New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011. First edition - "Sci-fi adventure meets love story - and East meets West - in Mangaman, an original graphic novel for teens. Ryoko, a manga character from a manga world, falls through the Rip into the real world - the western world - and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.. . 'Panel-holed' for being different, Ryoko has to figure out how to get back to his manga world, back through the Rip . . . all while he has hearts for eyes for a girl from the wrong kind of comic book. . . Lyga writes a metafictive masterpiece as manga meets traditional Western…
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011. First edition - "Sci-fi adventure meets love story - and East meets West - in Mangaman, an original
graphic novel for teens. Ryoko, a manga character from a manga world, falls through the Rip into the real world - the western world - and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.. . 'Panel-holed' for being different, Ryoko has to figure out how to get back to his manga world, back through the Rip . . . all while he has hearts for eyes for a girl from the wrong kind of comic book. . . Lyga writes a metafictive masterpiece as manga meets traditional Western comic book style, while Colleen Doran combines manga techniques and conventions with Western comic book." 126 pp.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (book published as a trade paperback original. )
New York: HarperPerennial, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - "From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. . . a funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman." INSCRIBED on the first page where the author has drawn a cartoon balloon from her photograph and added the comment "Hi,…
New York: HarperPerennial, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - "From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. . . a funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. Through deft storytelling and charming illustration, MariNaomi carries us through first love and worst love, through heartbreak and bedroom experimentation, as she grows from misfit teen to young woman." INSCRIBED on the first page where the author has drawn a cartoon balloon from her photograph and added the comment "Hi, it's October 15, 2010. Yay! xoxo" Slightly oversized format. 331 pp.
Seattle: Jet City, 2014. A very dark short story of a "handler" - of corpses - and his search for something better by George Martin, illustrated and adapted by Raya Golden. Nominated for the Hugo for Best Graphic Novel. Unpaginated (24 pp). ISBN: 978-1477848845.
Houston TX: Penny-Farthing Press, 2004. First edition - The limited edition preview issued for ComicCon in July 2003 and the first 4 issues of the original publication in comic book format of this graphic novel, a psychic-science fiction thriller. Publisher's Weekly called it "a standout. Moore and his crew of artists. . realize that menaces are more frightening when they're only glimpsed in oppressive shadows.. . Back in the 1980s, a giant underground supercollider apparently went wild and released radiation that killed everyone present. It's been sealed ever since. Now, the lead experimenter's daughter, who's grown up shunning science, accompanies an exploratory team reentering the gloomy site, where they find no bodies, no radiation, just the word "PARA" scrawled…
Houston TX: Penny-Farthing Press, 2004. First edition - The limited edition preview issued for ComicCon in July 2003 and the first 4 issues of the original publication in comic book format of this graphic novel, a psychic-science fiction thriller. Publisher's Weekly called it "a standout. Moore and his crew of artists. . realize that menaces are more frightening when they're only glimpsed in oppressive shadows.. . Back in the 1980s, a giant underground supercollider apparently went wild and released radiation that killed everyone present. It's been sealed ever since. Now, the lead experimenter's daughter, who's grown up shunning science, accompanies an exploratory team reentering the gloomy site, where they find no bodies, no radiation, just the word "PARA" scrawled on the walls in blood. Threatening, wraithlike creatures, government treachery and portents of the end of the world soon ensue. The supercollider's deserted tunnels are spooky in themselves, and Para's art team uses their darkness effectively as background for the explorers' personal conflicts." Covers by Stephan Martiniere. Each issue 30-32 pp with interior drawings in full color. Preview is 10 pp with the contents in black and white, bound dos-a-dos with a preview for Captain Gravity.
New York: Random House, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book in this highly praised and award-winning series of graphic adventure stories for older childen. illustrated in full color throughout. "In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn." SIGNED on the title page by author Boya Sun. Author R. J. Pallacio called this series "Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read." 341 pp plus some bonus material on world building, a sneak preview into the character development, etc. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1101935927.
New York: Picador, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Cartoon illustrated stories behind some of the most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to post-it notes and the microwave oven. "Structured around the different locations in our home and daily life - the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, and the grocery store - [this] traces the often surprising and sometimes complex histories behind the items we often take for granted. Readers learn how Velcro was created after a Swiss engineer took his dog for a walk; how a naval engineer invented the Slinky; a German housewife, the coffee filter; and a radical feminist and anti-capitalist, the game Monopoly. SIGNED on the first page by…
New York: Picador, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Cartoon illustrated stories behind some of the most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to post-it notes and the microwave oven. "Structured around the different locations in our home and daily life - the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, and the grocery store - [this] traces the often surprising and sometimes complex histories behind the items we often take for granted. Readers learn how Velcro was created after a Swiss engineer took his dog for a walk; how a naval engineer invented the Slinky; a German housewife, the coffee filter; and a radical feminist and anti-capitalist, the game Monopoly. SIGNED on the first page by the author-illustrator and dated in October 2016, in the month of publication. He has also added a balloon comment to the cat "History is awesome." Index 206 pp. ISBN: 978-1250078650.
New York: Random House, (2019). SIGNED hardcover - Humorous graphic novel for middle grade children, the fifth in this series featuring the robot from another plant, Hilo, and his friends. "Find out more about what really happened on Hilo's world before he came to earth." SIGNED on the title page. Color by Steve Hamacker. 195 pp. ISBN: 978-1524714963.
Racine, WI: Whitman, 1943. Hardcover - An original story about The Bumstead Family of the famous newspaper comics, radio series & motion pictures "Blondie". Illustrated. Bound in blue boards with orange lettering.
Condition: Good condition (the usual age-toning to the paper, edgewear to the boards, slight spine slant.)