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Cover for Akira Volume 5 featuring a mostly green illustration of a boy with lean muscles emerging from a mass of wires and a cloud of smoke. Background is an interior of a metal mechanical room.
Katsuhiro Otomo - Akira Vol. 5
$ 27.99
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Book cover for "Life Drawing" by Jaime Hernandez, featuring an illustration of 2 girls in bathing suits - one holds the other's hand excitedly and the other covers her eyes while laughing.
Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection - Jaime Hernandez
$ 24.99
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Martin Cendreda - Bare Foot Riot cover, parade of various cartoon creatures walking with objects in hand.
Martin Cendreda - Bare Foot Riot
$ 12.00
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Book cover, "Oinshinbo" written in white font on green rectangle above series of black and white panel drawings of a Japanese restaurant serving vegetable hot pots. "Vegetables" is written in middle right.
Oishinbo: Japanese Cuisine - Vegetables
$ 12.99
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Book cover for "One Little Goat" by Dara Horn and Theo Ellsworth of a goat inside of a patterned design within another circular design. A child jumps out the top of the design.
One Little Goat - Theo Ellsworth and Dara Horn
$ 18.99
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One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
$ 14.00
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Paul Hornschemeier - All And Sundry : Uncollected Work 2004-2009
Paul Hornschemeier - All And Sundry : Uncollected Work 2004-2009
$ 29.99
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Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family looks off with curious expressions and wears blankets. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons 2 - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Records of the Seasons 2 by Saki Obata
$ 25.00
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Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family sits at a table and shares a cake with sparklers on top. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Records of the Seasons by Saki Obata
$ 25.00
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Cover for "Second Hand Love" an illustration of a woman in a simple line art style, in purple moody lighting. She has short hair and looks over her shoulder, holding a flower behind her back.
Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki
$ 24.95
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Steven Weissman - Chocolate Cheeks cover, divided comic panel of cartoon children playing in a river.
Steven Weissman - Chocolate Cheeks
$ 16.99
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Illustrated cover of "Secret Life" by Theo Ellsworth. A nicely dressed crying man looks at the viewer while holding a yellow gourd. Background is a busy pattern of many drawn faces.
Theo Ellsworth - Secret Life
$ 24.95
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Book cover for "Understanding Monster (Book Three)" of a portrait, shoulders up, of a monster made up of many, many smaller symmetrical monsters.
Theo Ellsworth - The Understanding Monster (Book Three)
$ 21.95
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Book cover for "Understanding Monster (Book Two)" of a portrait, shoulders up, of a person wearing a dome helmet with a scene of a tiny person inside a bed with a monster at the foot of their bed.
Theo Ellsworth - The Understanding Monster (Book Two)
$ 21.95
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Small blue zine, "You Can't Do It!" with the "t" in can't being penciled in by a small fluffy cartoon creature, who also writes "Give up" under the title.
You Can('t) Do It! Zine by Cassia Lupo and Lauren Denitzio
$ 10.00
Book cover for "Life Drawing" by Jaime Hernandez, featuring an illustration of 2 girls in bathing suits - one holds the other's hand excitedly and the other covers her eyes while laughing.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a girl and her friend trying to get into a building.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of several people.
Book cover for "Life Drawing" by Jaime Hernandez, featuring an illustration of 2 girls in bathing suits - one holds the other's hand excitedly and the other covers her eyes while laughing.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a girl and her friend trying to get into a building.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of several people.

Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection - Jaime Hernandez

$ 24.99

136 pages, 9.4 x 11.6 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.

Two Latinas, separated by a generation, hinder and help each other find their place in a world they never made.

Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love—both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighborhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well.

Life Drawing showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures involving: Tonta's self-involved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Muñeca; her colorful pals Gomez, Judy Fair, and Brown Alice; her mother, the infamous 'Black Widow of the Valley'; and of course, the two great loves of Maggie's life, Ray and Hopey. There's also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the medium's most wide-eyed romantic. Did we mention the weddings?


Martin Cendreda - Bare Foot Riot cover, parade of various cartoon creatures walking with objects in hand.

