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Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage

Parisian cartoonist La Police’s English-language debut pokes fun at tropes drawn from the pulpier genres, with a thrillingly unique blend of deadpan humor and surreal silliness that is both uproarious and evocative of a fascinating, singular vision.

Poor Helpless Comics!: The Cartoons (and More) of Ed Subitzky

Subitzky’s uninhibited imagination and penchant for absurd humor create a thrillingly revelatory collection, with contributions by cartoonist Mark Newgarden.

Social Fiction

Montellier emerges as a true visionary of the graphic-novel medium and the science-fiction genre in these captivating tales of human beings struggling to retain their dignity under repressive regimes.
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The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff

A smart purchase where New Yorker cartoons are popular, as these put a new spin on the bourgeois genre.

Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos

Featuring page after page of non-stop action and pulpy melodrama imbued with Jackson’s perspective as a Black American in the 1940s, this is a work of immense historical value that’s also very fun to read.

Discipline

Shaw (Clue: Candlestick) eschews panel-to-panel storytelling in favor of overlapping images that flow across pages redolent of an artist’s sketchbook, overlaid with text and narration quoted from letters between Charlie and his sister.
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