For the first time, the history of typography is told in comic strip form
Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, in product packaging, and on political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we respond.$9.99ISBN: 9781684152919Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: BOOM! Box - January 1st, 2019The story of one woman’s quest to move to Los Angeles and got a job in animation...and how you can too.
When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California.$29.99ISBN: 9781626720251Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: First Second - July 2nd, 2019Following their New York Times-bestselling graphic novel Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick deliver a gripping biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time.
$14.95ISBN: 9781621067672Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Microcosm Publishing - September 10th, 2019Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking acceptance, attempting to overcome internalized demons, and reacting to harmful and oppressive systems--punk rock embodies and emboldens all our feelings and experiences, positive and negative.
$19.95ISBN: 9780374537913Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hill and Wang - June 4th, 2019On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.
$16.99ISBN: 9781568585598Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Bold Type Books - May 9th, 2017Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the different characters in the story.
$29.99ISBN: 9780316501217Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Black Dog & Leventhal - October 3rd, 2017A New York Times Notable Book of 2017!
Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's.
$22.95ISBN: 9780674744431Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Harvard University Press - April 20th, 2015The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking.
$17.95ISBN: 9780809033614Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hill and Wang - December 20th, 2011Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.
$24.95ISBN: 9781770461352Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Drawn and Quarterly - November 12th, 2013A fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga
$19.95ISBN: 9781620972823Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: New Press - January 16th, 2018PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism
$19.99ISBN: 9780760346228Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Zenith Press - October 1st, 2014Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II - saw action in this battle.
