Eleanor Davis
1) Why art?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A treatise on what makes art art, told in graphic novel form.
Author
Language
English
Description
How to Be Happy is Eleanor Davis's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such connoisseurial venues as Mome, Nobrow, and Lucky Peach, as well as her own self-publishing and web efforts. Davis achieves a rare, subtle poignancy in her narratives that are at once compelling and elusive, pregnant with mystery and a deeply satisfying emotional resonance. Happy shows the full range of Davis's...
Author
Publisher
Little Lit Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stinky, a monster who lives in a swamp, gets upset when a boy named Nick starts hanging around his swamp, and so he tries to scare Nick away.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21.5 x 15 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale,...
6) MOME Vol. 7
Author
Series
Mome volume 7
Language
English
Description
This accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology runs approximately 120 pages per volume and spotlights a cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Mome is quickly earning a reputation as one of the premier literary anthologies on the market, and the only one comprised entirely of comics. Hightlights of the seventh and eighth volumes include: the concluding chapters of Lewis Trondheim's "At Loose Ends," an autobiographical diary...