Biography & Memoir

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 9781683969242Author IgortFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

An internationally-renowned cartoonist and reluctant war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II. Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's historical and autobiographical account of Japanese life...

A graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women's rights, gender expression, and sexual liberation A scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century...

Although Amazon.com is now selling more than 3,000 commercial products bearing Betty Boop's image, including calendars, tote bags, coffee mugs, and books about how young women can be more like Betty, no one has ever published a book about Betty herself...

The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life.-I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey.-Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip!-You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910775134Author Warren PleeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BHP ComicsPublisher BHP Comics

Between Two Sounds follows the life of world-famous composer Arvo Part from his birth in Estonia in 1935 through 1980, when the Soviets forced him to emigrate because of the nonconformist and religious nature of his music.Based on years of research and...

UK webcomic star Sarah Graley and her partner Stef chronicle their exciting travel adventures to the U.S. and Canada, featuring San Diego Comic-Con, New York City, and Toronto, all packaged in a handy box set! Whether it's bonding over beers cooled in...

She's lonely and searching for connection. He's lonely, but afraid to reach out. But is finding someone else really the answer to their problems? CRUSHING, an illustrated misadventure in love and loneliness, is a story told in silence - a story...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306874Author Alan BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution?Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a city once known to be a vibrant cultural center of the...

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.

Herge created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide. The Real Herge: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes an in-depth look at the man behind the cultural...

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an urgent graphic memoir on police brutality and anti-Blackness in twenty-first-century Amerikkka'The Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics' GARRY TRUDEAU, CREATOR OF DOONESBURY'You won't be able to put it down'ALISON BECHDEL,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965220Author Hector German OesterheldFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke - the political gears begin to turn, plunging the...

--- GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR --- --- OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH --- THE GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC NOVEL A story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times. On the eve of the US elections, a...

From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring's life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment. This graphic novel looks at every stage of that...

It is the 4th century B.C.E in Greece. Hipparchia is about to marry the rich son of a family friend when she meets Crates. As the wedding day approaches, Hipparchia becomes increasingly captivated by the views and way of life of this strange philosopher...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646866390Author Christy Anne JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Of Mountains & MushroomsPublisher Of Mountains & MushroomsWeight(grams)...

Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay-an...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509858Author ElleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel tore away layer after layer of linoleum from the floor of his $97-a-month Manhattan apartment until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of The New York Daily News and the Mirror...

With his son grown and his marriage dissolving, Xavier, a 48-year old writer, finds himself deep in the heart of a mid-life crisis. Setting out on his own, he finds emotional freedom and true independence. When he meets Leah, a young and vibrant artist,...

In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured...

The true story of a spirited young woman whose brilliant mind is caught in the grip of mental illness, known as bipolar disorder. In constant flux between transient euphoria and utter despair, Camille attempts to decode her mind and treat her illness...

THE AWARD WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FATHER, AND THE CHALLENGES HE FACES RAISING HIS AUTISTIC SON. A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a...

In the spirit of essayist David Sedaris and monologist Spalding Grey, SEAGLE and 19 emerging global cartoonists take drawn storytelling into the world of the "graphic essay." nineteen stories of global attitudes about the naked body balance raw...

Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns with another chapter in his growing library of reflective memoir, producing his most compelling and strongest tale to date. Chronicling a year of heartbreaks, writer's block, career highs, emotional lows, and the...

**2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year: Silver Award Winner in Graphic Novels & Comics Category** **Recommended by The New York Public Library as one of its 50 best comics for adults****A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection**Traitor or hero?...

A TRUE STORY and expose on Drug Trafficking in Europe! Now a hit Netflix show!In Cocaine Coast, journalist Nacho Carretero and illustrator Luis Bustos tell the incredible true story of how a sleepy, unassuming corner of Spain became the cocaine...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509001Author Ben PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912278220Author Jaromir 99Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala LtdSeries Life

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912278190Author Jiri FrantaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala LtdSeries Life

Some heavy reading on the ecological and climate emergency leads Cedric, a forty-something painter living in Paris, to question his life choices. In a state of vulnerability, racked with eco-anxiety, he is contacted by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau:...

"There was never a place for [Isadora Duncan] in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths." - Dorothy Parker In 1899, performing in the drawing rooms of London's elite, Isadora Duncan was already...

Pickles Yin is a final year student at a prestigious art school struggling to live up to her own expectations of how to navigate the transition from education to career. Surrounded by nepotism, Pickles' friend Radish suggests an alternative method to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394360Author Tom CritesFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908030283Author Serge BaekenFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Soaring Penguin PressPublisher Soaring Penguin Press