European comics (bande dessinée) essentials

Best French Graphic Novels on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

  • To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story

    • ASIN: 1982100826
    • ISBN: 1982100826
    • Brand: Gallery 13
    • Manufacturer: Gallery 13

    A 2019 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM From the “master of black and white” artwork (Paste Magazine) and the bestselling illustrator-storyteller of Park Bench and Alone comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Jack London’s most famous short story. Discover the beloved author of White Fang and The Cal... [Read More]

  • The Count of Monte Cristo: Campfire Classics Line (Campfire Graphic Novels)

    • ASIN: 9380028679
    • ISBN: 9380028679
    • Brand: Dumas Alexandre
    • Manufacturer: Campfire

    When Edmond Dantès is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, he vows to escape and destroy those who betrayed him.With his former life a distant memory, revenge drives him forward. Using the fortune left to him by Abbé Faria, he transforms himself into the powerful and enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo, and systematically hunts down the men who p... [Read More]

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection , Volume 1 (Valerian & Laureline)

    • ASIN: 184918352X
    • ISBN: 184918352X
    • Brand: CINEBOOK
    • Manufacturer: Cinebook, Ltd

  • I Kill Giants Movie Tie-In Edition

    • ASIN: 1607069857
    • ISBN: 1607069857
    • Brand: Image Comics
    • Manufacturer: Image Comics

    I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer — she starts to believe it herself. The reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior are revealed through the course of the book, as she learns to reconcile her fant... [Read More]

  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library)

    • ASIN: 037571457X
    • ISBN: 037571457X
    • Brand: Pantheon
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her l... [Read More]

  • In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel

    • ASIN: 1631490354
    • ISBN: 1631490354
    • Brand: Liveright
    • Manufacturer: Liveright

    New York Times BestsellerWhether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece."Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth," wrote Graham Greene. "For those who began to write at the... [Read More]

  • The Complete Persepolis

    • ASIN: 0375714839
    • ISBN: 9780375714832
    • Brand: Pantheon
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; ... [Read More]

  • Amulet #1-7 Box Set

    • ASIN: 1338045644
    • ISBN: 1338045644
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.

    A collection of the first seven books in Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times bestselling series!After tragedy strikes their family, Emily and Navin move with their mother into the old, mysterious home of their great-grandfather. On their first night in the strange house, Emily and Navin's mom is kidnapped by a tentacled creature. Determined to rescue... [Read More]

  • Valerian: The Complete Collection (Valerian & Laureline), Volume 3

    • ASIN: 1849183570
    • ISBN: 1849183570
    • Brand: Cinebook Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Cinebook, Ltd

  • The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

    • ASIN: 1596433752
    • ISBN: 1596433752
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: First Second

  • Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier

    • ASIN: 1883789664
    • ISBN: 1883789664
    • Brand: Brand: Black Dome Press
    • Manufacturer: Black Dome Press

    This sweeping historical narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful birth of a new nation from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the lopsided Battle of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of the Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-... [Read More]

  • The North Water: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1627795944
    • ISBN: 9781627795944
    • Brand: Henry Holt Co
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

    One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearNational BestsellerLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the RSL Encore AwardFinalist for the Los Angeles Book PrizeA New York Times and Wall Street Journal BestsellerNamed a Best Book of the Year by Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, New Statesman, Publish... [Read More]

  • Trish Trash: Rollergirl from Mars Vol. 1 (Trish Trash graphic novels)

    • ASIN: 1629916145
    • ISBN: 1629916145
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: NBM/Papercutz

    Two centuries from now, Trish "Trash" Nupindju lives on the newly inhabited Mars, whose settlers live under harsh and ruthless conditions. Trish dreams of only one thing: becoming a hoverderby star. It seems like making the professional derby team is the only way to escape a future of poverty on her parents' farm. But, what happens when a half-dead... [Read More]

  • Aya

    • ASIN: 1894937902
    • ISBN: 1894937902
    • Brand: Drawn and Quarterly
    • Manufacturer: Drawn and Quarterly

    "That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the . . . war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on." --Marguerite AbouetIvory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first television ad campaign promoting the fortifying effects of... [Read More]

  • The Paris Architect: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00DJBXASQ
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

    The New York Times bestseller"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." --Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming Ken Follett." (Booklist)In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard acce... [Read More]

  • Lazarus Volume 5

    • ASIN: 1534300244
    • ISBN: 1534300244
    • Brand: IMAGE
    • Manufacturer: Image Comics

    The fifth collection of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling series by Eisner winners Michael Lark and Greg Rucka plunges the Sixteen Families into chaos as the world goes to war. But Forever Carlyle, the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family, has been sidelined, and her loyalties are now in question as she struggles to come to terms with wh... [Read More]

  • Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

    • ASIN: 1596436239
    • ISBN: 1596436239
    • Brand: Brand: First Second
    • Manufacturer: First Second

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each ch... [Read More]

  • The Sorbonne Affair: A Hugo Marston Novel

    • ASIN: B01MXK8DKC
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

    Someone is spying on American author Helen Hancock. While in Paris to conduct research and teach a small class of writers, she discovers a spy camera hidden in her room at the Sorbonne Hotel. She notifies the US Embassy, and former FBI profiler Hugo Marston is dispatched to investigate. Almost immediately, the stakes are raised from surveillance to... [Read More]

  • Le Papyrus de César - N°36 (Astérix) (Les Aventures D'Asterix Le Gaulois)

    • ASIN: 2864972719
    • ISBN: 9782864972716
    • Manufacturer: LP

    Deux ans après le succès d'Astérix chez les Pictes, les personnages créés par René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo sont de retour dans un nouvel album écrit par Jean-Yves Ferri et dessiné par Didier Conrad. Tous les ingrédients de la potion magique Astérix sont au rendez-vous : l'Histoire de Rome et des Gaulois est revue et corrigée à coups d... [Read More]

  • The Man From The Great North (One Man, One Adventure)

    • ASIN: 1684050588
    • ISBN: 1684050588
    • Manufacturer: IDW Publishing

    Hugo Pratt, hailed as the “inventor of the literary comic strip,” offers an provocative story whose protagonist is a seemingly wanton murderer, driven by a religious obsession with the absolute. First English-language edition.This is the story Jesuit Joe, a lone traveler of French-Canadian and Mohawk descent. In northern Canada, circa 1920, he ... [Read More]

  • European comics (bande dessinée) essentials

    Top 10 Sci-Fi Comics of All Time

    French Graphic Novels and Art Books