II: Boxed Set
Art Spiegelman

$50.95 (Paperback book / Pantheon )

Volumes one and two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a mouse's experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe and in German concentration camps are housed in a sturdy box. More »

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956
Charles M. Schulz

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

The third volume in Canongate's acclaimed series arrives with a specially commissioned introduction from The Simpsons' Matt Groening. This beautiful new edition takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy... More »


The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958
Charles M. Schulz

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

As the 1950's close down, Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom. But the rising s... More »

The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 Boxed Set
Charles M. Schulz

$84.95 (Hardcover book / Fantagraphics Books )

The 12th volume of Peanuts, including one of the all-time classic sequences in which Charlie Brown's hallucinations manifest themselves in a baseball-shaped rash on his head. More »


The Arrival
Shaun Tan

$39.99 (Hardcover book / Lothian )

The Arrival is a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a silent graphic novel. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home, crossing an ocean to a strange new city and ... More »

Rooftops
Mandy Ord

$25.00 (Paperback book / )

Debut novel from local Melbourne artist Mandy Ord. More »


The Sacrifice
Bruce Mutard

$35.00 (Paperback book / Arena )

As the world spins out of control into World War II, Robert and his family wrestle with the challenges it presents. Robert offers his apartment to German-Jewish refugees, Artie intends to join up as soon as the fighting ... More »

The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954
Charles M. Schulz

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

Our second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Sc... More »


Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Part 2: No Future For You
Brian K Vaughan, Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty

$25.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

When a rogue debutant Slayer begins to use her power for evil, Giles is forced to recruit the rebellious Faith, who isn't exactly known for her good deeds. Giles offers Faith a clean slate if she can stop this snooty Sla... More »

Jar Of Fools
Jason Lutes

$29.95 (Paperback book / Faber )

Haunted by a failed romance and the death of his escape-artist brother, Ernie Weiss is a washed-up stage magician whose remaining hope lies in his ageing mentor, Al Fosso. But Al is slipping further into senility with ea... More »


The Great Gatsby
Nicki Greenberg and F. Scott Fitzgerald

$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Nicki Greenberg's adaptation of The Great Gatsby brings to life the grand and crumpled dream's of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unforgettable characters. In the exquisitely realised setting of 1920s New York, a throng of fantast... More »

Coraline: The Graphic Novel
Neil Gaiman

$37.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )

When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is fill... More »


The Silence
Bruce Mutard

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

From the creator of The Sacrifice comes a provocative graphic novel about the nature of art, told through the eyes of Choosy McBride, gallery manager and curator, and her artist partner, Dmitri.

When Choosy McBride disco... More »

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Part 3: Wolves At The Gate
Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon

$31.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Vampires that, at will, can transform into wolves, panthers, insects, or fog invade the Slayer base of operations in northern Scotland, and not only walk away unscathed, but in possession of Buffy's scythe, the symbol of... More »


Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware

$41.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )

For five years Chris Ware has been drawing amazingly innovative 'comic strips' about a character called Jimmy Corrigan - a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greate... More »

Summer Blonde
Adrian Tomine

$32.99 (Paperback book / Faber )

The stories in Summer Blonde are longer explorations of the same themes of his earlier collection, Sleepwalk - haunting and spare tales of the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.

Since self publishing his first i... More »


Applegeeks Volume One: Freshman Year
Ananth Panagariya, Mohammad F. Haque

$29.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Jayce, an introspective writer, and Hawk, an excitable artist and inventor, have unofficially taken up residence in the home of sweet and thoughtful Alice and hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-hitting Gina.

The foursome'... More »

Acme Novelty Library 19
Chris Ware

$34.95 (Hardcover book / Drawn & Quarterly )

The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative "Rusty Brown," which examines the life, work and teaching techniques of one of it... More »


Moomin Book Three: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Tove Jansson

$33.95 (Hardcover book / Drawn & Quarterly )

Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-sell... More »

Walking Distance: The Twilight Zone
Mark Kneece

$18.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

Groundbreaking graphic novel series based upon the legendary TV show. A car breakdown allows Martin Sloan to take a step back into his own past where he seizes the chance to right his future.

Step off the beaten path as ... More »


Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 Part 4: Time Of Your Life
Joss Whedon

$26.95 (Paperback book / Dark Horse Comics )

Willow and Buffy head to New York City to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe, when something goes terribly awry. Buffy is propelled into a dystopian future where there's only one Slayer - Fray, the title cha... More »

Cecil and Jordan in New York
Gabrielle Bell

$36.00 (Paperback book / Drawn & Quarterly )

Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This colle... More »


32 Stories: Special Edition Box Set
Adrian Tomine

$39.95 (Slipcase / Henry Holt & Company )

In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following thr... More »

An Anthology Of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons And True Stories: Volume Two
Ivan Brunetti

$59.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged ... More »


What It Is
Lynda Barry

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Drawn & Quarterly )

What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting with full-color drawings, comics, and collages, autobio... More »

All Star Superman Vol 1
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

$24.99 (Paperback book / Dc Comics )

The amazing creative team of writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM) and artist Frank Quitely (WE3) join forces to take Superman back to basics and create a new vision of the World's First Super-Hero! This hardcove... More »


The Best American Comics 2008
Lynda Barry (Ed)

$43.95 (Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin )

This newest addition to the Best American Series returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

Editor Lynda Barry and brand-new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, acclaimed cartoonists ... More »

Angel: After The Fall: Volume One
Brian Lynch, Joss Whedon

$49.95 (Hardcover book / Idw Publishing )

In Angel’s final television season, his world ended… but his story didn’t. Now, IDW Publishing is proud to present the story of Angel: After the Fall, as presided over by Angel co-creator Joss Whedon, along with his hand... More »


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