Lucy Knisley, Author . Touchstone $15 (193p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7534-4
For her 22nd birthday—and her mother's 50th—Lucy Knisley and her mother went to Paris. For more than a month, they toured the City of Lights from their fifth arrondissement flat, exploring museums and cafes, taking photographs,...
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Lucy Knisley. First Second, $17.99 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-59643-623-7
“When we eat, we take in more than just sustenance,” writes Knisley (French Milk) in this nostalgic and funny food-centric memoir, and it’s a fitting motto for the book and for anyone who takes even the slightest pleasure in cooking and, more...
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Lucy Knisley. Fantagraphics, $19.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-768-0
Knisley (French Milk, Relish) continues to own the travelogue/graphic novel genre by bringing her characteristic humor and heart to this memoir of a summer in Europe. Created during a journey from a comics convention in Norway to the vineyards of...
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Lucy Knisley. Fantagraphics, $19.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-810-6
After her acclaimed travelogues French Milk and An Age of License, Knisley returns with a new travel memoir, this one focusing on duty rather than adventure. Lucy accompanies her aging grandparents on a Caribbean cruise. She ends up dealing with...
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Lucy Knisley. Roaring Brook/First Second, $19.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-62672-249-1
“There’s a difference,” Knisley’s bespectacled self says at the start of this breezy yet substantial graphic memoir, “between being a nerd, a fan, an enthusiast... and being an expert.” By the end of her chirpy story about crafting the perfect...
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Lucy Knisley. Chronicle, $17.99 (52p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6156-3
Cartoonist Knisley makes her solo picture book debut with a hearty welcome to the new babies of the world: “Hello, you! You are new. When you’re new... what can you do?” Working in a bold graphic design style, she depicts babies of different ages...
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Lucy Knisley. First Second, $14.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-250-21149-1
Knisley (Kid Gloves) captures the frantic and fantastic follies of early parenthood in this endearing collection of pen-and-ink comics. “These little sketchbook cartoons,” she writes in her introduction, “are my effort to feel less alone and crazy...
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Lucy Knisley. Random House Graphic, $20.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-984896-84-1
Knisley’s autobiographical comics chops are on full display in her first graphic novel for kids, a fictionalized telling of her childhood experiences. When Jen moves to the country with her mother after her parents’ divorce, she is less than...
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Lucy Knisley. First Second, $19.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-62672-808-0
This funny and sometimes harrowing memoir, in which Knisley (Relish) shares her birth experience, is hampered by an emotionally detached narrative style. The Chicago cartoonist intersperses each chronological step of her pregnancy with cleverly...
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Lucy Knisley. Knopf, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9719-0
“My helmet is on, and/ the morning is bright”—and it seems like everybody the child narrator knows is riding some kind of cycle in this on-the-move chronicle of a largely self-propelled public. Setting out with Mom pedaling, a child in a bike seat...
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