Brandon Graham, Author . Tokyopop $9.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59816982-9
This bit of tongue-and-cheek third-generation fight manga is wondrously fun, but difficult to classify. The hero, Joe, employs a magic cat, Earthling J. J. Cattingworth the Third, to do his fighting, lock picking and spy-gizmo work. (PETA members,...
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Brandon S. Graham. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5072-0162-6
Flip Mellis is a hapless middle-age man, fat and lazy, fired from his job, kicked out by his fed-up wife, and wallowing in self-pity and failure. He can’t even commit suicide. Graham’s second novel (after Missing People) is a quirky and grim...
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Brandon S. Graham. Tyrus, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5072-0052-0
Set in Chicago, this acute psychological study from Graham (Good for Nothing) examines the devastating impact that the inexplicable disappearance of 17-year-old Etta Messenger has on her parents, Meg and Charlie; her brother, Townes; and her...
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Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, and Farel Dalrymple. Image (Diamond, dist.), $9.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60706-611-8
John Prophet, a super soldier who awakes in the future’s future after being kept in cryo-sleep beneath the Earth’s surface, is ready for his mission. Prophet makes his way through an Earth that has been overrun by squabbling alien tribes living...
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Brandon Graham. Image, $17.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-5343-1355-2
Eisner Award winner Graham (King City) constructs a dazzling science fiction universe with a soft, funky bande dessinée aesthetic. In a future so distant that its technology is akin to magic, the mercenary Brik Brok breaks into an elite citadel to...
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Brandon Graham, Author, Brandon Graham, Illustrator . Alternative Comics $12.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-891867-81-1
Three parts skater-cartooning to one part graffiti art, Graham's eccentric visual style drives this collection of odd, disconnected short comics stories with one foot in everyday city life and the other in the alien goo of a space warp. When...
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Brandon Graham. Image, $19.99 trade paper (424p) ISBN 978-1-60706-510-4
Although the first half of this hilarious, touching romp was published a few years ago, the rest of the story has lingered in a rights limbo until now. Set in a lushly detailed city of the far future, catmaster Joe, assisted by his marvelously...
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Brandon Graham. Living the Line, $19.95 trade paper (116p) ISBN 978-1-961581-02-9
An artist tries to stay above the churn of depression in this low-key lovely graphic memoir. In 2018, Eisner-nominated Graham (King City) started keeping a graphic diary “to process... the rough patches in life.” Many of the entries are nicely...
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