DRAWN & QUARTERLY
FIRE THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON STORY HC
(W) Peter Bagge (A) Peter Bagge (CA) Peter Bagge
Through Bagge's skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself. Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, and went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work . With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-color.
SPANIEL RAGE GN
(W) Vanessa Davis (A) Vanessa Davis (CA) Vanessa Davis
Vanessa Davis's autobiographical comics delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. is filled with frank and immediate pencil drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smart, the finest work from a natural storyteller.
WILSON TP
(W) Daniel Clowes (A) Daniel Clowes (CA) Daniel Clowes
This new paperback edition of Daniel Clowes' modern classic celebrates the Alexander Payne-produced film version starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern. One of the leading cartoonists of our time creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist-outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of , , and gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.