Four thousand years ago, Jerusalem was a small, isolated village perched on a ridge line between the Mediterranean and the desert. Today it is a bustling metropolis with almost one million inhabitants, attracting visitors from all over the world. Considered the cradle of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the three major monotheistic religions—and a spiritual capital for more than half of humanity, Jerusalem’s history gives us a unique perspective into the histories of these different religious identities.

Readers will meet Abraham, King Herod, Empress Helena (the mother of Constantine I), Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, Saladin, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, General Edmund Allenby, Palestinian nationalist Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, former Mayor Teddy Kollek, and many other famous people who have helped build the story of Jerusalem. But it takes many hands to make a city, and the history of the city is the history of the residents who lead lives both great and small within its walls. As Lemire and Gaultier guide us through the lives of Jerusalem’s most famous residents, so too do they introduce us to the people, priests, craftsmen, architects, and residents who have built the history of Jerusalem over the last five millennia.

I 4000 anni di storia della città di Gerusalemme si snodano in un’eccezionale narrazione grafica che tocca la nascita dell’Islam, del Cristianesimo e dell’Ebraismo, così come i famosi conquistatori e i potenti imperi, e molto altro ancora. Questa graphic novel avvincente e imparziale di 256 pagine, scritta dal noto storico Vincent Lemire e illustrata dal fumettista Christophe Gaultier, è un’eccellente scelta per la scuola e per chiunque desideri esplorare l’affascinante storia di Gerusalemme. La storia di Gerusalemme è per molti versi la storia dello sviluppo della civiltà occidentale: le religioni sono nate tra le sue strade, famosi conquistatori l’hanno assediata e grandi imperi si sono scontrati per il suo controllo.

Quattromila anni fa, Gerusalemme era un piccolo villaggio isolato arroccato su una cresta tra il Mediterraneo e il deserto. Oggi è una metropoli vivace con quasi un milione di abitanti, che attrae visitatori da tutto il mondo. Considerata la culla dell’Ebraismo, del Cristianesimo e dell’Islam – le tre principali religioni monoteiste – e capitale spirituale di oltre metà dell’umanità, la storia di Gerusalemme ci offre una prospettiva unica sulle vicende di queste diverse identità religiose.

I lettori incontreranno Abramo, Re Erode, l’Imperatrice Elena (madre di Costantino I), la Regina Melisenda di Gerusalemme, Saladino, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, il Generale Edmund Allenby, il nazionalista palestinese Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, l’ex sindaco Teddy Kollek e molti altri personaggi famosi che hanno contribuito a costruire la storia di Gerusalemme. Ma ci vogliono molte mani per creare una città, e la storia della città è la storia dei suoi abitanti che conducono vite grandi e piccole tra le sue mura. Mentre Lemire e Gaultier ci guidano attraverso le vite dei più famosi abitanti di Gerusalemme, ci presentano anche le persone, i sacerdoti, gli artigiani, gli architetti e i residenti che hanno costruito la storia di Gerusalemme negli ultimi cinque millenni.

Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics’ The Alberto Breccia Library. Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto “Che” Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. The comic was presumed to be lost to history, until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987. It has never been translated into English until now.

The book begins in Bolivia in 1967, then flashes back through Che’s life — his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his subsequent military and political maneuvers, ending in a fade-out to his death. Alberto Breccia and his son, Enrique, drew Life of Che. Enrique draws the Bolivia passages in a woodcut style, while Alberto depicts the flashbacks in his trademark, expressionistic black-and-white. It is primarily set in the field and with the people. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (The Eternaut) blends his authorial voice with Che’s first-person. Life of Che is imbued with a sense of immediacy, as both Che and, eventually, Oesterheld would meet their ends by a military government backed by the American CIA. As Pablo Turnes writes in his afterword, it is “the testament of someone consciously marching toward his revolutionary death.”

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It is, he says, ‘a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.’ The six characters are Rusty Brown himself, a shy schoolkid obsessed with superheroes, his father ‘Woody’ Brown, an eccentric teacher at Rusty’s school, Chalky White, another schoolboy, Alison White, Chalky’s sister, Jason Lint, an older boy who bullies Rusty and Chalky and fancies Alison, and the boys’ teacher, Joanne Cole. Ware tells each of their stories in minute detail (or as he puts it, ‘From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed’), producing another masterwork of the comics form that is at once achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad and painfully funny. ‘A treasure trove of invention…

Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley’s enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred Fordham’s singular artistic flair and attention to detail and color captures this thought-provoking novel as never before, and introduces it to a new generation, and countless modern readers, in a fresh and compelling way.
From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD graphic novel.

What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?In this first volume of the full-colour illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind’s creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas. Featuring 256 pages of full-colour illustrations and easy-to-understand text covering the first part of the full-length original edition, this adaptation of the mind-expanding book furthers the ongoing conversation as it introduces Harari’s ideas to a wider new readership.

During the next four years, Katusha experiences the war on the Eastern Front with all its ferocity and hardship: first as a partisan, then as a Red Army tank driver and commander. From Barbarossa to Babi Yar, from Stalingrad to Kursk, from the Dnipro to Berlin, follow the footprints and tanks tracks of Katusha’s journey through a time of death, hopelessness, victory, glory, and even love. Seen through the eyes of a Ukrainian teenage girl, Katusha is both a coming-of-age story and a carefully researched account of one of the most turbulent and important periods of the twentieth century, where women served in the hundreds of thousands, and Russians died by the millions.