Nonfiction - History
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Salt Green Death
$30.00 Add to cartThe documented experiences of Joseph O’Dwyer, a young man who was institutionalized at one of Canada’s most notorious historic psychiatric institutions.
On November 21, 1948, Joseph O’Dwyer’s suicide
- Author: Thorsen, Katarina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1772621064
- Language: English
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Dr. Werthless
$29.99 Add to cartHe Studied Murder And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry!
From the team behind the award-winning “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” comes a nonfiction graphic novel examining Dr. Fredric Wertham, of- Author: Schechter, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1506744362
- Language: English
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Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy
$29.99 Add to cartFor years, acclaimed artist Drew Friedman has chronicled an oddball, alternate history of American pop culture, where forgotten character actors, old Jewish comedians, comic book artists, and liver-sp… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969340
- Language: English
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Give Me Liberty!: A Revised History of the American Revolution
$20.00 Add to cartFifty years ago, underground cartoonists Gilbert Shelton (ZAP Comix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) and Ted Richards (Air Pirates, The Forty Year Old Hippie) combined their talents to create a mor… [more below]
- Author: Shelton, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000232
- Language: English
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The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years
$29.99 Add to cartThe 4,000-year history of the city of Jerusalem unfolds in an exceptional graphic narrative that touches on the birth of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, as well as famous conquerors and mighty empir… [more below]
- Author: Lemire, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1419777807
- Language: English
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Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque
$44.95 Add to cartAn explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America’s march toward right-wing authoritarianism.
Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of conte
- Author: Valley, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 168219387X
- Language: English
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form… [more below]
- Author: Backderf, Derf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1419734849
- Language: English
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Run: Book One
$24.99 Add to cartFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March–Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell–this is the first book in their groundbreaking graphic n
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 141973069X
- Language: English
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Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$19.95 Read moreIn the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The origins of this
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Tyler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440590
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The Fall of Atomgrad
$19.95 Add to cartThis graphic and harrowing account of nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl in April 1986 follows the dozens of human stories cruelly affected by disaster.
From the engineers and firefighters to doctors and
- Author: Namai, Matyás
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1786751364
- Language: English
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Cities Made Differently
$19.95 Add to cartFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades ou- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549336
- Language: English
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The Beats: A Graphic History
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic
- Author: Pekar, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016494
- Language: English
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling and award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, comes the “deeply researched and gut-wrenching” (New Yorker) graphic novel chronicling the tragic and unfo… [more below]
- Author: Backderf, Derf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1419765469
- Language: English
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$32.50 Read moreIn the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson’s Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic of antiquity- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250270952
- Language: English
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Nat Turner
$19.99 Read moreNat Turner is the fascinating and action-packed true story of an American freedom fighter, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker as a graphic novel–collecting all four issues of his critically acclai… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0810972271
- Language: English
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Conquest: Julius Caesar’s Gallic War
$34.99 Read moreIn 58 B.C., the Helvetii of Gaul leave their homeland, requesting safe passage through Roman territory. Seizing the opportunity to realize his dream of conquering Celtica, Julius Caesar blocks their p
- Author: Ben Yakhlef, Tarek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1775101541
- Language: English
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation
$22.95 Read moreIn stunning full color and accessible text, a graphic adaptation of the American Book Award winning history of the United States as told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples–perfect for readers… [more below]
- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Peart-Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012688
- Language: English
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Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry
$19.99 Read moreHorrific scenes of anti-Jewish violence in Europe filled the newsreels in American theaters in the 1930s and 1940s.
What could be done to make sure it didn’t happen in America? One Jewish organization- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1506737765
- Language: English
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Born in the USA: The Story of Immigration and Belonging
$29.99 Read more- Series: World Citizen Comics
- Author: Goldstone, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250796539
- Language: English
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Japan’s Longest Day: A Graphic Novel about the End of WWII: Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito’s Fateful Decision to Surrender
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of Japan’s surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn’t happen!
In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated- Author: Hando, Kazutoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317795
- Language: English
