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Dolores

A model maker is commisioned by Hollywood starlet to reproduce her villa in model form. Really cool art, great colors, and a compellingly complex main character - unfortunately, the plot plays like a lesser Twilight Zone episode. Anne Baltus.

Rabbi's Cat (Joann Sfar) (Pantheon Books 2005)

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi’s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can’t be Jewish–but the cat, as always, knows better. Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabya’s cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important–and trivial–details of life.

Tangents (1996)

The eight stories that make this book up are as many variations regarding tangential, imperfect, and limited sentimental relationships that come to their end. Artists, civil servants, professionals, politicians... people belonging to more or less well-off social strata for whom these relationships end up meaning a conflict of own interests; and who, in the end, don´t know how to keep them -or don´t want to. Miguelanxo Prado.

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Second Thoughts

Jess is a writer living in London. Andrew is a photographer on his way to New York. They do not fall in love - not exactly - but their brief encounter in Stansted Airport will impact both of their lives more than they can imagine. In Second Thoughts, the clean, emotional ink-work of Swedish newcomer Niklas Asker guides two characters through modern city life and love, as they struggle separately, yet somehow together. Lost in Translation meets Stranger Than Fiction! Past and present, reality and fiction overlap in this sweet, haunting, and ultimately inspiring graphic novel of modern city life and love.

Streak of Chalk (1992)

"Streak of Chalk" is the most famous work by Miguelanxo Prado. It was nominated for the two most important awards in USA: the Eisners (best illustrator) and the Harveys (best foreign work). 

We Can Still be Friends (Blank Slate 2008)

Berlin-based cartoonist Markus Witzel, who goes by the pen name of Mawil, has established a reputation in Europe for his cataloging of the awkwardness of relationships, especially with the opposite sex, but always with some terrific humour throughout, earning him an Icom Prize in 1998 and an international reputation among the comics community. We are delighted to be able to offer this English translation of a brilliant European comics creator.