| 1. Understanding Comics | 
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By: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1993-08
I've first see this book in my friend's home. I was amazed by colors, quality of paper and last but not least the content. I've never thought about the comics books in the way this one explains. and the form the explanation takes is adding a flavor to the reading experience. i'm enjoyed reading it (i did it already twice). this is a book that you can take from the shelf at any time, open at any page... more
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| 2. Contract With God |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1985-09
R. Crumb calls it comix. Jules Feiffer called it junk art. Will Eisner gives it the ugly-sounding title of sequential art. A popular name for it now is graphic fiction. What DOES one call the genre in which Eisner was such a pioneer?
Eisner tells us that his goal in A Contract with God, a book that has become famous for being the "first" graphic novel, was to create an art work in... more
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| 3. From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts, Vol. 10 |
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By: Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1996-10
The book came in the condition as described by the seller so I was very pleased... more
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| 4. The Crow |
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By: James O'Barr
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1997-02
This book is filled with nothing but violence and racism. Reading through the book, one cannot help but feel sympathy for the "hoodlums" and resentment for the "hero." A protaganist that cannot bleed, going on a killing spree that ends with him hammering in the head of a poor inner-city youth? Why does the author hate black people so much? Furthermore, anyone caught praising this book should be locked... more
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| 5. Kafka | 
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By: David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1996-07
This is an amazing book about Kafka. I have read some Kafka, but never in a million years would I have bought a biography of Kafka--unless I had been intrigued by the idea of it being in "graphic novel" format. David Mairowitz does a superb job of simply and clearly illustrating Kafka as a human being and dissecting Kafka's writing with great reverence for the work. As for Robert Crumb, it would... more
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| 6. The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book |
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By: Robert Crumb
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
June 28, 1999
This is more or less a career encompassing anthology of Crumbs work. You get a taste of every faze he went through. From the early cutesy fuzzy bunny work, the LSD influenced stuff, his sexual fetishs and hangups, the neurotic self loathing introspection, his "counterculture" parody and satire, etc. There is some of every facet of Crumbs work in this along with several interesting handwritten pages... more
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| 7. Violent Cases |
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By: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Pr (Nrt)
1993-10
Given it's all hits and no misses, considering it's Gaiman/McKean team's first work, it's a masterstroke. I can't believe it's their first collaboration!
Fractured arm, fractured memory. Innocent games, violent cases... more
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| 8. To the Heart of the Storm |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1991-05
Eisner presents broad, varied, and highly personal view of the American Jewish experience. It has to be varied since there is no one experience. Each differs from all the others, and each contains many parts at odds with each other.
This time, Eisner starts his story on a troop train, one leg of the trip towards the storm of WWII. One character sits silently, gazing out the window. Although... more
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| 9. Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 23: 1957 |
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By: Al Capp
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
March 01, 2009
Al Capp was on the verge of reaching his peak- a peak he would maintain for many, many years- in these great 1939 newspaper strips. The drawing style is getting bolder and funnier and Capp's visual and narrative satire is beginning to hit a stride that put him at the top of his medium and at the forefront of American popular culture. "Li'l Abner" is a great American work of art, and boy, is it funny... more
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| 10. The Dreamer |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1986
Will Eisner, creator of the Graphic Novel, shows why he remains unchallenged in his field... more
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