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Dave McKean · 496 pages
An allegorical tale of apartment dwellers, a painter, a novelist, and a musician, each with their own lives and their own opinions about life in general. Their stories intertwine and relate to each other in many ways. God, jazz, sex, and cats all come up as subject matter, but it's primarily about creativity and artistic fulfillment.
Mr Mac and Me
Esther Freud · 304 pages
1914 - In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious be
Red Colored Elegy
Seiichi Hayashi · 268 pages
Translated from the Japanese. Originally published in 1970-1971.
Saints at the River
Ron Rash · 239 pages
"When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the small South Carolina town that bears the river's name becomes the center of a far-reaching controversy. Anxious to recover the body and give their daughter a proper burial, the girl's parents want to send divers down into the rain-swollen currents. But a contingent of environmentalists is opposed
The Nao of Brown
Glyn Dillon · 210 pages
Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who’s hafu (half Japanese, half English), is not well. She’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But that’s not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind; she wants to get her design and illustration career off the ground; and she wants to find love, perfect love.
Ordinary Victories Vol. 2: What is Precious
Manu Larcenet
Marco comes to terms with having a child, the loss of his father and their relationship, his mother living alone, a man dying in the countryside, a journalist cracking under pressure. The final part of this extraordinarily moving story about small things, rare moments, banal sadness and an ordinary guy who's just trying to live the best way he can.
Ivy
Sarah Oleksyk · 220 pages
"Ivy, a teenage girl raised by a single mother in a small coastal town in Maine, longs to leave her home and achieve her dream of becoming a painter. Unfortunately, daily life doesn't run smoothly for someone whose anger often gets the better of her, and who makes enemies more easily than friends. But when Ivy begins a long-distance relationship with a kindred spirit, she gets a glimpse of freedom
Market Day
James Sturm · 88 pages
This graphic novel is set in an unspecified country in eastern Europe, around the year 1900. The story follows one day in the life of Mendelman, an artisan, as he visits the nearest town on market day to sell his rugs. However, times are changing, and demand for his and other fellow artisan's high-quality ware has disappeared with the arrival of cheaper, mass produced items.
The Nobody
Jeff Lemire · 144 pages
The Nobody takes H.G. Wells's timeless character of "The Invisible Man" and brings him into a modern small town, using him as a cipher to explore themes of identity, fear and paranoia, and how they can turn a small community in on itself and destroy even the most pure of friendships.
The Making Of
Brecht Evens
When a moderately successful artist Peterson receives an invite to an arts festival, he decides to enliven what he perceives to be an amateur event by embarking on an group project with the other attendees. As Peterson's ambition and attempts at professionalism clash with the laid-back attitudes of the others on the project, their disagreements reach a breaking point.
The Sculptor
Scott McCloud · 487 pages
"David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the e
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Sonny Liew · 320 pages
The Bird Artist
Howard Norman · 289 pages
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a m
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi · 400 pages
One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person’s sto
Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli · 344 pages
Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.
Heartbreak Soup
Gilbert Hernandez · 208 pages
"Heartbreak Soup shares the dreamlike sensuality of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s stories, their soft contrasts, their intoxicating images. Hernandez introduces the Central American town of Palomar in “Sopa de Gran Pena.” There are four main storylines running through “Sopa,” marking their own courses and occasionally bumping into each other like billiard balls. The first concerns the plight of Chelo,
The Dressmaker
Rosalie Ham · 296 pages
Exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, returns from Europe to the small Victorian town of Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twnety years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills.
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Lynd Ward · 145 pages
Ice Haven
Daniel Clowes · 89 pages
A comic-strip novel about a group of misfit dreamers who inhabit the small town of Ice Haven.
Bakuman, Volume 1: Dreams and Reality
Tsugumi Ohba · 208 pages
Fall in Love Like a Comic! Vol. 1
Chitose Yagami, Nancy Thistlethwaite · 200 pages
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 1
Izumi Tsubaki · 146 pages
To the eyes of classmate Chiyo Sakura, high school student Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table ... but getting recruited as a mangaka's assistant?! Never in a million years! As Chiyo quickly discovers, Nozaki-kun, the boy of Chiyo's dreams, is a ma