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Kjærlighet kan være et våpen, kjærlighet kan inspirere fanatisme som overgår enhver barrikadestormer. Kjærlighet kan være terror og å forelske seg kan være det verste avgjørelsen i ditt liv. Norske tegneserier har ikke vært bortskjemt med romantikk siden 80-tallet.

Volle gjør sin egen vri på temaet.

Karstein Volle står bak den legendariske søndagsstripen, Fakta fra verden, og har laget tegneserier sammen med Knut Nærum. Dette er Volles tiende bok på Norsk.

Signering 18. november!

Boken består av to selvbiografiske bildesuiter, akvareller, "I get along without you very well", og "Maureen flytter". Den kan ses på som en frittstående fortsettelse av kritikerroste "There's no place like home" fra 2020. Baird har alltid bodd tett sammen med sin mor og sine tre barn. Nå har alle barna flyttet hjemmefra, og moren måtte flytte til et eldrehjem. Rått og personlig om tomhet og tilkortkommenhet.

Vanessa Bairds bilder egner seg svært godt i bokform, siden uttrykket hennes er så distinkt og litterært, ofte med inspirasjon fra eldre bildebøker og vignetter. "I get along without you very well" er den femte boken No Comprendo Press utgir av Vanessa Baird. Tidligere utgivelser, som alle er i salg: "You can't keep a good rabbit down" (2009), "Ulven og reven" (2013), "Red herring. Prednisolon ciclosporin" (2016) og "There's no place like home" (2020).

Vanessa Baird (f. 1964) er innkjøpt til Norges viktigste samlinger og har hatt flere separatutstillinger i Norge og internasjonalt, og offentlige utsmykningsoppdrag.

This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most innovative storytellers of all time.

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story ― actually, stories ― of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined the medium ― war, romance, horror, crime, the supernatural, etc. ― but in a mysterious, uncategorizable, and quintessentially Clowesian way that rewards multiple readings.

Five years in the making, Monica marks the apex of creativity from one of the defining voices of the graphic novel boom over the past quarter-century. A new book from Clowes is always a huge event in comics and literary circles; Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023.

En fremmed kommer til landsbyen, og han har en snodig virkning på gallerne. Plutselig legger det seg en uvanlig harmonisk atmosfære over landsbyen. Det selges ikke dårlig fisk lenger. Villsvinene er ikke redde lenger. Hele Gallia virker fredelig. Hele? Neida! Trekk pusten ... og fyll hodet med positive vibrasjoner fra DEN HVITE IRIS, albumet som vil gjøre deg gjennomført harmonisk ... eller ei. Etter albumene Italia rundt på tvers (2017), Gallerhøvdingens datter (2019) og Griffen (2021) vender våre helter tilbake i nok et nytt, forrykende eventyr. Den hvite iris er det femte albumet tegnet av Didier Conrad, men i år har han fått en ny manusforfatter på laget: Fabrice Caro, alias Fabcaro.

E = mc(2) . A world-changing equation and a wild head of hair are all most of us know about one of history's greatest minds, despite his being a household name in his lifetime and an icon in ours. But while the broad outlines of what Einstein did are well known, who he was remained hidden from view to most...even his closest friends. This is the story of a scientist who made many mistakes, and even when he wanted to be proven wrong, was often right in the end. It's a story of a humanist who struggled to connect with people. And it's a story of a reluctant revolutionary who paid a high price for living with a single dream. In Einstein, Jim Ottaviani and Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait of the scientist whose name has become another word for genius.

A collection of tales featuring Soichi, the uncanny and hilarious hero of the Junji Ito world!

“I’ll get you for this… I’ll show you true horror!”

Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsujii family, chews nails and makes them clatter and clack as he spouts horrific curses to bring about the most bizarre happenings. Whether it’s summer holidays or a birthday party, Soichi can turn any occasion into a nightmare in a heartbeat. What is the terrible secret of his origin? Meanwhile, tormented by his little brother’s never-ending pranks, older brother Koichi has a soundproof room built. But why does it have a series of four doors? And then there’s the strange phenomenon surrounding the handmade casket their grandfather left behind. What on earth—or hell—has the family seen there?

Ten tales that celebrate the sinister and hilarious world of Junji Ito’s favorite antihero, Soichi!

A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history--the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today.

It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year, a guerrilla army camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers training for armed revolt. Then, in 1966, two high-school students dropped off bombs at factories, causing fatalities. What was behind these concerted, often bungled acts of terrorism, and how did they last for nearly eight years?

In Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the hearts and minds of Quebec citizenry and Canadian politics. There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than FLQ--the Front de lib ration du Qu bec (or, in English, the Quebec Liberation Front). The original goal of this socialist movement was to fight for workers' rights of the French majority who found their rights trampled on by English bosses. The goal became ridding the province of its English oppression by means of violent revolution.

Using dozens of obscure and long-forgotten sources, Oliveros skillfully weaves a comics oral history where the activists, employers, politicians, and secretaries piece together the sequence of events. At times humorous, other times dramatic, and always informative, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? shines a light on just how little it takes to organize dissent and who people trust to overthrow the government.

Two cult-favorite Japanese artists present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stories, with hypnotic illustrations that will appeal to fans of Junji Ito

Franz Kafka’s work is given vivid new life in this collection of manga adaptations of 9 of his greatest stories.

With spectacularly detailed, otherworldly illustrations, the brother-and-sister duo known as Nishioka Kyodai create a haunting, claustrophobic visual world for Kafka’s surreal masterpieces.

