Nonfiction Graphic Novels

Deux hommes, deux femmes. Amour et désamour pour deux qui s’enlacent et se lassent. L’adultère go beyondé par le graphisme de Kalonji et l. a. finesse du récit de Lydia Frost.

New York. Un hôtel près de significant Park. Par los angeles fenêtre de l. a. chambre, une bouteille de vin, un couple qui s’enlace. Mais l. a. réalité reprend lentement ses droits. Il se lève. Elle, sur le lit, fume en souriant. Elle l’embrasse. Il l. a. repousse. Elle lui have a tendency un bouquet. Un bouquet qui n’est pas pour elle, mais pour Julia, l’épouse de son amant.

make a journey in the course of the geographical regions of hell with a guy whose transitority visitor’s cross gave him a horrifying—and enlightening—preview of its torments. This real account of Sam Bercholz’s near-death adventure has extra in universal with Dante’s Inferno than it does with any of the preferred feel-good tales of what occurs once we die. within the aftermath of center surgical procedure, Sam, an established Buddhist practitioner and instructor, is stunned to discover himself within the lowest nation-states of karmic rebirth, the place he's despatched to realize perception into human agony. less than the tips of a luminous being, Sam’s encounters with a sequence of hell-beings trapped in repetitious rounds of distress and myth disclose to him how an individual’s personal behavior of fiery hatred and icy disdain, of greedy hope and nihilistic ennui, are the resource of terrible agonies that pound cognizance for probably unending cycles of time. Comforted by means of the compassion of a winged goddess and sustained by means of the kindness of his Buddhist academics, Sam finally emerges from his ordeal with renewed religion that even the worst hell comprises the seed of wakefulness. His tale is out there, besides the modernist illustrations of a grasp of Tibetan sacred arts, as a way to proportion what will be discovered approximately awakening from our personal self-created hells and supporting others to discover aid and liberation from theirs.

los angeles jeune Zao Dao ouvre ses carnets de dessins réalisés au jour le jour et nous éblouit par son expertise d’aquarelliste, sa façon légère et virtuose de passer d’un variety à l’autre en toute spontanéité. Dans ces carnets, il y a en germe les futures bandes dessinées de l’artiste.

man Delisle expertly lays the basis for a cultural highway map of up to date Jerusalem, using the vintage stranger-in-a-strange-land standpoint that made his different books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required interpreting for realizing what everyday life is like in towns few may be able to trip to. In Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Delisle explores the complexities of a urban that represents quite a bit to such a lot of. He eloquently examines the effect of the clash at the lives of individuals on either side of the wall whereas drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, site visitors jams, and holidays.

When watching the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that decision Jerusalem domestic, Delisle's drawn line is either delicate and reasonable, assuming not anything and drawing every little thing. Jerusalem showcases once again Delisle's mastery of the travelogue.

this is often 1775. With the struggle for Independence enjoying out around the colonies, Seth and Mercy Abbott locate their new marriage validated at each flip because the calls for of the frontlines and the house entrance collide. Rebels details the epic tale of the colonists who, in a couple of brief, turbulent years, created the country of the USA. Collects Rebels #1-#10. * An all-star workforce of artists lead by means of Andrea Mutti! * the total run of Rebels comics in a single assortment. "Poignant and so really powerful."-PopMatters "A lush, special global filled with rugged characters."-IGN

Après un most popular tome (2012) encensé par l. a. critique, un deuxième en sélection officielle à Angoulême en 2015, Asaf Hanuka livre ses nouveaux instantanés, journey à journey et à l. a. fois, cyniques, tendres, drôles et poétiques. On retrouve avec bonheur le citoyen désenchanté, le mari subjugué, le propriétaire dépité, l’artiste dubitatif et le père fusionnel et angoissé, bref, à los angeles fois un personnage terriblement attachant, un regard d’une infrequent subtilité sur le monde et une remarquable inventivité graphique.

Voici le témoignage de Guy-Pierre Gautier, grand-père de l’auteur, survivant de Dachau. Engagé en 1943 dans los angeles brigade « Liberté » des francs-tireurs et partisans de l. a. Rochelle, il s’emploie à des sabotages de voies ferrées et au renseignement. l. a. bravoure côtoie l’insouciance.A l’arrestation du réseau, les difficultés commencent avec les interrogatoires par l. a. gestapo, une mutinerie de los angeles legal d’Eysses, les fusillés. Le cauchemar s’installe lors du voyage infernal en wagons à bestiaux jusqu’à Dachau. Le braveness masque alors à peine los angeles frayeur.Le récit poignant d’un survivant, jour après jour, souffrance après souffrance, jusqu’à l’apparition de l. a. silhouette colossal d’un gi américain qui annonce l. a. fin du cauchemar le 30 avril 1945.

"I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years ahead of the tip of communism in Poland. My father works at a manufacturing unit, my mom at a dairy. Social difficulties are at their peak. Empty shops are our day-by-day bread. i am fearful of spiders, and the realm of adults does not look like a stroll within the park." advised from a tender girl's viewpoint, Marzena Sowa's memoir of a early life formed through politics feels remarkably clean and rapid. based as a sequence of vignettes that construct on each other, MARZI is a compelling and robust coming-of-age tale that portrays the tough realities of lifestyles at the back of the Iron Curtain whereas retaining the typical wonders and interest of formative years. With open and interesting artwork via Sylvain Savoia, MARZI is a relocating and resonant tale of a regular woman in turbulent, altering times.

Fritz Haarmann, einer der brutalsten Serienmörder Europas, arbeitete als Spitzel für die hannoversche Polizei. Nacht für Nacht durchstreifte er die Wartesäle des Bahnhofs auf der Suche nach jungen, allein reisenden Männern. Mit Hilfe seines Polizeiausweises konnte er das Vertrauen seiner Opfer erlangen. Er führte sie in seine Wohnung, vergewaltigte sie und biß ihnen im Sexualrausch die Kehle durch. Obgleich es über Jahre immer wieder Anzeigen gegen Fritz Haarmann gegeben hat, konnte er ungehindert sein mörderisches Treiben fortsetzen, gedeckt von der Polizei und umkreist von skrupellosen Schmarotzern, die aus Haarmanns Treiben ihren Vorteil gezogen haben. Eine unheimliche Geschichte in düster-beklemmenden Bildern.

Assembled from paintings performed in Anders Nilsen’s sketchbooks over the process the 12 months following the loss of life of his fiancée in 2005, The End is a suite of brief strips approximately loss, paralysis, ready, and transformation. it's a proposal album in several types, a meditation on being attentive, an abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, reflecting the development of his fight to reconcile the good upheaval of a loss of life, and discovering a brand new lifestyles at the different aspect. The booklet blends Nilsen’s disparate types, from the enduring simplicity and collaged drawings of his Monologues for the arriving Plague to the finely renderedDogs and Water and Big Questions. initially published in journal shape in 2007, The End has been up to date and multiplied to greater than two times its unique size, together with a 16-page full-color section.