A collection of twelve analytical essays about the popular mass-circulation comic by Neil Gaiman addresses particular Sandman episodes and story arcs while examining its creator's achievements in relation to his other works. Original.

A second collection of graphic short stories, previously published in various magazines and anthologies throughout the past five years, includes personal and semi-autobiographical works that draw on the author's childhood and adolescent experiences. By the author of Queen of the Black Black and Artichoke Tales. Teen.

An illustrated alternate-world tale in which graphic novels are a dominant form of fiction traces the careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, who meet in a Parisian bar to discuss the particulars of their work, the achievements of graphic giants Dostoevsky and Faulkner, and the recommendations of such contemporaries as Gertrude Stein. Original.

Zombified NATO soldiers and mummified foreign dictators in a Balkan comics convention? The 1999 Nato bombing of Serbia. A grenade shell from a Sarajevo souvenir shop. A refrigerator with the frozen mummy of Tito These serve as the starting point for a journey further and further down the collective unconscious of the Balkans, where the borders between dream and reality are erased and redrawn until they form a tale as exciting as it is fantastic, a tale which could be about our times and a war-torn Europe but just as well might be a deep dive into the psyches of its authors or a discussion about the essence of drawing. Bosnian Flat Dog is the result of a unique collaboration between two of Sweden's most internationally renowned cartoonists, Death and Cand and Pixy creator Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson. Each of them contributed to every single drawing to the extent that they no longer can tell themselves exactly who did what. This has lead to the emergence of an independent artistic entity which is neither of the two, but something else, at once familiar and unknown and perhaps a little bit scary.

A new installment of a quarterly anthology includes John Pham's "221 Sycamore Street," Paul Hornschemeier's "Life with Mr. Dangerous," and additional contributions by such artists as Night Fisher's R. Kikuo Johnson and McSweeney's David Heatley. Adult.