Biography & Memoir

Serena Katt's grandfather, whom she knew as Opa, was a 'Sunday's Child', one of the lucky ones for whom everything always went right. Opa left a brief account of his childhood and teenage years, but it is opaque, a story of prizes won and boyish...

Derek is a solo parent raising three kids in the American South while trying to make art. Told in a series of free-flowing and often hilarious comic essays, Cartoonshow gets to the heart of the struggle to be a creative person in a society that doesn't...

Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People - men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967576Author Paco RocaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Follow the entire painting career of Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. This is the story about one man's artistic vocation and the work it demands, about life and...

The definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee's extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861661794Author Stool PigeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 379g

"Deftly upends the compliant narrative with impeccably documented stories of resistance and rebellion ... Made urgent yet again, the trio's courageous refusals to accept the U.S.-their!-government's heinous miscarriage of justice should irrefutably...

"I'm a grown man, but I don't feel it."Fernando Balius was a perfectly ordinary, self-absorbed, and misunderstood teenager. But before he turned twenty, he started hearing voices. After a number of misdiagnoses, he was told he had schizophrenia.In Traces...

'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' - New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calling...

A portrait of flourishing desire in a body ever-changing. As she examines her life experience and traumas with great care, Delporte faces the questions about gender and sexuality that both haunt and entice her. Deeply informed by her personal...

A story of love, adventure, and politics-and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, their journey to this historic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095273Author Emilia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964254Author Glenn HeadFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962830Author Moa RomanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962404396Author Martin GimenezFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsSeries FameWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064657Author Reid ChancellorFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author's grief surrounding his mother's death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics...

A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDRao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647460525Author Fiona HarewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Author Academy ElitePublisher Author Academy EliteWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960218Author JasonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772620122Author David CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684058921Author Benoit CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862037Author Tom ScioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841060Author Michael FrizellFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

From Amazing Ameziane, the creator of Quentin by Tarantino and Muhammad Ali, comes volume 2 of his Cine Trilogy of graphic novels. Based on the lives and films of acclaimed cinema icons, this book focuses on the legendary Francis Ford Coppola of The...

The Drunken Sailor traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his...

"an inventive and introspective memoir . . . crafted with equal parts mystery, honesty, and empathy." -Publishers WeeklyOnce, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body. Trauma can make truth hard to find. Have you...

The true story of the Cambodian painter Vann Nath, who used his art to fight against barbarism and tyranny.In 1978, a young painter named Vann Nath was arrested by the Khmer Rouge, the violent and totalitarian Communist Party of Kampuchea that ruled...

What choices would you make to reunite your family?"You know, Haidi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama."In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385677332Author Marianne BoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966913Author Hector German OesterheldFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860293Author Malaka GharibFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681123578Author Steve WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanySeries Nbm Comics Biographies

The firsthand account of a storyboard artist and his intimate experience with acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders. With this book, Stephane Lemardele traverses uncharted territory, linking the sequential art form with the often overlooked medium of a...

Legends have to start somewhere... Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the...

Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has what his father and grandparents call "episodes." She screams and fights, scratches and spits, and has to be carted away to specialized clinics for frequent treatments. Bastien doesn't like...

Imagine Wanting Only This is a haunting graphic memoir about leaving, and those left behind.After the sudden death of a beloved uncle, Kristen becomes obsessed with abandoned places - derelict Midwestern mining towns, an Icelandic village preserved in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545808757Author Fabrice ErreFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint PapercutzPublisher Papercutz

The dazzling, provocative work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) would come to define the vibrant New York art scene of the late '70s and early '80s. Punk, jazz, graffiti, hip-hop: his work drew heavily on the cultural trappings of lower Manhattan,...