This coming-of-gender graphic novel debut from trans creator Joris Bas Backer is an enlightening and often hilarious tale that casts light on what it was like to be transgender before help was more accessible and widespread.When their Mum moves to another country to work on fixing the Millennium bug, Jet is forced to stay at a boarding house. But something’s not quite right, and it’s not just the out-of-control kids that Jet has to live with. Jet begins to notice that they don’t feel like the other girls in their class. Jet slowly begins to realise that they may be more of a boy than a girl. Is that even possible? And who do they talk to about these feelings?In 1999, when most people think that the world is about to end with the Y2K crash on the eve of the new Millennium, Jet is just trying to get through high school. When their Mom moves to another country to work on fixing the Millennium bug, Jet is forced to stay at a boarding house while they finish the school year, and they're not
詭異又引人入勝的插畫鬼魂史!從名詞解釋到鬼魂種類,古今的鄉野奇談與歷史傳說,讓知名插畫家Adam Allsuch Boardman帶你探索世界各地從古至今,或口耳相傳,或親眼目擊的鬼魂樣態。Get to the heart of unexplainable phenomena around the world in Adam's third addition to the "llustrated History" series. From private seances and ectoplasm to spiritual mediums and spirit photography, fans of conspiracy and strange phenomena will transport themselves across the centuries through diagrammatic illustrations paired with well-researched facts about exorcism, mediums, ghost photos, talking boards, and connections to after life. Whether you are a ghost fanatic or simply piqued by curiousity, you'll get a robust deep-dive into the experiences of paranormal occurences, alternative explanations for these occurences, and our culture's fascination with them.Prepare to embark on a strange journey that allows skeptical inquiry, or perhaps the possibility of believing in the afterlife!
What if we are merely shadows, our characters defined by a simple inflection of light? The realm of possibilities opens up, because in our world we are nothing but spectators.The Spectators unfolds as
A coming-of-age story that explores adolescence, failure...and the Beatles. This is the story of a girl growing up in the 1990s - a middle-schooler who finds herself lost in the gulf between childhood and adolescence, developing paralyzing fears of failure, school, other people, and her own changing body. Along the way, she becomes obsessed with the Beatles... which might be just what she needs to find her way back to being okay. Yeah yeah yeah!
A gripping graphic novel set in the heart of East London's trendy center as it falls prey to monstrous calamity.Dalston, East London . . . sometime in the future. Below the city's creaking pavements,
With stunning narrative skill, this compelling graphic novel intricately weaves together true-life narratives from 1912, 1926 and a fictional story set in the present day. How To Survive in the North
The widely acclaimed Gamayun Tales returns with this exciting third instalment. A er a deal with Vodyanoy the Water Spirit sees the Merchant's son forced into a life of servitude under water, a not so
Praise for Jesse Moynihan's Forming:"One of the most hilarious and amazing bookshelf features I've ever had the pleasure of reading."?It's Nice ThatCivilization, but not quite as we know it, has start
"McNaught's comics are slow, quiet and very sensitive to place and time. The work is certainly poetic but not precious or twee. And the drawings are beautiful. Masterful stuff for someone so young."?S
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back
A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets Barbarian Days.In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrato
From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan’s financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of one man’s mind: Robert Moses, the architect who designed it
"When they put down this book after reading it, the reader will emerge as if from a dream or a magical, fantastical journey."?Raymond BriggsJohn Vernon Lord is a master illustrator of children's and a
Since the dawn of history, we have sought to understand our existence through creationist fables of omnipotent deities and mythical creatures. Jesse Moynihan takes these fifty thousand years of socio-
The Colour Me Menagerie coloring book is a great activity book for a child but also perfect gift for any illustration aficionado. It features twenty-four pages of magical menageries of animals from al
Pauline Campbell was brought up on Rice and Peas and Fish and Chips after her parents crossed thousands of miles, leaving the warm shores of the Caribbean, to settle in Britain. In this book Pauline w
Faithful Penelope waits for her husband's return as she weaves a shroud that foretells her doom, Scylla once a beautiful nymph turned monster prowls the seas hungry for flesh, while the witch Circe fa
When Bloom is thrown from their world and Gloopy is exiled from their home, each finds in the other a much-needed kindred spirit. But as they skip through dimensions among great weeping giants, enormous alligator islands and topsy-turvy 2D worlds, they find that their greatest challenges are in facing their own truths and fears which they have both been anxious to avoid...