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A selection of titles from the UK's most respected graphic novel publisher.
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TITLE: GHOST HUNT VOLUME #1
Creators: Fuyumi Ono and Shiho Inada
Pages: 224
Format: 190 x 127mm Paperback
The
decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try
to tear it down, 'accidents' start to happen – people get hurt,
sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the
rumours that the creepy old high school is haunted – possibly by ghosts
from the Second World War. So one rainy day they gather at the old
school to tell ghost stories, hoping to attract one of the suspected
spirits.
No ghosts materialise, but Mai and her friends do meet Kazuya Shibuya,
the handsome young owner of Shibuya Psychic Research, who’s been hired
to investigate paranormal activity at the school. Also at the scene are
an exorcist, a Buddhist monk, a woman who can speak with the dead, and
an outspoken Shinto priestess. Surely one of them will have the talents
to solve this mystery. . .
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Price: £6.00
TITLE: GHOST WORLD
Creator: Daniel Clowes
Pages: 80, Format: US, Two Colour Perfect Bound
Ghost World tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner. Clowes captures them with uncanny skill, raising the comic book to new heights.
Mature readers only
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Price: £8.00
TITLE: JIMMY CORRIGAN
Creator: Chris Ware , Pages: 380
Format: Landscape Paperback. Perfect bound
"Jimmy Corrigan is a dazzlingly handsome book with every detail lovingly attended to. The book is demanding, disturbing, funny and exciting. Oh yes, and essential." - Time Out
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback.
"Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going." - Claire Armitstead, Guardian
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Price: £12.00
Creator: Joe Matt
Format: 228mm x 152mm Paperback Pages: 180
Meet Joe Matt, a
talented cartoonist with strong ideas about how life should be
lived. He makes no apologies and never compromises. Well, almost
never. Actually, Joe Matt is a painfully honest man who doesn’t mind
admitting – in print, in cartoon form – that he has one or two
flaws. Just minor ones.
The Poor Bastard is his neurotic, compelling and utterly
shameless account of some of the most personal details of his life.
With the timing of a stand-up comedian, he leaves no aspect
untouched, from the disintegration of personal relationships to the
grim realities of life in a Toronto rooming house and his obsession
with pornography – or, as Joe prefers, “nature films”. Watch as he
alienates lovers and friends in a candid and hilarious story about
his ruthless quest for a woman who understands him and meets his
ridiculous standards.
This is Joe Matt: neurotic, compulsive, cheap, self-absorbed –
human. And funny.
suitable for mature readers only
Price: £12.00
TITLE: SCHOOL RUMBLE VOLUME #1
Creator: Jin Kobayashi
Pages: 192 Format: 190 x 127mm Paperback
She
. . . is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming
question: will the boy she likes ever really notice her?
He . . . is the school’s most notorious juvenile delinquent and he’s
suddenly come to a shocking realization: he’s got a huge crush, and now
he must tell her how he feels.
Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated
anxieties, and raging hormones – School Rumble portrays high school as
over-the-top comedy!
Price: £6.00
TITLE: TAMARA DREW
Creator: Posy Simmonds
Pages: 136
Format: 260 x 225 mm Hardback
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different
wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and
thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for
the fun of it.
People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village
where her late mother lived Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here
she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a
seductress. To the village teenagers she is ‘plastic-fantastic’, a role
model. Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to
tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless marriage wrecker, a
slut.
First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form
Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by
the author.
Mature readers only
Price: £16.00