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The spooky yokai boy Kitaro is back for his sixth book, and this time he has a pile of monsters to beat

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poetLeonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man's life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career.A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family's Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. H...

An affecting glimpse into the ways millennials cope with mental health strugglesClara's at a breaking point. She's got writer's block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around her, yet, while her friends provide support and comfort, she is often left feeling empty, unable to express an underlying depression...

Two of Canada's most famous visual artists take on the book medium in their own hilarious wayLibrary is a collection of paintings by two of Canada's most influential contemporary artists, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber. From the simple premise of the book title comes a series of images that are laugh-out-loud funny. A collection of book covers adorned with titles painted in simple handwritten fonts are displayed on brightly colored hardboar...

An uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff VanderMeerTo the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor. In Secret Life,...

Unvarnished. Punk."-The New York TimesKing-Cat Classix collects material from the first fifty issues of John Porcellino's King-Cat Comics as they appeared in self-published, handmade zines throughout the 1990s. These strips span Porcellino's dynamic evolution from saturated, punk drawings to his characteristic refined minimalism, revealing his work as nothing short of a catalyst that has inspired artists like Chris Ware in the emerging literar...

Never before have so few lines conveyed such a wealth of meaning as in John Porcellino's quietly riveting book about memory, relationships, and selfhood. During a period of isolation following a divorce, Porcellino penned Map of My Heart, endowing it with the sensitivity and emotional depth so characteristic to his minimalist style. His tender drawings and spacious panels shape an autobiographical testimony where no moment is too small or insi...

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiarBrimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino's coming-of-age memoir about the momentous, but seemingly never-ending year between the end of high school and the start of university. His year spans awkward house parties, first kisses, guitar practice, and the cultivation of new friendships. Yet, even though he has a new girlfriend,...

In the second volume of Janssons humorous yet melancholic "Moomin" comic strip, readers get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention.

The first English translation of Mizuki's best-loved work "NonNonBa" is the definitive work by acclaimed "Gekiga-ka "Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in "y"o"kai "(spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with "yokai "influenced the course of his life and oeuvre, he is now known as the forefather of "yokai "manga. His spring 2011 book, "Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, " was featured on PRI's "The World, " where M...

After Mymble's family comes to visit the Moomins, her littlest and most badly behaved sister, Little My, is left behind. She promises to behave if she is given Moomin's bedroom, Moomin, tired of being forced out of his room, decides to build a house where all the rooms will belong to him. With Little My helping out, things are sure to go awry, but in the end, Moomin's house-building misadventures teach him the value of a home.

Another classic Moomin story, reworked into a picture book for younger children.

Collects 7 of Shigeru Mizuki's early and beloved Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, format.

(A) semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War Two. The soldiers are instructed that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive." --From publisher's web site.

This postcard set celebrates thirty of Tomine's most well-known illustrations, and is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past eight years.

Concludes Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, picking up in the wake of Japan's defeat in World War II.

The true story of how Hollywood musicals got one person through school, depression, and the challenges of parenthood

With familiar jabs at Moomin leg length and somewhat less familiar ones aimed at capitalism and colonial politics (!), Jansson's comics are timeless treasures for the whole family. Lars Jansson was a published author at 16 before he taught himself to be a cartoonist in order to replace his sister, Tove, on the Moomin strip.

The story begins with a mother's confession...sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean WarKeum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story-the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's stor...

Join acclaimed author Elise Gravel on a dazzling and revelatory tour of the insect world!In The Bug Club, Elise Gravel shares all of her favourite and most interesting facts about these marvelous creatures, some of which are so unique and strange, you could almost imagine them living in outer space!Most people know that spiders have eight eyes, but what about the caterpillar? These little critters have them beat with a whopping twelve! Did you...