Books by Bob Fingerman and Complete Book Reviews
Bob Fingerman, Author . Fantagraphics $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56097-502-1
In this revision and expansion of Fingerman's acclaimed Minimum Wage series, the artist offers 40 pages of retouched and redrawn panels, enhanced by gray tones that add a rich tone and spatial volume to each drawing. Fingerman chronicles the...
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Bob Fingerman, Tor, $24.99 (365p) ISBN 9780765328175
When a zombie pandemic sweeps the land, a group of survivors hide out in an Upper East Side apartment building. As food supplies dwindle tensions rise, and their only salvation appears in the form of Mona, a mysterious girl who repels the zombies....
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Bob Fingerman, Author Fantagraphics Books $9.95 (72p) ISBN 978-1-56097-187-0
Fingerman has the knack for identifying the humor in the weirdest and the most unexceptional people or situations. This first installment of Fingerman's crisply rendered mini-epic presents a couple of days in the life of Rob, paradoxically stuffy N.Y
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Bob Fingerman, Author, Scott Dunbier, Editor, Bob Fingerman, Illustrator . IDW $19.99 (175p) ISBN 978-1-60010-600-2
This “speculative memoir” chronicles the misadventures of writer/artist Fingerman and his wife, Michele, in a postapocalyptic Manhattan. Despite being bombed out and irradiated, New York City is still rife with assorted factions...
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Bob Fingerman, Author, Bob Fingerman, Illustrator . Dark Horse $9.99 (87p) ISBN 978-1-59307-390-9
Fingerman's previous work, Beg the Question
, was a realistic black-and-white graphic novel about two young New Yorkers' troubled engagement. This volume is a full-color short story collection that trades realism for Grand Guignol. Fingerman
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Bob Fingerman, Author, Bob Fingerman, Illustrator . Dark Horse $14.95 (94p) ISBN 978-1-59307-450-0
The creator behind Beg the Question
and Finger Filth
, Fingerman gives the world another helping of outright fun with this Our Gang Meets Dawn of the Dead gene-splicing. When an elementary school science experiment goes awry and causes several of...
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Bob Fingerman. Image, $34.99 (360p) ISBN 978-1-60706-6-743
The romance of Rob and Sylvia unfolds in Fingerman’s semiautobiographical work, capturing a very specific segment of New York City’s population—a cadre of crass and cranky geeks who struggle with arrested development and obsess about comics and...
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Bob Fingerman. Image, $14.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-63215-015-8
Rob Hoffman, protagonist of the original Minimum Wage graphic novel, returns in a new collection that finds him awaiting the finalization of his divorce. He's living at home with his mother, eking out a living drawing pornographic cartoons, and...
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Bob Fingerman. Image, $15, (120p) ISBN 978-1-63215-146-9
Luther Albert Joyce has had a bum deal in life: divorced, cheated, bankrupt, and black in racist America. Things get worse when an accident at the nuclear plant where he works as a janitor leaves him Toxic Avenger–level deformed and his presumed-dead
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Bob Fingerman. Image, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-63215-737-9
Recently divorced cartoonist Rob Hoffman sets forth in the terrifying world of single life in New York City in the second volume of Fingerman’s urban soap opera comedy. Starting over with the desire to do more personal comics, Rob gains a casual...
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