Picture this: Classic Graphic Novels

From Hell - New Cover Edition By Moore, Alan Illustrator Campbell, Eddie Joint Author Campbell, Eddie 2000-02 - Top Shelf Productions 9780958578349 Check Our Catalog Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction. …More

Ice Haven By Clowes, Daniel 2005-06 - Pantheon Books 9780375423321 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Clowes, who received an Oscar( nomination for the screen adaptation of his graphic novel "Ghost World," weaves a multi-layered tale that, while it owes a debt to "Our Town," is ultimately based on and inspired by the case of Leopold and Loeb. Illustrations. …More

Black Hole By Burns, Charles 2008-01 - Pantheon Books 9780375714726 Check Our Catalog A strange plague has descended upon Seattles teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways--from the hideously grotesque to the subtle. "Black Hole" explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it. …More

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Bechdel, Alison 2007-06 - Mariner Books 9780618871711 Check Our Catalog Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. …More

Asterios Polyp By Mazzucchelli, David 2009-07 - Pantheon Books 9780307377326 Check Our Catalog The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when he moves to a small town in America's heartland after his New York City apartment goes up in flames. …More

Berlin: City of Stones, Book One By Lutes, Jason Author Drawn & Quarter 2000-06 - Drawn & Quarterly 9781896597294 Check Our Catalog "Berlin: City of Stones "presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. "City of Stones "covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow. …More

The Left Bank Gang By Jason Illustrator Hubert 2006-08 - Fantagraphics Books 9781560977421 Check Our Catalog 1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, "The Left Bank Gang" is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but... graphic novelists! Yes, in Jason's warped world, cartooning is the dominant form of fiction, and not only do these four literary giants work in the comics medium but they get together to discuss pen vs. brush, chat about the latest graphic novels from Dostoevsky ("I can't tell any of his characters apart!") to Faulkner ("Hasn't he heard of white space? His panels are too crowded!"), and bemoan their erratic careers. Add in a hilarious sequence where Hemingway is lectured by an overbearing Gertrude Stein ("What kind of pencil are you using? You should be using a blue pencil, that way you don't have to erase, all right? Avoid captions. Don't ever write 'A little later.' You don't need that. The reader will figure it out."), guest appearances by Zelda Fitzgerald and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a few remarkable twists and turns along the way, and you've got one of the funniest and most playful graphic novels of the year. Like Jason's acclaimed "Why Are You Doing This?," "The Left Bank Gang" is rendered in full spectacular color. This is Jason's eighth graphic novel in six years for Fantagraphics, and his audience continues to grow with every acclaimed release. …More