This first-ever collection by the award-winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey encompasses the very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. Welcome to the first-ever collection by the award-winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey, encompassing the very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. This compilation ranges from the Hoeys' early comics in Blab! Magazine to their groundbreaking Coin-Op series. All in all, it's more than twenty short stories and vignettes -- about music and film, the comic and the absurd, the past and the future -- all sparkling with innovative storytelling and design.

Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017

Comics & Graphic Novels

Hoey, Peter

Hoey, Maria

Graphic Novels

Top Shelf Productions

What separates us from animals? What connects us? Award-winning cartoonists Peter and Maria Hoey probe these mysteries across six surreal and interconnected stories.\nAfter tremendous acclaim for their series Coin-Op Comics, two brilliant creators present their first graphic novel: a menagerie of wild tales. Pushing the boundaries of their dazzling and unique narrative style, Animal Stories weaves together six short stories exploring the mysterious relationships between humans and other animals.\nA girl who keeps pigeons starts receiving messages from a new bird in her flock. A ship's crew rescue a dog, only to find far stranger things in the sea around them. A reincarnated cat with criminal intentions, a parrot who leads a revolution, and a squirrel who tempts a woman in a beautiful garden glade.\nDrawing inspiration from Aesop's Fables, film noir, and the Old Testament, Peter and Maria Hoey apply their singular and sophisticated visual storytelling to create a new set of modern animal tales for modern times.\nFrom School Library Journal\nGr 9 Up-Six interconnected vignettes tell a strange and fascinating tale of interactions between people and animals. Mysterious letters delivered by messenger pigeon in the first chapter lead to further surreal mysteries at sea, in a pet shop, and in the daily routine of a dog named President Ted. The protagonists include white and brown-skinned children and adults maneuvering through geometric layouts and broadly framed settings. Narration maintains a humorous tension as progressively stranger plots and connections between stories emerge. Each chapter's unique oddity raises the stakes for the next to keep up the weirdness and provide another clue toward the bigger picture connecting them all. A reenacting of the biblical Garden of Eden includes brief frontal nudity of a man and woman, played for a referential laugh as they are arrested for indecent exposure. Faces are static and interchangeable, which is negligible compared to the diorama-esque quality of many pages. VERDICT The formalism of Chris Ware meets the mystique of Shaun Tan in this idiosyncratic, animalistic enigma.-Thomas Maluckα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Animal Stories

Manga

Some guys have all the luck… but not all luck is good. The award-winning duo behind Coin-Op Comics return with a mind-bending tale of fortune and family.\nImagine a world where Luck, the most ephemeral of ideas, has a physical form. Precious stones of luck, mined like gold, are worn as bringers of fortune. But luck breaks both ways. While the blue gems may grant advantage to those who wear them, their blessing is fickle and unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, good luck can turn to bad. We follow the life of a man who comes into possession of some powerful stones — but the success enjoyed by the father goes awry when he tries to pass this luck onto his son. In alternating scenes between the two generations, The Bend of Luck follows felicity's course, like an arrow, through a family's destiny.

The Bend of Luck

In Perpetuity

On Bone Bridge

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Poolbeg Press Ltd.

"The sins of the past will not stay buried. But who are the innocent and who are the guilty?"
Kay Kelly has always envied pretty, privileged Violet-May Duff, but the two young girls come from very different worlds. Suddenly befriended by Violet-May, Kay finds herself welcomed into the grand Duff house, where, charmed by Violet-May's sister, the ethereal Rosemary-June, and intrigued by Mrs Duff, a woman with a past, she falls helplessly in love with Violet-May's brother Robbie. It all seems too good to be true. And it is.
One mild September afternoon the three young girls take Violet-May's baby brother for a walk in his pram. What happens on Bone Bridge that day will change all their lives forever.
Now in her thirties, Kay's path crosses once more with the Duff family and it doesn't take her long to realise that something is very wrong. With the life of a child clearly threatened, Kay is forced to accept that what happened all those years ago on Bone Bridge has come back to haunt her. Now, not only must she resurrect painful memories, but the time has come to finally face up to terrible truths, even if it means putting her own life in danger.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Poolbeg Press

Unravelling the past can be dangerous . . .
On a perfect July evening in the sizzling Irish summer of 1976, fifteen-year-old Festival Queen Lilly Brennan disappears. Thirty-seven years later, as the anniversary of Lilly's disappearance approaches, her sister Jacqueline returns to their childhood home in Blackberry Lane. There she stumbles upon something that reopens the mystery, setting her on a search for the truth a search that leads her to surprising places and challenging encounters.
Jacqueline feels increasingly compelled to find the answer to what happened to Lilly all those years ago and finally lay her ghost to rest. But at what cost? For unravelling the past proves to be a dangerous and painful thing, and her path to the truth leads her ever closer to a dark secret she may not wish to know.
'A haunting, mesmerising first novel with a chilling secret at its core. It will grip and surprise you to the very last page’RTÉ Guide

The Last Lost Girl

Poolbeg Crimson

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