Features adapted versions of:

The Metamorphosis

A Hunger Artist

In the Penal Colony

A Country Doctor

The Concerns of a Patriarch

The Bucket Rider

Jackals and Arabs

A Fratricide

The Vulture

Among the standouts are "The Metamorphosis" and "A Hunger Artist," which present absorbing moments for their unique art style to offer vivid entry points into Kafka's world and which take the immersion experience to a whole other level.

Eldo Yoshimizu, the creator of the epic Yakuza Manga, Ryuko, teams up with Benoist Simmat to create another dazzling crime tale.

Aiko Moriyama studied religious art at the Sorbonne, but her research in occultism quickly led her down a dangerous path. When several experts around her come under attack from a mysterious entity rising from the depths of the web, she finds herself embroiled in a police investigation involving the sinister leader of an international organization. From London to Tokyo, between transhumanism and black magic, Aiko is determined to solve the enigma of Gamma Draconis and to discover how exactly her family is involved...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan’s poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan.

Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island’s pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of the War. The first collection, Sword of Sand, is a ground level, unflinching look at the horrors of the Battle of Okinawa. Higa then turns an observant eye to the present-day in Mabui (Okinawan for “spirit”), where he explores how the American occupation has irreversibly changed the island prefecture, through the lens of the archipelago’s indigenous spirituality and the central character of the yuta priestess.

Okinawa is a harrowing document of war, but it is also a work which addresses the dreams and the needs of a people as they go forward into an uncertain future, making it essential reading for anyone interested in World War II and its effects on our lives today, as well as anyone with an interest in the people and culture of this fascinating, complicated place. Though the work is thoroughly about one specific locale, the complex relations between Okinawan and Japanese identities and loyalties, between place and history, and between humanity and violence speak beyond borders and across shores.

Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga and reads back to front and right to left.

Black & white illustrations throughout

Ett homosexuellt par flyr staden från en annalkande apokalyps. De möter en annan konstnär på vägen och deras förhoppningar och planer ändras. Den finska allkonstnären Jaakko Pallasvuos "Reträtt" är en postmodern tolkning av dystopisk-genren, i vilken när han utforskar de motstridiga ideologierna och känslorna i en queer kärlekstriangel som utspelar sig under en tid där mänskligheten närmar sig utplåning. En uttrycksfull, sardonisk återgivning av kärlek, rädsla och leda inför undergången. "Reträtt" tar slitna narrativa troper i uppfriskande nya riktningar.

Jaakko Pallasvuo är numera förmodligen mest känd för sitt instagramkonto avocado_ibuprofen, som har 100 000 följare. Han har varit aktiv som konstnär, skribent och serietecknare i många år innan dess. Han har ställt ut över hela världen och tidigare givit ut böcker på finska, franska och engelska. Efter flera års medverkan i tidskriften Det Grymma Svärdet är detta hans svenska debutbok.

Denna självbiografiska serieroman handlar om besatthet, könsroller och självförverkligande, berättad med en uppriktighet som få serietecknare är kapabla till.
Lusts uppföljare till sin första internationella storsuccé "Idag är första dagen på resten av ditt liv" (på svenska 2012) fortsätter direkt där dess föregångare slutade. Avslöjande och kraftfullt berättar Lust om sitt liv som en ung,entusiastisk anarkist i Wien på 1990-talet - och om sin kärlek till två män: den "perfekta följeslagaren" Georg, en skådespelare som är tjugo år äldre, och den "perfekta älskaren", Kimata, en nigeriansk invandrare. I takt med att hennes relationer med de två männen utvecklas ökar svartsjukan alltmer och leder till känslomässiga och våldsamma utbrott som hotar hennes liv.

Ulli Lust är född i Wien 1967 men bor sedan många år i Wien. Hennes förra bok på svenska belönades med Urhundenpriset för bästa översatta seriebok.

Abby is settling into married life: making coffee, cooking for David and her stepdaughter Crystal, spending evenings curled up together in front of the TV. For a quiet woman without many friends, she's proud of the life she has built, and desperately wants to believe they will all be happy. But what really happened to Crystal's mother, the artist who no-one speaks of? What secrets does their strange house by the water harbour, and what of Abby's old dreams and fears, of Lady Grey, the Knight and the Dragons?In her chilling return - a story of grief, ghosts, and the struggle to be true to oneself - Emily Carroll casts another unforgettable spell.
 

The true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose “Golden Voice” helped define Cambodia’s Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. Developed in partnership with Sothea’s family.

There is a saying in Cambodia: Music is the soul of a nation. Perhaps no one embodied that spirit more than Ros Serey Sothea, a young woman who would forever change the landscape of Cambodian music as the Queen with the Golden Voice.

From a humble rice farmer to nationally recognized singer, Sothea’s success captured the hearts of the Khmer people. Throughout her career, she recorded over 500 songs, her signature angelic voice soaring over genres from traditional ballads to psychedelic rock and beyond.

As the Cambodian civil war raged, Sothea's singing career continued to flourish, even when she served in the army as one of the country's first female paratroopers. After years of bloody conflict, the communist Khmer Rouge seized control, murdering artists and destroying their music, bringing Cambodia's golden age into a dark era of silence. Sothea’s fate is unknown.

Ros Serey Sothea's golden voice lives on in the popular music of Cambodia to this very day. Gone but not forgotten, her legacy continues to inspire. The Golden Voice tells the story of Sothea’s life, developed alongside the surviving family who knew her, and accompanied by an interactive soundtrack.

What is our relationship with physical and emotional environments? How do we react to and live in the world around us? This book explores the dimensions of how geography affects the psyche, from the known to the unknown. In colorful, gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations, the transformation of landscapes from immediate and personal to fantastical and nostalgic captures the sense of place. Viewing each image creates your own personal experience of space. Starting with more immediate spaces and ending with faraway planets, this book is an emotional, creative journey.