A tour-de-force and eight years in the making, this is a powerful, superbly-drawn and deeply moving portrait of a young man coming to terms with his dying father, and with his own life, as he takes care of the old man in his final months. When Nye's father phones to wish him a happy birthday, and reveals he has been 'certified for hospice', Nye slumps down on the nearest doorstep in shock. Unemployment means that he is free to move in to the trailer park where his father lives, and assume ...

The Next Day is a groundbreaking graphic novella built from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. In this poetic and profound philosophical exploration, four seemingly ordinary people each offer haunting personal insights into life, the decision to end it, and what comes after... Selected for The New York Times Reading List.

A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television plus new reporting by Palast for the new edition—a portion of which will be a Rolling Stone cover story, covered in major progressive media outlets which will include radio, television, and webcasts, and feature...

A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. It’s 1977 and Una is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are struggling to solve the case – despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times. As this national news story unfolds around her, Una finds herself on the receiving end of a series...

KENK is an award-winning 300-page journalistic comic book surrounding Igor Kenk, the worlds most prolific bicyclethief (The New York Times, The Guardian). In the summer of 2008, Kenk was arrested and nearly 3,000 bicycles were seized in what became one of the biggest news stories of the year. Built from an incredible mix of found footage, archival material, and filmed interviews taken over the year leading right up to his arrest, KENK is a thought-provoking andsurprisingly funny journalistic ...

FREE sample excerpt of Pop Sandbox' groundbreaking releases, KENK and The Next Day. KENK is an award-winning 300-page hybrid of comic book and long form journalism surrounding "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times), named a Best Book of the Year by Quill & Quire. The Next Day is a groundbreaking graphic novella built from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. Selected for The New York Times Reading List.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.The information in this ebook on various aspects of blogging and related subjects is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.I hope that it will interest those who like to write a diary and blog, or would like to, plus webmasters who need content for their online publications.So, as an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own...

Don Depresso is a clinically depressed freelance writer who does a lot of drugs and pines for his ex-girlfriend. This book contains a collection of almost all the Don Depresso comic strips created from March through September of 2012, along with commentary.The Don Depresso comics series deals with depression as well as other recurring themes, such as drug use and abuse, technology (particularly Linux and open source software), dating and relationships, and what it’s like to be an A...

Most parents photograph their children growing up, but Doodlemum (Angie Stevens) posts a drawing of her children and their family life on her blog every night (after the kids have gone to sleep). She draws everything from holidays to pets, tantrums to camping. All captured in a few key strokes of the pen. Angie Stevens's enthusiasm for drawing developed in childhood and she went on to study illustration at the Unviersity of Westminster. After shis, she says, came 'the tsunami of children a...

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The essays explore the visual styles and storytelling techniques of Canadian cartoonists, a...

Journey to the West is one of the greatest treats in Chinese literature. A fantastic tale of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples, it has enertained readers for more than four centuries with the trials and tribulations strewn on the pilgrims' path. Readers, young and old, have loved the central character the Monkey King for his mischief and magical powers.This compact classic relates how Sun Wu...

A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes and hundreds of ink-wash drawings, Alfonso Zapico invites the reader to share Joyce's journey, from his earliest days in Dublin to his life with his great love, Nora Barnacle...