Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Graphic Literature and History Graphic Literature and History Books

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	Berlin City of Stones, Book One Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly "A comic of impressive scope. One of the appealing things about Berlin is Lutes' love of the comic medium. His story is full of novel combinations of text and pictures, shuttling (a la Wings of Desire) between impassive bird's-eye cityscapes and dairy-like internal monologues.”—*San Francisco Chronicle Book Review*

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Jar of Fools Jason Lutes; With an introduction by Sherman Alexie Drawn and Quarterly Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother’s suicide, and he’s hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort...

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	Berlin Book Two City of Smoke Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Fair Weather Joe Matt Drawn and Quarterly For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections....

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	Spent Joe Matt Drawn and Quarterly Meet the original antihero Joe Matt: a master of a domain that includes more than twenty-three self-edited eight-hour-long videotapes of bootlegged...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths Shigeru Mizuki Drawn and Quarterly A landmark publishing event of one of Japan’s most famous cartoonists Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous...

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	Jamilti and Other Stories Rutu Modan Drawn and Quarterly Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Exit Wounds Rutu Modan Drawn and Quarterly 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...

Hardcover : $34.95 Buy	Baghdad Journal An Artist in Occupied Iraq Steve Mumford Drawn and Quarterly "Though contemporary American art often flirts with politics, it is not usually noted for its head-on engagement with war. Yet some of the most compelling commentary on Iraq has come from a New York painter, Steve Mumford."—The New York Times

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Students for a Democratic Society

A Graphic History

Written (mostly) by Harvey Pekar; Art (mostly) by Gary Dumm; Edited by Paul Buhle Hill and Wang

“Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History will make old timers remember, discuss, argue and laugh, while the young will bubble with questions. For me, it brought back untold memories and induced visions of the next great wave of social activism!”—Michael James, JOIN/SDS organizer, founder of Rising Up Angry, and proprietor of Chicago’s Heartland Cafe

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Beats A Graphic History Text by Harvey Pekar et al.; Art by Ed Piskor et al. Hill and Wang “This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining.”—Studs Terkel

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	Paul Moves Out Michael Rabagliati Drawn and Quarterly "This novel captures the shaky pride of being a real adult couple, with all the careful affection (each 'sweetie' and 'plumcake') and minor domestic disasters intact . . . [Rabagliati's] simplicity and warmth as a storyteller lends his stories the pleasant, familiar glow of archetype."—*Metro*

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Paul Has a Summer Job Michel Rabagliati Drawn and Quarterly Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Paul Goes Fishing Michel Rabagliati Drawn and Quarterly “Free of self-loathing . . . [Rabagliati’s] black-and-whie panels eschew half-tones for a spirited line.” —Voice Literary Supplement This fourth...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Fixer and Other Stories Joe Sacco Drawn and Quarterly THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAŽDE Using old-fashioned pen and paper, the...

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The Stuff of Life

A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA

Written by Mark Schultz; Art by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon Hill and Wang

“With the graphic novel gaining status as a form of serious storytelling, The Stuff of Life makes a case for the graphic-novel textbook . . . The illustrations are simultaneously cute and explanatory, and the text’s oversimplifications and techno-utopianism are justified for a cartoon treatment of one of the most complex stories in science.”—Seed magazine

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Clyde Fans Book-1 Seth Drawn and Quarterly A compelling look at the life of two electric fan salesman, both brothers, by master cartoonist Seth. Clyde Fans promises to be one of the major graphic novel...

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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda

Stassen, illustrated by the author First Second

The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the...

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens

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Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Comic Art Propaganda A Graphic History Fredrik Strömberg with a Foreword by Peter Kuper St. Martin's Griffin As one of the most effective and powerful forms of communication, it comes as no surprise that comic art has been misappropriated by governments, self-interest...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	James Sturm's America God, Gold, and Golems James Sturm Drawn and Quarterly Focusing on less sensational times in U.S. history (non-war and pre-Depression) James Sturm’s America draws a portrait of the people and their dreams that make...

Hardcover : $21.95 Buy	Market Day James Sturm Drawn and Quarterly A TIMELESS MEDITATION ON ART AND COMMERCE SEEN THROUGH THE LIFE OF AN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH RUG MAKER Mendleman’s life goes through an upheaval...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Good-Bye Yoshihiro Tatsumi; Edited by Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly “Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Summer Blonde (stories) Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly Adrian Tomine’s cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Shortcomings Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly The 2007 New York Times Book Review Notable Book now in paperback Lauded for its provocative and insightful portrayal of interpersonal relationships, Adrian...