During his 45th year of life A singular voice in cinema, (Movies in Focus) and One of genre's most exciting filmmakers (Indiewire) decided to make a comic book. After the release of three startling, award-winning movies that have played around the world and been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, S. Craig Zahler wanted to return to his first artistic passion-illustration. With tools that he had developed as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, novelist, and songwriter, he committed himself to writing, drawing, inking, and lettering his graphic novel debut, a full-length work of noir horror entitled, Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus. Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers-a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy-seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain. Fans of Bone Tomahawk (recently named best film of the decade by Conan O'Brien) will enjoy Zahler's return to the supernatural, and the idiosyncratic, tough guy dialogue found in his crime pictures Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (both of which premiered at the Venice Film Festival) is also present in this starkly rendered, black-and-white graphic novel, a stylistic confluence of pre-code horror, vintage comic strip, and modern indie art styles.

From Brian McDonald, storyteller extraordinaire, comes a remarkable nonfiction graphic novel about the art of storytelling. Wielding his massive experience from film, TV, comics, and more, Brian McDonald lays out a history of storytelling and shows the reader how the best tales tug at our truest biological instinct: the need to survive. Readers will see how different forms of survival - physical, emotional, spiritual - inform the arc of character development in a way that makes them more complex and compelling. And how plot and circumstance must then force the protagonist to meet their worst nightmare. Toby Cypress’s electric art guides the reader through the underworld, visualising each narrative masterpiece, and bringing the ideas to life.

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with a young adult graphic novel romance about a hotheaded hockey player who asks for temper management lessons from the cool, calm boy in drama club.

The fifth installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling Adventure Zone graphic novel series, a meta-fictional D&D adventure story based on the smash hit podcast. The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, and this time it’s . . time? A small mining town called Refuge has been locked away behind an arcane bubble, and somewhere inside it the Temporal Chalice is causing unknown mayhem. Taako, Magnus, and Merle are launched into their investigation, but they’ve barely had a chance to get their feet under them before the situation literally falls apart. When the town clock strikes noon, Refuge and its citizens are destroyed in a sudden chaos of flame and ruin, and our heroes’ relic hunting - along with their lives - comes to an abrupt end. But whoa, what’s this? It’s 11:00 AM, our heroes are alive again, and Refuge definitely hasn’t just been exploded. Looks like a classic time loop, friends.

In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian Box Brown show how Putin has successfully cast himself as a cunning, larger-than-life political mastermind - and how the rest of the world has played into the Kremlin's hands by treating him as one. They shatter all of these myths and expose the man behind the facade.

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Disney Masters Vol. 19: Mickey Mouse: Trapped in the Shadow DimensionVol. 20: Donald Duck: 20,000 Leaks Under the SeaFirst: the villainous Peg Leg Pete turns up where Mickey expects him least: “Trapped in the Shadow Dimension,” a surreal realm in which fiction becomes fact! Then Scrooge McDuck squares off with “The Terrible, Terrible Triple-Dimensional Beagle Boy” while in “The World to Come,” Mickey and Minnie head to far-off Illusitania for a robot war with that dastardly, poetic superspy, The Rhyming Man! Next: in “20,000 Leaks Under the Sea,” Donald’s cuckoo-bananas cousin Fethry has a submarine! He’s roping desperate Don into a two-week treasure hunt on the ocean floor and a bear-taming trip to Duckburg’s deepest woods—and a mission to cure hiccups with scary rural remedies! This complete collection of Donald and Fethry tales also includes trouble for Uncle Scrooge’s fortune in “It’s Only Money” and Donald’s love life in “A Midsummer’s Nightmare!”Fantagraphics’ Disney Masters series unearths a treasure trove of previously unavailable comics epics in the grand Walt Disney tradition: expanding the lore of Mickey, Donald, and Scrooge, anthologizing the work of fan-favorite North American talents, and bringing you the best of the acclaimed international artists who have popularized Disney around the world.

Disney Masters Vol. 17: Mickey Mouse: The Man from AltacrazVol. 18: Uncle Scrooge: Pie in the SkyFirst, in “The Man from Altacraz,” Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle—but another master criminal is using both Bloogle and Mickey to get his hands on a priceless treasure! In “Risky Bees-ness,” the Beagle Boys hit Uncle Scrooge with a sting; and in "The African Queen," Goofy falls in love with Zenobia, ruler of a lost jungle kingdom and Mickey's troubles are just getting started!Next: in “Pie in the Sky,” when Scrooge enters the infamous Flitterwobble Airplane Show as a stunt pilot, he ends up defending his priceless antique Sopwith Two-Seater plane from the bombastic Baron Von Strudel! In “The Amazon Queen,” Scrooge sells a cursed necklace to a fellow treasure collector. And in “Another Vine Mess,” a rare Patagonian Wirevine attacks Donald’s house with ferocious, duck-destroying greenery!Fantagraphics’ Disney Masters series unearths a treasure trove of previously unavailable comics epics in the grand Walt Disney tradition: expanding the lore of Mickey, Donald, and Scrooge, anthologizing the work of fan-favorite North American talents, and bringing you the best of the acclaimed international artists whohave popularized Disney around the world.

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Curated by Josh Mills (son of Edie Adams, Kovacs's wife and a performer on his show), Edie/Ernie archivist Ben Model, and counterculture historian Pat Thomas, the book offers a unique glimpse into the mind of a pioneering comedian. The first Kovacs book to be published in 30 years, this impressive collection features previously unpublished Ernie photos, drawings and writings, vintage 1960s magazine articles reprinted for the first time, and new essays by Ann Magnuson and Ron Mael of Sparks.Saturday Night LiveMonty PythonMystery Science Theater 3000Strangers with CandyThis is Spinal Tap