Reads Volume Two Issues One to Four - The Complete Collection
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Lights, Planets, People!
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Renowned astronomer, Maggie Hill, is due to deliver a lecture about her astonishing career to a group of science students. She’s also attending her first ever therapy session in order to overcome some debilitating anxiety. Plus, Maggie's heartbroken... but she doesn't know this yet. Through facing first herself and then a group of terrifyingly ambitious and canny young women, Maggie is forced to share her greatest achievements and admit her biggest regrets.
Zebedee and the Valentines
Graphic Novel - Abstract
1982. A pub, somewhere in a small suburban town in the South of England. Zebedee and The Valentines have just played the gig of their lives. The seven people watching them agree. With a big battle of the bands approaching, lead singer Zebedee and his motley crew of punks seem ready to blow up. But when the Devil is booking your gigs and the competition is fierce, was it ever really going to be that easy?
Quiet Thoughts
Graphic Novel - Abstract
Shangguan's warm and lyrical narratives capture fleeting moments and sensations; while her shifting perspectives take in all of existence from the emptiness of space to the intimacy of human interactions. A contemplative journey that explores how it feels to be alive. Karen is an illustrator from Vancouver, Canada who enjoys drawing quiet things such as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. She graduated from Emily Carr University in 2016 with a BFA in illustration.
A City Inside
Graphic Novel - Abstract
Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman’s life from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in.
The Great North Wood
Graphic Novel - Non-Fiction
The magic that once filled the ancient forest can still be felt even when the trees are long gone. Memories of the Great North Wood are recorded in the place names – Forest Hill, Honor Oak, Norwood. Stories are told of the bandits, outlaws and gypsies that once roamed the forest, and their presence can sometimes be sensed when the hum of the city is quiet. Tim Bird’s longest work to date continues his interest in psychogeography and how memories live on in the landscape in The Great North Wood.
Victory Point
Graphic Novel - Adventure
On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in, the picturesque, yet architecturally strange, Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by the constant struggle of trying to forge the path ahead. Exploring a town, which itself is an experiment in how to live, Ellen searches for some comfort in her own history that might just give her the strength to move forward. Victory Point quietly explores the idea of how we choose to live and be remembered.
Between the Billboards & the Authoring of Architecture
Graphic Novel - History
Collecting Pomery's acclaimed self-published series Between the Billboards for the first time, readers will be able to experience the story of existential protagonist James Ebner in a complete edition, as Pomery always envisaged.Collecting Pomery's acclaimed self-published series Between the Billboards for the first time, readers will be able to experience the story of existential protagonist James Ebner in a complete edition, as Pomery always envisaged.
Internet Crusader
Graphic Novel - Satire
Ever have one of those days where you’re talking to a smokin’ hot chick online and she turns out to be a robot working for an evil cult… and that hot chick sends a computer virus masked as dirty pictures… and that computer virus allows Satan to come through everyone’s computers and hypnotise them… but the family computer has parental locks on it so you don’t get the virus… and then God messages you to say you’re the only person on earth who can save human existence?
Marble Cake
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Tracey dreams of a life beyond South London. Beyond her job at the supermarket. Beyond what amounts to now. But in a city where everyone is living their own melodrama, where people are disappearing with alarming regularity and where existence overlaps and separates at every turn, how can Tracey be sure she's the main character in her own life, not just a bit part in someone else's.
Sleeping While Standing
Graphic Novel - Biographies
A series of short autobiographical strips, dropping in at important events throughout her life that shaped who she is today, told in a compelling and humorous authorial voice. We are led by Taki through her early childhood in Japan in the early 80s, to moving to Minnesota, the separation of her parents, childhood trauma, teenage angst, death, drugs, comics, health issues, love, fertility, pets and zombies; all of life is here in this book!