Biography & Memoir

Emil Zatopek is arguably the greatest Olympic champion of all time. The Czech runner's three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, for the 5,000 meter, 10,000 meter, and marathon is an achievement that has never been matched. His success as...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998489Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 534g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891510Author Lena MerhejFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434920Format PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965213Author Gianni 'Gipi' PacinottiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684054923Author Jim CornetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 260mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575115Author Malaka GharibFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

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 9781965464229Author Michael L FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

A moving, often very funny graphic memoir about what it is like to grow up with an illness that no one can diagnose. ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141527Author Chuck DFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862495Author Eddie AhnFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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 moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their...

A quiet, aging teacher decides to run the NY Marathon. Along the way, he transforms into the man he always wanted to be.Sebastien, a quiet and shy teacher, gets lost in the memories of his boyhood, when he was a strong and successful runner. On a whim,...

Over the years, the companies have deployed an arsenal of schemes in an attempt to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing ideas, poaching employees, planting spies, ripping off characters or launching price wars. Sometimes the feud has been...

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

From the thirty-two canvas Campbell's Soup Cans to the Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol's silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmicky and unafraid of repetition. Obsessed with consumerism and the cult of celebrity, Warhol exalted the...

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...

Kat has no responsibilities and nothing to tie her down. She'd graduated university with no plans. She was an artist, but hadn't drawn in five years. She was lost. And she'd been avoiding admitting to herself something that all of those around her knew:...

For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared university graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059478Author Dean MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

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 9781962404396Author Martin GimenezFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsSeries FameWeight(grams)...

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...

The ageing Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the lung cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism. In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar smoker, discovers that he has mouth cancer, a truth...

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...

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...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999417Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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 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 9781772620122Author David CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Graphic Novel) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781593765408Author A. K. SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher...

For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers permission to radically love themselves, feel their feelings, and live...

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...

Fascinating, bizarre, and educational true-life medical stories retold in cartoon form by the creator of the bestselling Heart and Brain book series.Mysterious illnesses. Freakish injuries. X-rays revealing something weird that got stuck in your foot...

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...

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