Noah Van Sciver
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"In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authors as well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography."
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"Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 Street, or as he and his brothers rechristened it, One Dirty Tree. This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative experiences. Growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family -- surrounded by comic books, eight siblings, bathtubs full of dirty dishes -- Noah's childhood exerts a powerful force on his present day relationships. Drawn in his inimitable style, written...
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"From 2017 to 2019, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was creating short stories and illustrations for local magazines and alt-weeklies, to serve as what he calls a personal 'survival mechanism.' All of these comics, at times both hysterical and tender, are all collected for the first time in 'Please Don't Step On My JNCO Jeans'. When do you know you're too old to trick-or-treat? What's the best way to effectively dispose of those teenage, ode-filled journals?...
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"A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison, receiving over one million votes. Debs's story is the...
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Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver puts to use all the creative arrows in his quiver in this captivating collection of fiction, biography, memoir, and more. Van Sciver juxtaposes fictional stories about what life as a "19th Century Cartoonist" might have looked like with a series of autobiographical strips about life as a contemporary cartoonist, along with pieces about his father and childhood that inform the path in life he has chosen. The resultant...
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"Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day SaintsIn Joseph Smith and His Mormons: A Graphic Novel Biography, author and illustrator Noah Van Sciver, who was raised a Mormon, covers one of history's most controversial figures, Joseph Smith-who founded a religion which is practiced by millions all over the world. The book discusses all of the monumental moments...
7) Disquiet
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"Noah Van Sciver is a keen observer of the human condition, exploring the decisions people make that make, break, and define them. Disquiet showcases the best of his short comics work, including: zThe Death Of Elijah Lovejoy,y the story of the midwestern abolitionist in the 1830s;zThe Lizard Who Laughed,y a painfully dysfunctional reunion; and zPunks V. Lizards,y an anarchic and darkly comic piece of absurdity that blends Quadrophenia with Jurassic...
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"This is a graphic biography of the green dreamer of the American Frontier, the legendary John Chapman, from Brown University scholar Paul Buhle (Red Rosa) and award-winning cartoonist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln). John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, made himself the stuff of legend by spreading the seeds of apple trees from Wisconsin to Indiana. Along with that, he offered the seeds of nonviolence and vegetarianism,...
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"Totally broke and out of weed, the world’s most iconic stoners--Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin) and Anthony 'Man' Stoner (Tommy Chong)--are in a bad way. That is… until they get a call that changes their lives. Cheech’s old friend, a casino manager in Reno needs an emergency opening act for his stage show. If they can make it, the job is theirs. But what begins as a classic American road trip to score a**, grass and cash quickly morphs into a...