The young and restless of Yop City just cant seem to catch a break. Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubreries world-renowned and critically acclaimed series about 80s life in the Ivory Coast continues with Aya: Face the Music. After getting thrown in jail for organizing a student housing protest, Aya must grapple with the aftermath of her decisions. Her friends dont have it much easier. Her classmate Cyprien has been unconscious since police violently broke up their demonstration, and his family can barely scrape together funds for treatment. Her dear friend Albert, last seen passing out at dinner with his family, awakes in the countryside in the clutches of a healer his father has hired to pray his gay away. In France, Alberts ex-paramour Inno agrees to enter into a fake marriage with his friend Sabine with surprising results. And back in Abidjan, embattled starlet Bintou must find a way to capitalize on the publics newfound sympathy after her house is burned down by an angry mob. Translated by Abidjan-based writer and activist Edwige Rene Dro, this contemporary classic of Ivorian literature bridges the gap between the past and present, proving that no matter how much things may change, we change with them too.

Seeped in flamenco rhythms, a heros journey of love and hope Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her surroundings. At times, the isolation is unbearable. Until she meets her flower. Her flower gives her purpose: a reason to get up each morning, to ring the bells of the town, to wake up the fields, and to feel alive. And yet a relentless thought eats away at herwhat will happen once her flower dies? Her quest to save the flower begins alongside a charming traveler from the land of mirrors.The pair embark on a journey filled with music, swimming holes, and folk tales whispered late into the starry night. They march through the fields to the beat of turtledove calls, occasionally stopping to get drunk off the fruits of the strawberry tree. Slowly Antonia opens up to the world beyond her town, to the people who inhabit itand to the endless possibilities of community and friendship. One of Spains most successful contemporary illustrators, Maria Medems atmospheric storytelling bursts with sensorial delightbrimming with engrossing sounds, flavors, and tactile sensations. With impeccable line work and an enchanting use of color, Medem spins a heartfelt meditation on loneliness, friendship, and the transformative power of love. Translated from Spanish by Aleshia Jensen and Daniela Ortiz.

The mournful, tragicomic tune of wanderlust undercut by the longing for a home seemingly lost Have I settled down yet? The question rings eternal across all ten stories in this highly anticipated debut collection of comics fiction by New Yorker and New York Times contributor Michael D. Kennedy. A series of individuals leave the West Indies and attempt to find their footing in the damp dinge of Englands counties. A child on his daily trike ride is stalked by a sinister, shape-shifting ligahoo. A blues singers wife hallucinates untoward revelations in the grips of high yellow fever when she inhales spores from psychedelic mushrooms growing unchecked in their apartment. A man dwells on his absent father, paints the man into a duppy myth, and bears the consequences of this fantastical undertaking. Inspired by the folk tales and oral traditions of his Caribbean roots, Milk White Steed is a dreamlike venture into the messy truths of everyday West Indian lives: the abiding pursuit of the familiar and the vicious appraisal of their own otherness, all at once. Phantom desires, unchecked reveries, and surreal visions of the future flood the page in full-color. Kennedys decisive woodcut-inspired brush-strokes draw a striking portrait of the Black diaspora as it sees itself, always searching and yet forever seeing.

Rick Geary turns his pen from vintage true crime to whimsy in Daisy Goes to the Moon, an adaptation of a novella written by Mathew Klickstein inspired by the real-life Victorian author Daisy Ashfords successfully published juvenilia, co-written with her parents. Gearys version stars little Daisy herself and pastiches everything in his unique visual stylization from Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz to late-19th-century and early-20th-century comics: Daisy is lured to adventure by a rokitship as she decides to go to the moon with a man named Mr. Z. They encounter many-eyed monsters, time travelers with TVs, her duplicate, a troobador, and more delights and vexations. Geary places his expressive, clean-line black-and-white figures, each with distinct body language, in ornate frames to denote settings and narrative layers. Theres rollicking verbal and physical comedy as characters (sometimes literally) bounce off each other. Gearys rare artistic gift of being able to depict ornate period detail without sacrificing storytelling clarity or fun pairs perfectly with Klicksteins imaginative writing. Showcasing elements of Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, and Antoine de Saint-Exupry, the book will delight readers as they discover Daisy's playful, madcap space adventures.