Martin Cendreda - Bare Foot Riot

$ 12.00
Softcover, 4.5" x 5.5", Color and Black & White

Giant Robot is proud to publish Bare Foot Riot, a collection of sketches by up-and-coming indie comics artist Martin Cendreda. The Los Angeles-based illustrator has worked on Comedy Central's South Park TV show and movie, but Cendreda is most proud of his Zurik Robot and Dang! mini-comics. Beginning with cute-yet-melancholy one-panel gags, his work has evolved into longer forms of storytelling that maintain his clear-yet-spontaneous style and dark humor. He made the jump from self-published, stapled-and-folded pieces to the indie comics elite when Top Shelf published a collection of his strips in 2004.

Click here to see a page of sketches.

Click here to see a color spread.

Book cover, "Oinshinbo" written in white font on green rectangle above series of black and white panel drawings of a Japanese restaurant serving vegetable hot pots. "Vegetables" is written in middle right.
Page example, black and white manga panel of two characters discussing farming health.
Book cover, "Oinshinbo" written in white font on green rectangle above series of black and white panel drawings of a Japanese restaurant serving vegetable hot pots. "Vegetables" is written in middle right.
Page example, black and white manga panel of two characters discussing farming health.

Oishinbo: Japanese Cuisine - Vegetables

$ 12.99
Paperback, 8.25" x 6", 272pp, Black & White

Weekly Time magazine sets up a series of culinary battles between the Tozai News's "Ultimate Menu," represented by Yamaoka, and the Teito Times's "Supreme Menu," represented by Kaibara Y zan, Yamaoka's father and nemesis. The ingredient this time is vegetables, specifically cabbages and turnips. Who will win the Vegetable Showdown? Later, Yamaoka and Kurita help Tomii's son get over his hatred of eggplant and patch a rift between lovers using the power of asparagus.
Book cover for "One Little Goat" by Dara Horn and Theo Ellsworth of a goat inside of a patterned design within another circular design. A child jumps out the top of the design.
1 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.
Book cover for "One Little Goat" by Dara Horn and Theo Ellsworth of a goat inside of a patterned design within another circular design. A child jumps out the top of the design.
1 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.
2 page excerpt of black and white panel comics - telling the story of a boy having Passover seder with his family.

One Little Goat - Theo Ellsworth and Dara Horn

$ 18.99

152 pages, 9.8 x 6.9 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.

A lost afikoman, a time-traveling talking goat, and a never-ending seder illuminate the meaning of Passover in Dara Horn’s hilariously deadpan graphic novel.

A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman―the hidden matzah required to end the meal―and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it―and to discover the questions he needs to start asking. black-and-white throughout


One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata
One Year by Saki Obata

One Year by Saki Obata

$ 14.00

Measures 5.83 inches x 8.27 inches, paperback, 36 pages. Edition of 300.

In recent years, Japanese illustrator Saki Obata has worked on numerous illustrations both in Japan and overseas, including illustrations for the British magazine MONOCLE, promotional comics for the American magazine tokyobike.us, grade level characters for the Japanese Language 4 Volumes 1 and 2 Kagayaki (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing), and cover illustrations for other books. She serialized a manga in the magazine Haha no Tomo (Fukuinkan Shoten) from 2023 to 2025.

 

Paul Hornschemeier - All And Sundry : Uncollected Work 2004-2009

Paul Hornschemeier - All And Sundry : Uncollected Work 2004-2009

$ 29.99
Hardcover, 7.75" x 10.25", 208pp, Full Color

All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009 collects Paul Hornschemeier's work from the last five years. These works span mostly periodicals to European museums, including: drawings and comics created for an exhibit in Paris; an award-winning cover exhibited in London; the seventeen-part serialized tale "Huge Suit Visits the People" created for the celebrated German newspaper Frankurter allgemeine Zeitung:; and a few US comic strips for The Wall Street Journal and CNN. The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks, demonstrating the variety and depth of the artist's interests and pursuits. All and Sundry invites an examination of the entirety of Hornschemeier's process, from first fevered scrawl to final, pristine brush line.
Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family looks off with curious expressions and wears blankets. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons 2 - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
2 page excerpt, featuring a page with a single line of text in English and Japanese. Other page features an illustration of a woman standing in her kitchen, looking out an open sliding door.
2 page excerpt, featuring 2 simple line art illustrations, one on each page. Left page features a girl sitting at a table with a plate of green grapes, looking sad. Right page features a woman alone in a full bathtub.
2 page excerpt, featuring 2 simple line art illustrations, one on each page. Left features a woman dressed business casual, eating street food. Right page features an illustration of a woman dressed for Halloween, carrying treats for the holiday.
Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family looks off with curious expressions and wears blankets. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons 2 - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
2 page excerpt, featuring a page with a single line of text in English and Japanese. Other page features an illustration of a woman standing in her kitchen, looking out an open sliding door.
2 page excerpt, featuring 2 simple line art illustrations, one on each page. Left page features a girl sitting at a table with a plate of green grapes, looking sad. Right page features a woman alone in a full bathtub.
2 page excerpt, featuring 2 simple line art illustrations, one on each page. Left features a woman dressed business casual, eating street food. Right page features an illustration of a woman dressed for Halloween, carrying treats for the holiday.

