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Love is a many-splendored thing, as comic artist Margreet de Heer has found out through several relationships and her marriage to fellow artist Yiri. How to describe it? Is love passion, stability, friendship, or all of the above? In this comics exploration, the author investigates different questions...

Stepping into Sun Studios in 1954 Elvis Aaron Presley recorded his first single "That's All Right". Little did he know he would soon revolutionize music and culture worldwide. This graphic novel biography starts with the story of "The King's" humble beginnings in Mississippi, detailing,...

Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper, World War 3 Illustrated is a collective of first-time and professional artists who use confrontational comics to shine a little reality on the fantasy world of the American kleptocracy. This full-color retrospective exhibition is arranged thematically,...

Every Spider-Man fan knows Peter Parker's origin story, knows about his clashes with the Green Goblin, and is eager to see actor Tom Holland don the red and blue suit on the big screen. But do you know the genesis of Venom or the Sinister Six? Have you ever tried Aunt May's famous wheatcakes? 100...

For some he was the philosopher of existentialism, for others the constant provocateur, the politically engaged author, the uncertain militant, the repenting bourgeois, the life companion of Simone de Beauvoir… From his first readings in the Luxembourg Garden to his refusal of the Nobel Prize for...

A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs  After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib—the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their...

Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper...

A massacre in Boston. A tea party. A shot heard around the world. But who was the first casualty of the massacre? How did the tea get to Boston Harbor? What was the Battle of Concord like for a Minute Man? Colonial Comics: New England, 1750–1775 expands the frame of this important period of American...

A Record of Attempted Vacations is organized and unaltered documentation of the correspondence between two hyper aware and purpose desperate college students trying to enjoy (or just get through) winter break. A Record of Attempted Vacations was mainly created as a gift from one of the girls to the...

Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.

Le roman le plus emblématique de la littérature française, majestueusement adapté en bande dessinée L'histoire, nous la connaissons tous : dans le Paris grouillant du XVe siècle, une magnifique et jeune gitane danse sur le parvis de la cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. La beauté d'Esmeralda...

Lost in translation En août 2002, Benjamin Reiss s'expatrie à Tôkyô dans le seul espoir d'y vivre auprès de Kayoko, petite amie japonaise rencontrée en France un an plus tôt. De déconvenues en rencontres providentielles, l'aventure, initialement prévue pour durer un an, se poursuivra...

Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work...

5 ans sous Sarkozy compile une série de dessins originaux et d'illustrations publiés dans Marianne, entre autres, à propos de l'actuel président de la République française. Après cinq ans de présidence, découvrez le bilan du "règne" de Sarkozy à travers le prisme affuté et caustique de Tignous, déjà aux commandes de Le Fric c'est capital.