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"For years I've encountered Lisa Hanawalt's comics and illustrations piecemeal -- in various magazines and periodicals. They're always a pleasant jolt. Now, they've been assembled into one thick, blazing bludgeon. I envy you getting walloped by them all for the first time. This is a Hanawalt assault. Succumb."–Patton Oswalt
"Hanawalt's My Dirty Dumb Eyes is a fantastically vivid and whimsical playground, offering page after page of absurdity, humor, and charm. The artwork is stunning and the jokes are surprising and fresh. This book is a rare and wonderful invitation inside the surreal world of Hanawalt."--Kristen Schaal
"Lisa Hanawalt is as gifted of an artist as she is a hilarious writer, which is completely upsetting and unfair considering how untalented most people in this stupid world are. Her comics are brilliantly funny, gloriously weird, and visually stunning. I worship the chair she farts on."--Julie Klausner
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of color, unapologetically gorgeous and intensely bizarre. With movie reviews, tips for her readers, laugh-out-loud lists and short pieces such as “Rumors I’ve Heard About Anna Wintour,” and “The Secret Lives of Chefs,” Hanawalt’s comedy shines, making the quotidian silly and surreal, flatulent and facetious.
Hanawalt’s comics have appeared in the Hairpin, VanityFair.com, the New York Times, and the Believer. She lives in Brooklyn with a dog and a comedian.

“Pekar has proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.”
–The New York Times
For years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving her point to be a little tricky without examples to bolster her case. So she does something a little crazy: She sets out for far-off Macedonia, a landlocked country north of Greece and west of Bulgaria, to explore a region that has edged–repeatedly–close to the brink of violence, only to refrain.
In the process–and as vividly portrayed by the talented duo of Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor–Heather is tangled in red tape, ripped off by cabdrivers and hotel clerks, hit on by creepy guys, secretly photographed, and mistaken for a spy. She also creates unlikely friendships, learns that getting lost means seeing something new, and makes some startling discoveries. War is hell and peace is difficult–but conflict is always necessary.
“Harvey Pekar wrestles the kind of things most comic book heroes wouldn’t touch with a laser blaster.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A visit with Harvey Pekar . . . will cause you to reexamine your own life . . . just as the greatest literature will.”
–The Austin Chronicle
“Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand.”
–The New York Times Book Review

Miniseries based on the roleplaying game Paranoia, set in a post-apocalyptic future where survivors live in Alpha Complex, a high-tech complex run by an insane computer.

Switzerland in the near future of the year 2032. Years of financial crisis and war have brought the once flourishing country to the brink of collapse. One day a gigantic creature that seems to have an uncanny resemblance to the Swiss national symbol William Tell appears in various parts of Zurich. Battling criminals and crooks he seems to be on the side of the common people to restore law and order. The citizens see in him the long awaited savior and patriotism awakens again. Finally there is a hero to fight for the rights of the people. But who is this TELL? And what are his true intentions?

In 1992 David Boller left Switzerland for the USA to become a professional comic book artist. A simple goal turned into a sixteen year long adventure, populated with eccentric characters and accompanied by success and defeat that continue to have a profound influence on his life today. David talks about his experience in the American comic book industry, his struggles with his adopted family and his attempt at getting a piece of the American Dream in an honest and easygoing style. A captivating new autobiographical graphic novel by acclaimed European creator David Boller.

Plagued is the true story of a fake apocalypse. On one terrifying night in post-tsunami Thailand, all signs point to the inevitable end of Ryan Estrada's life, if not the world. A harrowing tale of locusts, frogs and hitler cats.

Aki is going to make friends with everyone in her class, whether they like it or not. Not because she's nice, she's actually quite a jerk. But she has a bet to win, and for the first time in her life, she's going to stick with something even if she has to fight, bribe and cheat her way into friendship.

Rebellion. Revolution. Uprisings. It’s Steam Powered Storytelling in GrayHaven’s latest ‘Limitless’ anthology.

Collecting the first six installments of the wildly popular series, Markosia presents SMOKE & MIRROR VOLUME ONE: TIME AND TIME AGAIN. Featuring the previously published first and second issues, along with issues 3 to 6 as well as tons of extras and sketches.

This digital omnibus collects all four volumes of Douglas Rushkoff's Testament, a critically acclaimed adventure of technology, magic and myth.

Tall Tales and Outrageous Adventures is a new series by Isabel Greenberg, the acclaimed author of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. In this series she'll be appropriating a number of well loved myths, legends and fairytales.
Taking a playful, modern approach to these classics and illustrated in Greenberg's charming, folk art inspired style Tall Tales... will delight readers old and young alike.

LINCOLN LIVES!! Only to find Washington in ruin!! U.S. Grant goes to a bar! Johnny Appleseed discovers special ability! Harriet Tubman battles Black Magic! Lincoln faces the gallows traitor! Also meet the diabolical mastermind behind the South's resurrection The Dandy. CIVIL FOUR ASSEMBLE...if they can live long enough.

One ugly, old douchebag. One beautiful, unattainable girl. One man's personal hell is about to break loose.

A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (New York Times). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous The Protocols has been to mankind."—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world, the Protocols, first published in 1902, have become gospel truth to international millions. Presenting a pageant of historical figures from nineteenth-century Russia to today's ideologues, including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Will Eisner unravels and dispels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.

From the cover: "Vietnam 1967--the way it really was--with never-before published material. . .When journalist Scott Neithammer arrived in Vietnam, he expected to write about body counts and the winning of hearts and minds. But he very quickly discovered the real story lay elsewhere-with the rank-and-file soldiers, fighting a war they did not understand and were not allowed to win. Don Lomax, himself a veteran of the Vietnam War, captures the raw emotions and gritty reality of what it was like for the grunts in the muck. The language and violence are realistic, but not glorified. A stunning fact-based look at the Vietnam War." "The best war comic in more than 35 years." Don Thompson, the Comic Buyer's Guide

Gothic Art is a powerful new illustrated book, packed with inimate portraits of lonely vampires, winsome witches and stunning visions of eerie characters and landscapes. Gothic art has surged in popularity over recent years, fuelled by the Twilight phenomenon, then cool TV series such as True Blood, Vampire Diaries and My Babysitter's a Vampire and bestselling games cards from Wizards of the Coast. The Hunger Games generation is fascinated by gothic themes and this fantastic new book brings together the hottest new talent with classic gothic artists such as Aly Fell, Anne Stokes, Alex Horley, Jasmine Beckett-Griffith and Brom, to create an explosive, imaginative tour-de-force. With digital and traditional paintings and photo art, and a fascinating discussion of the gothic, this is a must-have read for anyone interested in the slightly darker, anarchic side of art.