Fiction

The dark and haunting portrayal of a young musician's pursuit of creative genius-- the monstrous nature of which threatens to consume him as it did his predecessor half a century ago. From creators Ram V (Grafity's Wall, These Savage Shores) and Anand RK...

From GARTH ENNIS, the creator of the hit AMC television shows THE BOYS and PREACHER, this "first time in softcover" edition collects the critically-acclaimed six issue limited series, celebrates the 80th Anniversary of the founding of the Tuskegee Airmen...

WINNER - 2019 North Street Book Prize (Graphic Narrative)WINNER - 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards (Comics & Graphic Novels)Blackwax Boulevard is the weirdest, grimiest, most obscure record store in all comics. Thus, by hipster-definition, also the...

In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan "types" are the...

An intoxicating illustrated portrait of boxer Emile Griffith, an Afro-Caribbean-American bisexual athlete and one of the world's greatest fighters The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban...

Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real life experience shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the...

These women are truly baaaad. They're rough. They're ready. They're space pirates. They're a James Brown cover band. They are the BAAAAAD MUTHAZ. Follow Afro Desia, Cali Vera, Alley Bastard, Candy Ass, Katana Jade, and Snake on their madcap cosmic...

Always a step ahead, Baraka in 1964 recorded a reading of his provocative poem, 'Black Dada Nihilimus, ' to the avant-garde jazz of the New York Art Quartet. Tales, a collection of impressionistic short stories, reads like an angry James Joyce. I spent...

Candy is a 31 year old money getter who owns "Candy's Shop," the hottest beauty salon in Harlem. She can have any man she wants, but men are not her thing. She s got a lickin' license as her tongue craves the flesh of pretty young females like her lover,...

The year is 1929. The place is Los Angeles, a segregated city as race-restrictive as the Deep South. There are three things that are very clear to Viola. First, her sister Iola is in grave spiritual trouble and needs assistance. Second, she, herself,...

With the unique blend of truth and humor that made her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . ., a huge bestseller, Pearl Cleage returns with an extraordinary novel that is rich in character, steeped in sisterhood, and bursting with...