Readings Recommends: Graphic Novels & Comics
Adventures Of Herge
$29.95 – Hardback / Drawn and Quarterly
The Adventures of Herge is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Herge. The biography is appropriately drawn in Herge's iconic clear line style as an... Buy or find out more→
MetaMAUS
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
In the pages of METAMAUS: A Look Inside A Modern Classic, Maus (going onsale October 4), Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the... Buy or find out more→
Hidden: A New Comic Book
$22.00 – Paperback / Black Pepper
Hidden is a graphic memoir in which an art teacher, who is also the author, Mirranda Burton, takes us into her art class where she is teaching art to physically or intellectually impaired students. Four overlapping stories... Buy or find out more→
The Kite Runner
$27.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A graphic novel adaption of the award-winning, internationally bestselling The Kite Runner, with text by author Khaled Hosseini Buy or find out more→
Smile
$15.95 – Paperback / Scholastic US
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces,... Buy or find out more→
Sensitive Creatures
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Read Mandy Ord's guest blog post about the process of writing and illustrating... Buy or find out more→
Paying for it
$34.95 – Hardback / Drawn and Quarterly
A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION. Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, "The Playboy," he explored his personal history with... Buy or find out more→
Australian History For Dummies
$39.95 – Paperback / John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Exciting and informative history of the land down under Australian History For Dummies is your tour guide through the important events of Australia's past, introducing you to the people and events that have shaped modern... Buy or find out more→
Scott Pilgrims Finest Hour Scott Pilgrim Volume Six
$18.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The LAST volume in the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels! Buy or find out more→
Hamlet
$55.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
In this sumptuous staging of Shakespeare's enigmatic play on the page, Nicki Greenberg has created an extraordinary visual feast that sweeps up all in its path as the drama intensifies both on stage and off. Buy or find out more→
Batman Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
$21.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→
The Book of Mr. Natural
$24.95 – Hardback / Fantagraphics
A Crumb classic featuring his signature creation, available in hardcover for the first time! Buy or find out more→
Howl: A Graphic Novel
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'In publishing Howl, I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb taht would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness, in case our militarty-industrial-nationalist complext solidified into a... Buy or find out more→
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
LOOK, I DIDN'T WANT TO BE A HALF-BLOOD. I NEVER ASKED TO BE THE SON OF A GREEK GOD. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher.... Buy or find out more→
The Acme Novelty Library
$36.00 – Hardback / Drawn and Quarterly
Provides interesting depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty. Also including Ware's extraordinary cast of characters, this book introduces Rusty... Buy or find out more→
X'Ed Out
$29.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color. Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and... Buy or find out more→
The Little Prince
$32.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd
A stunning graphic adaptation from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's exceptional, iconic and classic children's book Le Petit Prince. A lone pilot stranded in the desert is awoken by a little prince, and they become friends.... Buy or find out more→
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
$23.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
A stunning New York Times -bestselling graphic novel that makes plain both the undeniable horrors and humanitarianism triggered by Hurricane Katrina. A.D. follows six New Orleanians from the hours before Katrina strikes to its... Buy or find out more→
Drinking At The Movies
$24.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The creator of the popular comic Fart Party captures the hope and ambivalence of a generation in this funny, foul-mouthed graphic memoir about overcoming the quarter-life slump. Mature readers. Buy or find out more→
The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964
$29.99 – Hardback / Canongate Books Ltd
Over 150 strips (more than one fifth of the book!) have never seen the light of day since their original appearance over 40 years ago. Buy or find out more→
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
$23.95 – Paperback / Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have created the first authorized and... Buy or find out more→
Arrival And Sketches From A Nameless Land Boxed Set
$89.99 – Hardback / Hachette Australia
This set of the best-selling graphic novel The Arrival, and a new companion volume of commentary and developmental drawings, Sketches from a Nameless Land, will fascinate anyone who has fallen under the spell of Shaun Tan's... Buy or find out more→
If You Cant Stand The Heat
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Judy Horacek's beautiful and brilliantly funny observations are modern icons perfectly distilling the absurdities, foibles and the dilemmas of contemporary life. Ranging from the minutiae of daily living to larger scale global and... Buy or find out more→
Swallow Me Whole
$29.95 – Paperback / Top Shelf Productions
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,... Buy or find out more→
The Photographer
$42.00 – Paperback / Roaring Brook Press
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.... Buy or find out more→
Parker
$36.95 – Hardback / Idea & Design Works
The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way... Buy or find out more→
The Hound of the Baskervilles
$25.95 – Paperback / SelfMadeHero
One of the greatest stories of all time gets a gloriously daft and side-splittingly funny theatrical makeover from the hit comedy-team Peepolykus Buy or find out more→