Based on a True Story

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10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir

Jeff Lemire

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The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was

Jonathan Lackman

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Sunflowers

Keezy Young

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March: Book One

Issue #1

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It Rhymes With Takei

George Takei

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My Life in 24 Frames per Second

Rintaro

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Super Late Bloomer: My Life in Transition

Julia Kaye

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The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir About Food, Love & Family

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

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My Perfectly Imperfect Body

Debbie Tung

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Major Impossible

Issue #9

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Issues # 1-5

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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

Harold Schechter

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Full of Myself: Encouraging Tales of Resilience

Siobhán Gallagher

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My Friend Dahmer

Derf Backderf

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Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn

Frances Jetter

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Ephemera: A Memoir

Briana Loewinsohn

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The Comics Journal

Gary Groth

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Displacement

Lucy Knisley

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The Bees: The Women Who Rocked Lithuania

Akvile Magicdusté

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They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition

George Takei

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Good Eggs

Phoebe Potts

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Tolkein: Lighting up the Darkness

Willy Duraffourg

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NBM Comics Biographies: John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude

Lomig

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Green River Killer (Second Edition)

Jeff Jensen

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Dark Night: A True Batman Story

Paul Dini

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Wish I Was a Baller

Amar Shah

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Mannie Murphy

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Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

Christian Staebler

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Marie Curie: A Quest For Light

Frances Andreasen Østerfel

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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero

Raeghan Buchanan

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Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw

Ajuan Mance

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A Fire Story

Brian Fies

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September 11, 2001: The Day the World Changed Forever

Baptiste Bouthier

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Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance

Salva Rubio

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Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1

Ed Piskor

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The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

Vivek J. Tiwary

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Don Coppola

Améziane Hammouche

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Just Another Story

Ernesto Saade

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Thoreau

A. Dan

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True Stories of World War II

Terry Collins

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NBM Comics Biographies: Punk Rock in Comics!

Thierry Lamy

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Falafel With Hot Sauce

Michel Kichka

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Alice In Sunderland

Bryan Talbot

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The Diary of the (Nearly) Zero-Waste Family

Bénédicte Moret

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Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 Treasury Edition

Ed Piskor

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Courage on the Battlefield: True Stories of Survival in the Military

Nel Yomtov

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Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival

Trina Rathgeber

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East-West

Pierre Christin