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Secret identity : a novel / by Segura, Alex,1980-author,illustrator.;
"From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call "The Lethal Lynx," Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he's found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that's complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living. Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cartoonists; Comic books, strips, etc.; Comic books, strips, etc.; Murder; Superheroes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How to fail at almost everything and still win big : kind of the story of my life / by Adams, Scott,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever -- a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor along the way. In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams admits that he failed at just about everything he's tried, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants. But along the way, Adams discovered some truths you're unlikely to find anywhere else."--
Subjects: Adams, Scott, 1957-; Cartoonists; Motivation (Psychology); Vocational guidance;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lost & found : based on a true story / by Yu, Mei(Graphic novelist);
"A little girl moves with her family from China to Canada and must find a way to learn English in order to make friends."--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Autobiographical comics.; Cartoonists; Immigrants; Chinese; School children; Cartoons and comics.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Mad about you / by Wilde, Lori.;
License to thrill -- You only love twice.License to thrill. Las Vegas private detective Charlee Champagne, a woman with reason to distrust men, teams up with handsome investment banker Mason Gentry on a wild chase across the desert after Mason comes to her office claiming his grandfather has run off with her grandmother as well as half a million in Gentry company funds.You only love twice. Comic book creator Marlie Montague's life is fairly mundane, unlike that of her fictional alter ego Angelina Avenger, until an assassin masquerading as a UPS deliveryman shows up at her door, and she is forced to enlist the aid of her gorgeous next-door neighbor, Joel Hunter, an undercover Navy agent who has been investigating her secretly for suspected anti-government activities.
Subjects: Love stories.; Man-woman relationships; Women private investigators; Investment bankers; Women cartoonists; Undercover operations; Romantic suspense fiction.;
© 2014., Forever,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Big Nate : goes for broke / by Peirce, Lincoln.;
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
Subjects: Cartoonists; Conduct of life; Humorous stories; Middle school students; Middle schools;
© c2012., Harper,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Hey, kiddo [graphic novel] : how I lost my mother, found my father, and dealt with family addiction / by Krosoczka, Jarrett,author,illustrator.;
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Graphic novels.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Krosoczka, Jarrett; Cartoonists; Families; Dysfunctional families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Monstrous [graphic novel] : a transracial adoption story / by Myer, Sarah,author,illustrator.;
A story of Sarah, a Korean-American girl who is adopted into a white family and deals with bullies and racism throughout her school years. She escapes into the world of art. Though drawing and cosplay offer her an escape, she still struggles to connect with others.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Myer, Sarah; Adopted children; Bullying; Cartoonists; Interracial adoption; Korean Americans; Women cartoonists;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Halfway there [graphic novel] : a graphic memoir of self-discovery / by Mari, Christine,author.;
"A Japanese American college student reconnects with her roots in Tokyo, Japan, while wrestling with feelings of loneliness, depression, and cultural identity confusion"--
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Mari, Christine; Cartoonists; College students; Identity (Psychology); Japanese Americans; Women cartoonists; Women college students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir / by Spiegelman, Nadja.;
"A memoir of mothers and daughters--and mothers as daughters--traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Spiegelman, Nadja.; Women cartoonists; Women authors, American; Women artists, American; Women artists; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How about never--is never good for you? : my life in cartoons / by Mankoff, Robert.;
"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker. People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Mankoff, Robert.; New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925); Cartoonists; Periodical editors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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