Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death

Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death
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Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9781506715384
ISBN-13 : 1506715389
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death by : Nicholas Gurewitch

Death arrives in this darkly humorous and brilliantly illustrated tale created by Nicholas Gurewitch, author of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack! Death becomes a patient of a recently-bereaved psychoanalyst. The topic of discussion? His frolicsome child, who has no apparent interest in grim-reaping! Featuring an unfathomable number of lines which have been hand-chiseled into inked clay, this labor of love by Nicholas Gurewitch invokes the morbid humor of his comic strip (The Perry Bible Fellowship) and the spooky silent-film qualities of the late Edward Gorey.

Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack

Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack
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Publisher : Dark Horse
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1593079885
ISBN-13 : 9781593079888
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack by : Nicholas Gurewitch

The second (and likely final) collection of strips from the award-winning comic series The Perry Bible Fellowship. Spans the entirety of the strip's print run. Bonus features include lost strips, sketches, and a behind-the-scenes interview by Wondermark's David Malki. Also includes an introduction by Diablo Cody.

The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1593078447
ISBN-13 : 9781593078447
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories by : Nicholas Gurewitch

A collection of the abstract "The Perry Bible Fellowship" comic strips includes a selection of never-before-published strips.

Kerry and the Knight of the Forest

Kerry and the Knight of the Forest
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Publisher : Random House Graphic
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781984893291
ISBN-13 : 1984893297
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Kerry and the Knight of the Forest by : Andi Watson

Kerry might be lost in this fantastical middle-grade graphic novel, but that doesn't mean he'll give up! With twists and turns at every part of this adventure, Kerry's adventure is perfect for fans of Amulet and Mighty Jack. It'll just be a quick shortcut, right? After a spirit leads Kerry astray, he finds himself in an enchanted forest filled with mysterious creatures and dark dead ends. The further Kerry travels, the more hopeless his quest seems. . . . To get back to his parents, Kerry will have to find his way, figure out who to trust, make some tough choices about the kind of person he wants to be -- or remain lost in the woods forever. An adventure about fear, loss, and finding your own way, this enchanting story comes to life with a hero that every reader can relate to.

The Photographer of Mauthausen

The Photographer of Mauthausen
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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781682476284
ISBN-13 : 1682476286
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Photographer of Mauthausen by : Salva Rubio

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he spent the war among thousands of other Spaniards and other prisoners. More than half of them would lose their lives there. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of these perverse photos—but only at the risk of his own life, that of a young Spanish boy he has sworn to protect, and, indeed, that of every prisoner in the camp.

Black Sun

Black Sun
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0231067070
ISBN-13 : 9780231067072
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Sun by : Julia Kristeva

This study addresses melancholia, examining the phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy and the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. It describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit which is almost unobtainable.

Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires

Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 81
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ISBN-10 : 9781560976462
ISBN-13 : 1560976462
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires by : Richard Sala

Night is coming and the local baby-sitters club needs an extra sitter. That strange new family in town is expecting four warm bodies... Peculia, that mysterious and clever young waif, returns in her first full-length story!

The Gift of Death

The Gift of Death
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9780226143064
ISBN-13 : 0226143066
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gift of Death by : Jacques Derrida

In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion. "The Gift of Death is Derrida's long-awaited deconstruction of the foundations of the project of a philosophical ethics, and it will long be regarded as one of the most significant of his many writings."—Choice "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of relgion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida."—Booklist "Derrida stares death in the face in this dense but rewarding inquiry. . . . Provocative."—Publishers Weekly

The Cowkeeper's Wish

The Cowkeeper's Wish
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Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Total Pages : 463
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781771622035
ISBN-13 : 1771622032
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cowkeeper's Wish by : Tracy Kasaboski

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Maids

Maids
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 100
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781683963684
ISBN-13 : 1683963687
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Maids by : Katie Skelly

The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents. Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids ― who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent ― shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin’s increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly’s highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.