Samuel C. Gaskin's first book is a delirious mash-up of gags, strips and stories with playful, risque riffs on pop luminaries. Fatal Faux-Pas is youthful exuberance for the adult reader.

Fatal Faux-Pas

Comics & Graphic Novels

Gaskin, Samuel C.

Comic Strips

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Eamon Espey's darkly funny Wormdye, counted among the twenty best books of the decade by the Comics Journal, illustrates the fever-pitched anxiety of modern life. From the River Styx to the Vatican to the Mitchell Corn Palace, follow twin brothers Marco and Tommy as they venture through the human struggle.

Wormdye

Espey, Eamon

Manga

Intricate, even exquisite - but never immaculate, Theo Ellsworth's Capacity is a mind turned inside out. Ellsworth's careful line gives shape to profound and profoundly silly thoughts alike, bringing a visionary, startling new life to the doubts and hopes that are so familiar to everyone. This is the 2010 reprint of Theo Ellsworth's debut graphic novel. Capacity.

Capacity

Ellsworth, Theo

Graphic Novels

"If you don't like talking fruit and animals, what are you, insane?" —Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
From Minty Lewis of Cartoon Network's Regular Show comes the Ignatz Award winning PS Comics. They might be strawberries or terriers, but they're the drunken coworkers, troubled classmates, and vindictive roommates that haunt everybody.

PS Comics

Lewis, Minty

Parenting & Relationships

Part fiction and part deranged educational film strip, Monsters focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of an STD that rarely affects two people the same way. Following his acclaimed collection of short comics, Welcome to the Dahlhouse, Ken Dahl cements his status as one of the best cartoonists of his generation with this brutally honest account of disease and self-acceptance.

Monsters

Dahl, Ken

Along with several new short stories, I Will Bite You! collects the rare, self-published mini-comics work of Eisner Award winner Joe Lambert. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and Best American Comics selection, these comics reveal sophisticated, unusual, and surprising narratives about animal musicians, mischievous children, cavemen, and heavenly bodies.

I Will Bite You!

Lambert, Joseph

Sleeper Car is Theo Ellsworth s next hilarious and inventive leap away from the inward journey and into pure fantasy. This small collection of short stories features gambling robots, a thrilling space mission, a whimsical train ride and a coterie of generous sky gnomes. With his unique blend of humor, wild creativity, and artwork as intricate as ever, Ellsworth realizes worlds unknown. Sleeper Car is about discovery, exploration and the benefits of letting your imagination guide you.

Sleeper Car

Theo Ellsworth

Evoking the mystery, treachery and stillness of the woods at night, the stories in John Brodowski's debut collection, Curio Cabinet, are told with lush, wordless visuals. Curio Cabinet's stories chart how characters transcend their lives and situations, for better or worse, borrowing from familiar sources: horror movies, hard rock album covers and mythology.

Curio Cabinet

Brodowski, John

The Ignatz Award winner for Outstanding Graphic Novel, Gaylord Phoenix follows the danger-fraught journeys of the titular creature. Edie Fake confronts the reader with violent and unexpected manifestations of sexual connection and romantic possession as the Gaylord Phoenix searches for his lost love, his origins and his place in the world.

Gaylord Phoenix

Fake, Edie

Troop 142 follows a group of campers and counselors on a scout retreat. It is a story about the blurred line between childhood and manhood, and the hypocrisy of institutional morality. Mike Dawson captures the hilarious, brutal truths about boys and men, and the resilience of Spam and the human spirit.

Troop 142

Dawson, Mike

Teen & Young Adult

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