James Sturm, Author . Drawn & Quarterly $24.95 (191p) ISBN 978-1-897299-05-0
Three of Sturm's previously released graphic novels are gathered to create a Howard Zinn–like look at lesser-known episodes of America's past. "The Revival" is a short, sharp piece dramatizing the massive 1801 religious revival
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James Sturm, Author . Drawn & Quarterly $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-897299-97-5
Cartoonist and educator Sturm turns in a tightly woven graphic novella about a shtetl craftsman whose life and livelihood shatter against the rising industrial behemoth of the early 20th century. Mendleman is a nervous rug weaver with a child on the
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James Sturm. Toon (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 (60p) ISBN 978-1-935179-94-8
Inspired by Japanese kamishibai (“paper theater”) storytelling and the prints of William S. Rice, Sturm (the Adventures in Cartooning series) follows two cruel children who get a lesson in kindness. As the wordless story opens, a boy and girl tromp...
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James Sturm. Toon (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-943145-09-6
Armadillo has world domination on the mind, but buddy Ape is fed up with assignments that involve trudging through sewers and fending off robot armies. “Why do I have to distract the spitting serpent that guards the castle... while you sneak in with
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James Sturm, Author, Andrew Arnold, Author, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Author . Roaring Brook/First Second $12.95 (109p) ISBN 978-1-59643-369-4
Created by the Center for Cartoon Studies' director and two of his former students, this how-to-make-comics book for young readers takes a couple of unusual tacks. For one thing, it skips the usual rudiments of how to draw in favor of...
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James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. Roaring Brook/First Second, $9.99 paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-59643-730-2
Kids are asking for high-tech gifts instead of old-fashioned ones, and Santa is not all that happy about it (“Instead of toys, we elves write code,” a helper tells him. “Then we connect to the server... and upload!”). Santa hits on the idea of a...
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James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. First Second, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-651-0
The creators of the Adventures in Cartooning books look to a younger audience with this first title in a picture-book series. Their romp stars the exuberantly self-centered knight and her long-suffering horse, Edward, and it’s bursting with...
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James Sturm, Author, Jason Lutes, Author, Nick Bertozzi, Author . Hyperion/The Center for Cartoon Studies $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3902-5
A single stunt from the sprawling career of the "handcuff king," Harry Houdini ("The man for whom the phrase 'kids, don't try this at home' might well have been invented," reads Glen David Gold's introduction), is...
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James Sturm, Author, Rich Tommaso, Illustrator, Gerald Early, Introduction by . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $16.99 (89p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3901-8
Delivering far more than a conventional biography or baseball book, this graphic novel reveals the sport as an agent of hope in the Jim Crow South. Sturm (cofounder and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies, which partnered with Hyperion for...
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James Sturm, Author, Rich Tommaso, Illustrator, Gerald Early, Introduction by . HarperOne $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-078340-2
In this brilliant account, Wheaton College literature professor Jacobs (The Narnian
) traces the idea of original sin from the Bible to the present day. The doctrine has inspired fierce debate for the last two millennia. In every generation, it...
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James Sturm. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-77046-331-8
The romantic underpinnings of this bleakly drawn and emotionally raw graphic novel from Sturm (The Golem’s Mighty Swing) are buried under Yankee stoicism and the sniping crossfire and precisely drawn quotidian scenes of loss in a failing marriage....
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