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Best American seriesMadden, Matt.
Summary: Retells the same one-page comic 99 different ways to illustrate the interaction between format and content. Inspired by Raymond Queneau's 1947 work. Provides a model that can be used by novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chamberlain Bros. 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MADMadden, Matt
Summary: "Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Uncivilized Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 MADZidrou
Summary: Ulysses is a 59-year-old widower who, since retiring, has been in the grip of loneliness. The former moving man is without direction or purpose. He can't even find solace in the company of his children: his daughter is dead, his son consumed by work. Mrs. Solenza is a 62-year-old former model. Once a magazine cover star, she now runs the family business: a cheese shop owned by her late mother....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ZIDSummary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESAbel, Jessica.
Summary: A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions--provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 AbeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.51 ABERubio, Salva
Summary: "Before the legend, before the man, there was Django Reinhardt the child. In order to grow from a banjo prodigy living in the Romani 'Zone' outside Paris into the master of Gypsy Jazz guitar who would go on to play with Duke Ellington, Django would first have to endure the agonizing event that would change his life: the fire that burned his hand and almost destroyed his future. Django, Hand on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REINHARDT, DJANGO RUBRubio, Salva
Summary: "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. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2020