Records of the Seasons 2 by Saki Obata

$ 25.00

Measures 5 7/8 inches x 8.25 inches, paperback, 146 pages.

Follow along through beautiful and elegantly simple illustrations pages, a new iteration of the four seasons, a story in a year as depicted by Japanese illustrator and designer, Saki Obata. 

 

Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family sits at a table and shares a cake with sparklers on top. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations, one on each page. First is of 2 people stoking a fire outdoors from a tall cylinder. Other features 2 students inside of a classroom, with empty cubbies. One sits atop a heating unit and the other reads a book.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations spanning both pages. A exterior sidewalk setting with iron gates, lampposts and tall trees. A woman carrying lots of bags stands in the middle, looking off the the side.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations of a woman, dressed in a suit coat and long pleated skirt. She holds a tube in her hand and does 3 different poses. Looking, writing with chalk, and covering her crying face.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other. Drawing is of a woman facing away, looking over the side of a fenced waterway with a long stick in one hand.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other that says "Fall." Illustration is of 4 women on a porch, 3 waving goodbye and the other standing and waving, ready to go back inside.
Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family sits at a table and shares a cake with sparklers on top. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations, one on each page. First is of 2 people stoking a fire outdoors from a tall cylinder. Other features 2 students inside of a classroom, with empty cubbies. One sits atop a heating unit and the other reads a book.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations spanning both pages. A exterior sidewalk setting with iron gates, lampposts and tall trees. A woman carrying lots of bags stands in the middle, looking off the the side.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations of a woman, dressed in a suit coat and long pleated skirt. She holds a tube in her hand and does 3 different poses. Looking, writing with chalk, and covering her crying face.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other. Drawing is of a woman facing away, looking over the side of a fenced waterway with a long stick in one hand.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other that says "Fall." Illustration is of 4 women on a porch, 3 waving goodbye and the other standing and waving, ready to go back inside.

Records of the Seasons by Saki Obata

$ 25.00

Measures 5 and 7/8 x 8.25 inches, paperback, 160 pages, black and white.

Follow along through beautiful and elegantly simple illustrations pages, the four seasons, a story in a year as depicted by Japanese illustrator and designer, Saki Obata. 

 

Cover for "Second Hand Love" an illustration of a woman in a simple line art style, in purple moody lighting. She has short hair and looks over her shoulder, holding a flower behind her back.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters eating and talking.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters talking.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters talking.
Cover for "Second Hand Love" an illustration of a woman in a simple line art style, in purple moody lighting. She has short hair and looks over her shoulder, holding a flower behind her back.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters eating and talking.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters talking.
Page excerpt, black and white comic panel of 2 characters talking.

Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki

$ 24.95

Softcover, 228 pages, black and white. Measures 6.1 x 8.4 inches.

In the end, we’re all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another human’s beating heart

Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck…and about becoming his mistress once again.

And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else’s spoiled husband is just what she ordered—until it’s time to move on.

Then there’s Yuko: with even less time for married men’s shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their—both father’s and daughter’s—mirrored indiscretions.

Drawn soon after the critically-acclaimed Talk to My Back, the two stories in Second Hand Love mark the triumphant return of Yamada Murasaki, one of literary manga’s most respected feminist voices. Translated by noted historian Ryan Holmberg, this edition includes an interview with the artist from the height of her career in 1985, where her wit and wisdom are on shimmering display.

Steven Weissman - Chocolate Cheeks cover, divided comic panel of cartoon children playing in a river.

