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One of the world’s greatest cartoonists, Lewis Trondheim, tells the exciting life story of a common housefly. From the fly’s birth to his inevitable end, we see everything this creature goes through simply to survive... from the fly’s perspective. We guarantee you’ve never looked at your kitchen the way the fly does. While there’s plenty of humor, there’s thrills and chills as well, especially when the fly meets a spider. You may never have liked flies before, but once you meet this little guy, you may be surprised how much you can like a fly.
Mister I, who just can't stay out of trouble, usually make s poor decisions and winds up dead.
After two years of unemployment, Maggy Garrisson lands a secretarial job. Too bad her new boss is the shady, chaotic Anthony Wight: private detective and alcoholic. But a job is a job, and Maggy could use the cash. Five days into her new role, Wight is beaten to a pulp and Maggy is tasked with returning his wallet. With this seemingly innocuous request, Maggy enters a sinister underworld of corrupt cops, crooked businessmen, and career criminals. There's a lot to investigate, from the disappearance of a family album to the theft of gold teeth from bodies at the crematorium. But for someone with the energy, ingenuity, and enterprising spirit of Maggy Garrison, puzzles are there to be solved--especially if there's money to be made in the process.
A personal account of an Iraqi childhood Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her family’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one’s homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life...
It's a "lost" 1965 Disney epic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in tantalizing fragments... or is it? When Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge's Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down--in what is really a brand-new album-length thriller by comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas: told in an amazing indy style and presented like a treasure suspended in time!
Twelve adventures of Ethelbert, the six-year-old spoiled-rotten king of Porto Cristo, whose childish edicts keep his subjects jumping.
From the prolific artist and writer whose multitude of fresh ideas and wry humour are literally taking comics by storm comes this suspenseful, fully silent graphic novel which delves into the world of Christmas. You have no idea what Santa is going through up there at the North Pole. Besides the huge yearly job that faces him, the North Pole is no friendly place! Santa must use all his best cunning to make the world's kids happy. A light, delightfully original album for Christmas that will amuse all ages.
McConey and his buddies can't wait to hit the mountain for winter vacation. Skiing, relaxing, dance parties, and card games... Just what the doctor ordered to get away from it all. Except nothing goes as planned, starting with the mysterious wolf on the prowl that's gobbling up skiers and closing down resorts! A brilliant and off-beat tale to hold you over until your next run down the slopes.
The planet Terra Amata had stopped turning, on one side is total darkness and coldness, on the other is a searing desert and eternal day. The survivors live on a thin slice of earth where day and night meet, known as Twilight. Marvin, old and blind, goes on a long trek to the legendary cemetery of dragons.
Artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War, seeking instead to instill the medium with experimental and avant-garde tendencies commonly associated with the visual arts. This book addresses this transformation.