In this volume: What profound insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? Whats with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum Bill Bee take him? These are just some of the questions that are beside the point in this collection of the hauntingly surreal, yet amazingly tender/violent adventures of Krazy Kat, Ignatz, and Offisa Pup.With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century.

For almost three decades, master cartoonist Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have never been collected until now. Featuring over a dozen short stories (spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, Goes Like This is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks and exposed spine) of Crane's work. The Hand of Gold is a short but grim Weird Western, a morality play in which an accidental crime leads a criminal to a supernatural maximum security cell. Below the Shade of Night" presents an anxiety that is rooted in the follies and ignorance of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Vicissitude maps uncharted territory of graphic melancholia via a tale of infidelity. Trash Night" depicts the troubled relationship of Dee and Leo, with mounting tension and mistrust that reaches a boiling point. In The Dark Nothing, a rare foray into science fiction, the three-person crew of prospecting ship Sagasu 17 attempt to harvest an asteroid, and things go horribly awry. The Middle Nowhere begins with a man waiting in a small shack. All around him is a black sand desert. The wind rises, the rain comes, and it just might be the end of everything hes known. Also featuring additional prints and drawings from the author's archives, Goes Like This is a tantalizing sampler of one of the most brilliant cartoonists working today.

In 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams. He encounters them at a time in their careers when both are wrestling with their respective record companies to be better taken seriouslyin some cases just to be heard. Previously unpublished, these landmark interviews provide the opportunity to compare, among other things (upbringing, education, influences, loves and losses), the thought processes behind Cohen and his music (Ive always admired the people who could write great songs in the back of taxicabs like Hank Williams. I was never one of those guys) to Williams and hers (See, Im trying to dispel the myth that you have to be miserable and suffering and so on and so forth to be able to write).I Like People That Cant Sing allows us to read the minds, so to speak, of these nonpareil singer-songwriters over three decades after the fact. Whether its the sometimes prickly Williams, protecting her time and privacy, or the ever-elegant Cohen, openly discussing his bouts with depression, the book sometimes reads like an intimate conversation (Williams discussing her estranged brother), other times as a late-night confession (Cohen on the breakup of his marriage). Includes a heartfelt foreword recounting her relationships with Cohen and Nelson by Suzanne Vega.

Donald Duck doesnt want much in life: just a great plate of pancakes and to be a better treasure hunter than Uncle Scrooge! And for everyone in town to follow his perfect example, and for his whole family to be superheroes! Wait a minute, this is getting wacky but the mystical E-Genie, an all-powerful being housed in a smartphone, is here to grant Donalds wackiest wishes before you can say App-acadabra!Its Donald Ducks 90th anniversary, and a corps of European Disney comics masters is bringing his magic makeover to life in an all-new feature-length graphic novel! Can Scrooge McDuck, Daisy, Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Cousin Fethry save Duckburg from Donald and our birthday boy from himself?

Grand Electric Thought Power Mothercollects six of Lale's past / omnipresent / futuristic minicomics. Previously printed in one-color Risograph, Lale has adapted these stories of woman & machine for juicy, three-color spot offset. In addition, find one new, neverbeforeseen story, writing from the artist, and more. Presented by Perfectly Acceptable Press.

It's the long-awaited complete (and completely mind-blowing) Jeffrey Lewis analysis of Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen! Musician/cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis has been writing and lecturing on Watchmen worldwide since 1997; now he collects this work into one enlightening and entertaining volume. This is an essay book that carefully justifies itself, a mega-zine of rare depth and insight. Get ready for a dazzling close look at the hidden themes and symbolic interplay that combine to make Watchmen tick. No matter how many times youve read Watchmen you'll never see it, or any comic book, the same way again!