Steven Weissman - Chocolate Cheeks

$ 16.99
Paperback, 7.5" x 7.5", 120pp, Full Color

Hilarious, disgusting, mysterious, and cuter than a puppy playing with a kitten, Chocolate Cheeks is the next great "Yikes" book from Steven Weissman. The Pullapart Boy (a 21st Century Frankenstein's monster for kids), his social circle having dwindled down to his stupid brother (Dead Boy), their dead dog (Elzie Crisler), and a fat kid that nobody likes ("Chubby" Cheeks), attempts to make some new friends. Meanwhile, across town, the Little Tin-Stars (Cow-Boy and Cow-Girl) are in a desperate fight against the forces of nature, hostile natives, a river monster, their own horse and a man called Chocolate Cheeks. Juxtaposing gag-driven, newspaper-fashioned strips (employed to great effect in 2006's Chewing Gum In Church) with the sprawling, Western comic approach of his legendary "Look Out For Big Della" (from 2002's White Flower Day), Chocolate Cheeks is Weissman at his best: stunning, memorable, poignant, hilarious, and just gross enough to delight the children.
Illustrated cover of "Secret Life" by Theo Ellsworth. A nicely dressed crying man looks at the viewer while holding a yellow gourd. Background is a busy pattern of many drawn faces.
Excerpt page from "Secret Life." A 3 page spread of black and white illustrations with story accompaniment.
Illustrated cover of "Secret Life" by Theo Ellsworth. A nicely dressed crying man looks at the viewer while holding a yellow gourd. Background is a busy pattern of many drawn faces.
Excerpt page from "Secret Life." A 3 page spread of black and white illustrations with story accompaniment.

Theo Ellsworth - Secret Life

$ 24.95

184 pages, 8.9 x 6.3 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.

An uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff VanderMeer

To the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor. In Secret Life, Theo Ellsworth uses a deep-layered style to interpret Nebula award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s short story. What emerges is a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home.

When his manager borrows his pen for a presentation, a man is driven to unspeakable acts as he questions the role the pen has played in his workplace success. The despised denizens of the second floor develop their own tongue, incomprehensible to everyone else in The Building. A woman plants a seed of insurgency that quickly permeates every corner of the building with its sweet, nostalgic perfume.

With deft insight, Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural world. As the narrative progresses you may begin to suspect that the world Ellsworth has brought to life with hypnotic visuals is not so secret after all; in fact, it’s uncannily similar to our own.


Book cover for "Understanding Monster (Book Three)" of a portrait, shoulders up, of a monster made up of many, many smaller symmetrical monsters.

Theo Ellsworth - The Understanding Monster (Book Three)

$ 21.95

64 pages, measures 9 x 11.25 tall. Hardcover, full color.

This highly-anticipated third book completes Theo Ellworth's epic adventure, which the New York Times calls "an urgent (and often very funny) attempt to explain a coocoo-rococo cosmology made up of garbled fragments of role-playing games, Transformers episodes, relaxation exercises and horror movies."

Eleanor Davis, author of How to be Happy, writes: "Theo Ellsworth's comics don't make normal sense; they make a sort of super-psychic sense. His stories are filled with pure terror, pure hope, and pure, weird, unwavering love."

In The Understanding Monster - Book Three, our hero, Izadore, awakes to find his mind, body and soul reunited. The last Monks of the Imaginary Man lead him on a journey beyond Toy Mountain to discover the true nature of the relationship between creativity and reality.


Small blue zine, "You Can't Do It!" with the "t" in can't being penciled in by a small fluffy cartoon creature, who also writes "Give up" under the title.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Small blue zine, "You Can't Do It!" with the "t" in can't being penciled in by a small fluffy cartoon creature, who also writes "Give up" under the title.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.
Open two page zine spread with bold text positive mantras, accompanied by a small fluffy cartoon monster saying negative comments.

You Can('t) Do It! Zine by Cassia Lupo and Lauren Denitzio

$ 10.00

* A6 (5.875" x 4.125") zine
* color, card-stock cover
* greyscale interior pages printed on high-quality satin-finish paper
* edition #2 (the first edition was printed as a photocopied version in 2020)
* There are a few curse words in this one so it may not be suitable for your child!

With lettering and layout design by Lauren Denitzio and creature designs and illustrations by Cassia Lupo, this booklet is a funny look at how we can get in our own ways sometimes. We all go through periods of self-doubt or low motivation, and this zine helps to put that sort of negative self-talk into a lighter perspective.

Back insert: "This zine is a reflection on artists' inner monologues inspired by Hayao Miyazaki, Yumi Sakugawa and Grover Monster."