Moto Hagio's a Drunken Dream and Other Stories

Moto Hagio's a Drunken Dream and Other Stories
Author: Moto Hagio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781606993774

Fantagraphics Books is proud to launch its manga line with MotoHagio's collection of short comics, A Drunken Dream and Other Stories.Hagio is one of Japan's most influential and critically lauded comicsinnovators; she has been reinventing shojo manga (Japanese comics marketed at10-18 year-old girls) since 1969. Unconstrained by boundaries of genre, she hassculpted a career characterized by intellectual curiosity, psychologicalauthenticity, and an esthetic sense that has elevated the shojo genre into theliterary. In "Autumn Journey" (1971), a boy's pilgrimage tothe home of his favorite author has more meaning than either the author or hisdaughter can imagine. In "Marie, Ten Years Later" (1977), twoestranged friends learn too late how their actions had destroyed the balance ofa perfect triad of intimacy. In "A Drunken Dream" (1980), twoscientists--one a hermaphrodite, the other a tribal priest--meet on aspace station orbiting Io; but they have met before and are destined to meetagain. In "Iguana Girl" (1991), a girl who appears to her mother andherself to be a hideous anthropoid iguana struggles to overcome hermother's rejection and find happiness ... but her mother has a secret.Learn for yourself why the creator of They Were Eleven! (adapted into an animereleased on DVD in 2005) continues to garner international critical praise andappeals to readers across ages and generations.

Otherworld Barbara

Otherworld Barbara
Author: Moto Hagio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9781683960232

In the conclusion of the shojo manga pioneer's sci-fi mystery, a man tries to save his son before the world ends...but which world, and which son?

The Heart of Thomas

The Heart of Thomas
Author: Moto Hagio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Boarding school students
ISBN: 9781606995518

The legendary and enigmatic Heart of Thomas, by Moto Hagio, was inspired byJean Delannoy's 1964 film, Les Amities Particulieres. Set in an early 20thcentury German boarding school, thirteen-year-old Thomas commits suicide,leaving behind a note professing his love for his fourteen-year-old maleclassmate Juli. Thomas double appears at the school, and Juli must decipherfeelings.

Himeyuka & Rozione's Story

Himeyuka & Rozione's Story
Author: Sumomo Yumeka
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0316227455

Won't you share a scribble-covered dream with me? Intent on being an independent young woman, high schooler Himeyuka lives on her own in an unremarkable apartment complex in a corner of the city. But one day, she discovers her ordinary building has turned into something extraordinary! Her beloved "castle" is covered in childish scribbles-both inside and out! And waiting for her at the end of this rainbow-colored mess...is the perpetrator of the crime-a little boy named Rozione, who seems to know quite a bit about Himeyuka, though she has no idea who he is. Is he really just someone's lost child, or is there a greater mystery behind his appearance? In this collection, Sumomo Yumeka presents four charming, melancholy vignettes that explore the trickling of time and the machinations of the heart.

Berlin

Berlin
Author: Jason Lutes
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2020-05-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1770463828

Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism. During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens—Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world’s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.

Nijigahara Holograph

Nijigahara Holograph
Author: Inio Asano
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-03-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606995839

Fantagraphics is proud to welcome the great Inio Asano (Solanin, What a Wonderful World!) to its acclaimed literary manga line. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body of Arié Kimura’s mother is found by this tunnel’s entrance, next to apparently human traces, the legend seems to be confirmed. Is the end of the world coming? In order to appease the wrath of the beast, the children decide to offer it a sacrifice: The unfortunate Arié, whom they believe to be the cause of the curse, is shoved into a well that leads to the Nijigahara tunnel ― an act that in turns pushes Komatsuzaki, the budding thug who has carried a torch for Arié for a while already, entirely over the edge. But this is only the beginning of the complex, challenging, obliquely told Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines and involves the suicidal Suzuki; Higure, his stalkerish would-be girlfriend; and their teacher Miss Sakaki, whose heavily bandaged face remains a mystery; and many more ― brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, teachers, aggressors and victims who are all inextricably linked to one another and all will eventually ― ten years later ― have to live with what they’ve done or suffered through.

Lil' Leo

Lil' Leo
Author: Hagio Moto
Publisher: DENPA, LLC
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1634429796

Two-year-old Leo is not your average house cat. One day he notices his young neighbor Tatsuru on his way to elementary school and he then decides to follow him and enroll himself! After finding his own backpack and school equipment, young Leo realizes that anything Tatsuru can do, he can do as well! And best of all, since he is a feline he can do it all with a style and flair all of his own. Leo can go to school! Leo can live on his own! Leo can find a part-time job or even be chef! Eventually Leo's life is full of wonderful memories, but it could have taken a very different turn if not for those who loved him.

The Poe Clan

The Poe Clan
Author: Moto Hagio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781683962083

One of the best-selling manga - by one of the most decorated cartoonists in the world - comes to the U.S., starring vampire teens.

An Invitation from a Crab

An Invitation from a Crab
Author: panpanya
Publisher: DENPA, LLC
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1634429214

If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight.

Film Noir 101

Film Noir 101
Author: Mark Fertig
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014-08-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606997599

Collecting 101 noir movie posters of, arguably, the greatest noir films ever made (including classics The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity). Reproduced in a stunningly designed, over-sized format that shows off the spectacular visual elan of Hollywood movie posters at their best, the book is not only a spectacular showcase of film noir art, but also establishes the crucial films and identifies their key characteristics, with critical commentary on each film by author and scholar Mark Fertig. This is an ideal handbook for noir rookies, a valuable resource for old-hats, and a visual feast for fans of film noir and American entertainment art.