by Jerome Charyn & François Boucq

A lost soul in the Ukraine, Billy is drafted by the KGB and sent to New York to steal for the Soviet State. Powerful story and art. A wonderful story and art by the team that created The Magician's Wife another best-seller.

Catalan Communications 1991. European graphic novel in English. 125 pages. Softcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11½

by Joe Kubert

This is the story of Joe Kubert’s friend Ervin Rustemagic, as he and his family struggled to preserve their lives and dignity during the 18 month siege of Sarajevo in 1992-93. Ervin had nothing to rely on but the tenuous lifeline of a fax machine to communicate with his friends during the war. From hundreds of faxes detailing everything from the atrocities committed in the name of ethnic cleansing to the ever-present fears and frustrations of the Rustemagic family, Kubert has expertly pieced together a truly heart-wrenching story of a very real tragedy and, ultimately, of unflagging hope.

205 pages. Dark Horse Books.

Hardcover

by James Vance & Dan Burr

Kings in Disguise is a coming-of-age story set against the Great Depression as a 12-year old boy, Freddie Bloch, sets across America to find the alcoholic father who abandoned his family. Along the way Freddie discovers another America, one populated by hobo jungles, violent strikes and Hoovervilles, learns about himself, and finds a surrogate father while hopping freight trains. Powerfully told by James Vance and evocatively illustrated by Dan Burr. Winner of multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. Softcover, published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1990.

by Joe R. Lansdale & Tim Truman

by Turf and Mouclier

The world of Lamantine is a world of huge wooden machines, of great ramps stretched over the sea, of cable cars gliding above the city. It is also a suffering world. Plagued by a virulent disease without a cure, a virus is eating away the bodies of some - and souls of others. Like her father, Lamantine has contracted the sickness. Yet she refuses to condone the killing of sea animals for the scientific research that could save her life. Through the fevered hallucinations haunting her, Lamantine recognizes a bond between herself and the sea, a bond that will determine her destiny.

Heavy Metal/Tundra, 1993. 45 pages.

Hardcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11.

by Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Not unlike contemporary political situations in which terrorism leads to counter-terrorism in a vicious circle this book illuminates the tragedy and monstrosity of violent vengeance on a human scale. The novel starts with the ultimately pointless struggles of left-and right-wing militants in Spain in 1938. Never having forgotten their defeat a terrorist faction returns to the village of Nieves and massacres its inhabitants as the story opens 40 years later. Enraged by the minor coverage given the slaughter journalist Jefferson Pritchard regroups his brigade and resolves to wipe out their old foes from the Black Order. As one crusty old group pursues the other across Europe the distinctions between principles- between left and right- all but vanish into a senseless haze without victors or vanquished leaving only victims.

80 pages. Softcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11, Catalan, 1989.

by Russ Manning

Lya Billings is the greatest female athlete in the world. She competes like a woman possessed, which she is, by the shame of whatever her mother is hiding. When Lya goes in search of her mother's secrets, she is lost at sea, somewhere off the coast of Peru. The only man who can find her -- and the only man who can uncover her mother's secrets -- is Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. And even he may have met his match in The Land That Time Forgot.