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Every girl knows this, all these Saturday nights that stretch until dawn and cannot end. Coming back home with a hangover, broken heart and a strange guy on top of that. "Disco Cry" is an account of one of these nights that leave memories you'd rather not have. Marianna wittily uses paper as a means to explore her fondness for ornaments. Impatient drawings and wild colours, increasingly intense as the night progresses, reach a climax at the end of the story. An amusing read that will calm your conscience after a sleepless night. Just beware of men in crocodile shoes. --Klara Sladkova, No Ordinary Heroes I haven't read it but I like it. --Jenny, Tooting Broadway
We hope the empty space hasn't visited you yet. But it's possible that before it comes, it's already been with you for ages. Then, as it says itself, it'll be with you always. Empty space cannot be drowned in tears, you cannot pretend it is not there. You can only tame it.
This adventurous and comic tale told by a talking plank recounts the winding and capricious life story of a plum pit given to escapades. Screenwriter, comic book creator and author, Vojtech Masek, exhibits a sense for lively, nearly theatrical, storytelling and returns absurdist humour and biting levity to the children's literary scene. Abundant linocut illustrations and graphics by artist Chrudos Valousek are, as always, stunning.
Elephant on the Moon is a richly illustrated tale of courage, passion and determination. Although it is directed mainly at younger readers, it refers to serious events. Sir Paul Neal in the seventeenth century - one of the astronomers of the Royal Society - is supposed to have been the first to observe an elephant on the moon. At the time, his discovery provoked much confusion and fired the imaginations of many writers. Thanks to Samuel Butler's satirical account, the story reached France. Fontaine himself wrote a tale about it - 'Un animal dans la lune'.
"Can you distil the essence of a country into just 100 words? We think so. 'Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Word' will make you fall in love with a country with one of the most unusual histories out there. It'll also show you how languages intersect and whole cultures arise, and make you realise just how interwoven our world is. Along the way, you'll find out why quarks are made from curd cheese, learn what elephants have to do with a Central European country, and discover how pierogi saved an entire town. Plus, you'll get to enjoy 100 illustrations by Polish graphic designer Magda Burdzyńska"--Back cover.
Woken up from a catastrophic dream, a man finds a diary behind his front door and starts to read it. He follows a story of a man who embarked on a cruise to Africa. The ship was sunk by a tsunami but he survived and found himself on a mysterious desert island. The plot is composed of strange stories whose peculiar character is highlighted by the author's stylised language. A journey into the unknown provides an opportunity to show the true face of modern man whose life remains unchanged even after a disaster. There is an inherent fallibility to Sie� „czyk's characters, as well as inability and unwillingness to change. Stranded on a desert island, they don't take any action â€" they simply recount incredible stories and wait to be carried along by the tides of fate.
In the year 982 Erik Torvaldsson, also called Erik the Red, left Iceland after a bloody neighbour feud. He went out to find a mysterious island to the north. He found it and called it Greenland, so that many people would follow him. Thanks to gifts and bribes, he ruled his colony unchallenged by Christian priests and kings, all the way to the beginning of the year 1000 A.D.
There's a human story behind every disaster. How would you react if, one day, you had to abandon everything you have? This is a story of one of many families that were forced to leave their homes after the tragic accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. They were told that they would return after a few days but it was too late - the invisible enemy had already claimed all their possessions and occupied their houses and land for years to come. It's been over - years since the events of but it's nothing compared to the tens of thousands of years that will have to pass before the radioactive waste is no longer a hazard. This graphic novel is a tribute to those who personally experienced the consequences of nuclear power that had got out of control. In their story - which aims neither to shock nor cause controversy - Francisco Sanchez and Natacha Bustos look from a distance at three characters who, though fictional, could very well be real. The authors make their readers u
Staring from the Hill talks about the every-day reality of a group of friends who, above all, cherish their mutual company, music and juice. And similar to Gaudi's works all of that is served with a handful of surrealism, love of colour, light and form, and a gigantic dose of vision. There are only two things which are certain: One, that shortly you will reach yet another astounding floor, and the other, that at the end of it you will be lead to the rooftop adorned with a ceramic dragon, where you can see a really beautiful panorama of Barcelona.
Ready, steady... and we're off! 50 Amazing Athletes shows sportspeople pushing their minds and bodies to the limit in the greatest athletic contests on earth. Who will win medals... and who will win hearts? The reader discovers what real sportsmanship is made of through profiles of the greatest sportspeople through the ages. Whether the athletes stuck out through godlike physical ability or incredible determination and willpower, they all have one thing in common: the courage to go a step beyond the finish line.