Nonfiction - History
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The Once and Future Riot
$27.99 Add to cartFrom “our greatest living comics journalist” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologie
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250880262
- Language: English
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Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.
$34.99 Read moreBest Art Books of 2024, Hyperallergic
“She put in her work, but there’s so much left to do.” Begun in the Antebellum era, the song of suffrage was a rallying cry across the nation that would persist
- Author: Cass, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969332
- Language: English
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Trouble! at Coal Creek
$22.95 Add to cartThis gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War–one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in the history of the United States.
Told through t- Author: Sauerbrei, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903766
- Language: English
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Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont
$15.95 Add to cartAbout the Book:
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the work of six New England cartoonists drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remark
- Author: Francis Bordeleau, Marek Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0916718018
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Lacand?n: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism
$37.43 Add to cartIn the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacand?n people and broadcast their way of life to a curio… [more below]
- Author: Jobs, Richard Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0228024765
- Language: English
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Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Defiant
- Author: Edwards, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1939834376
- Language: English
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Shadows on the Ice: The 1972 Andes Disaster
$22.99 Add to cartOn a fateful Friday the 13th in October 1972, a plane traveling from Uruguay to Chile, carrying a young rugby team, crashed in an inaccessible area in the heart of the Andes Mountains. For many weeks,… [more below]
- Author: Bertocchini, Fr?d?ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1990521290
- Language: English
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Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor
$22.99 Add to cartAn elegant, intimate graphic novel retelling of Mary “the Bloody” Tudor’s infamous life and evolution from loyal subject to royal tyrant.
The story of Mary Tudor — oldest child and daughter of Henry- Author: Gehrmann, Kristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600266
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartIn 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
