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701) Prince: in comics
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like "1999" or "Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world. Here is his extraordinary destiny...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Curie's unique drive--against all odds--to understand Nature's ways and laws led to ground-breaking discoveries, which revolutionized medical theory and practice. She was the first female Nobel Prize winner and, to date, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two categories; first physics and later in chemistry." --
Author
Publisher
Graphic Planet, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the death of Denmark's King Hamlet, his ghost appears and tells his son, also called Hamlet, to avenge his wrongful death, which leads to more tragedy. Includes discussion prompts, fun facts, a short biography of Shakespeare, and famous phrases from the play. A glossary is also included.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marie Curie stunned the scientific world when her research uncovered two elements, polonium and radium. This accessible graphic biography gives readers a look at her collaborations with Pierre Curie, her medical work during World War I, and more."
706) El consentimiento (¡para niños!): cómo poner límites, pedir respeto y estar a cargo de ti mismo
Author
Publisher
Océano Historias gráficas
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Tu cuerpo es tuyo y tú ones las reglas. Puedes tener reglas distintas para cada persona y cambiarlas cuando tú quieras. Por ejemplo, tal vez quieras chocar las palmas con tus amigos y besar a tu gatito, ¡pero no al revés! Este libro te dará seguridad, responsabilidad y control total sobre tu cuerpo, tus emociones y tu forma de ser. Aquí aprenderás a poner límites, a pedir respeto, a reflexionar sobre tu propio comportamiento y a ser un buen...
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Minamata disease, a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into the waters of the coastal community of Minamata in southern Japan. First identified in 1956, it became a hot topic in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, growing into an iconic struggle between people versus corporations and government agencies. This struggle is relevant today, not simply because...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer--the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Following the popularity and critical acclaim of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story and Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story is a fast-paced, charming, informative look at the brilliant Lane. Among other achievements, she was a founder of the American...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the world moved on, find out what happened to those left behind in this memoir of tragedy and death, people and land, and what comes after disaster. April 26, 1986. The reactor core of the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl began to melt, setting into motion the greatest nuclear disaster of the twentieth century. While Europe slept, a cloud laden with radiation traveled thousands of miles in every direction, contaminating five million people who...
Author
Publisher
Furia Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Active Voice" started as a column written by P. Kristen Enos in the LGBT Orange County & Long Beach Blade Newsmagazine in 1994. It was an opportunity for her to share random serious and humorous stories as an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist Activist in ultra-conservative Orange County, California (nestled between Los Angeles and San Diego.) The stories in this collection are primarily from Enos's days in the UC Irvine Gay & Lesbian Student Union...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela gráfica que nos descubre, a través del testimonio personal, realidades y experiencias alejadas de la homogeneizada "cultura global", pero cuyo conocimiento es fundamental para comprender el mundo en toda su vibrante complejidad. Este libro cuenta la verdadera historia de un colegial rubio en la Siria de Hafez el Asad. Si en el primer volumen de El árabe del futuro Riad Sattouf contaba sus primeros años de vida entre la Libia de Gadafi...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. For the next three years, several other missions to the moon helped scientists learn more about space travel. However, nobody has been to the moon since 1972. Today, NASA is planning to go back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. In this nonfiction graphic novel, young readers can tag along with Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists to discover...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Riad Sattouf continúa desgranando su aguda y desternillante autobiografía en este nuevo volumen gráfico de El árabe del futuro, una de las series más celebradas del último lustro a nivel internacional, traducida a veintidós idiomas. A través de los ojos del niño que fue, Sattouf nos relata sus vivencias en Libia, Siria, el Líbano y Francia, al tiempo que ofrece un retablo impagable del Oriente Próximo de la época y su relación con Occidente....
Author
Publisher
Pow Pow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this unabashed and uncensored personal memoir, author Éloïse Marseille examines her sexual education (and miseducation), from a forbidden first kiss with a female best friend in Catholic school to her exposure to the extremes of online porn, fumbling hookups, and navigating the complexities of lust and love in the modern era... But most importantly of all, the author's nuanced relationship with her own body, sexuality, and self."-- Pow Pow.
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
El olvido que seremos, de Héctor Abad Faciolince, extraordinario canto al amor filial y clásico contemporáneo de la literatura en español, emprende un nuevo vuelo con esta adaptación al formato de novela gráfica a cargo del dibujante catalán Tyto Alba, cuyos excepcionales dibujos y acuarelas dan vida a unos personajes y una historia inolvidables, dotándolos de nuevos matices y significados, y añadiendo al libro una dimensión plástica que,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Mammoth Cave, a National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, is the world's largest cavern with more than 400 miles of cavern space. The first to explore the cave was an enslaved Black man, Stephen Bishop. With bravery and a curious mind, Bishop became a popular tour guide and mapped out the extensive caverns, all while remaining enslaved. Learn about this respected explorer's work in this inspiring graphic novel"--
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En 1895, los periódicos de Nueva York llamaron la atención sobre una mujer que recorra̕ el pas̕ pedaleando. Annie "Londonderry" se había ido de casa para ganar una apuesta: recorrer el mundo en bicicleta a cambio de cinco mil dólares. Aquello no era solo una proeza física y geográfica: estaba desafiando las convenciones de la época. Y a pesar de que los medios estuvieron más interesados en señalar que usaba pantalones en lugar de falda,...
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