Mary MartinBook
Purveyors of fine literature since 1945

249 Rundle St Adelaide  South Australia 5000
ph: 08 8359 3525
fax: 08 8359 3515
email: sales@marymartin.com.au <>
open 10:00 till late
7 days

Graphic Novels

Mary Martin bookshop has access to the Drawn & Quarterly and Dark Horse catalogues as well as graphica from major literary publishers. Most of these titles are currently in stock and the others can be ordered (delivery times vary from 1 to 6 weeks depending on the publisher).  

If there's a title you're interested in that's not on the list, e-mail us at sales@marymartin.com.au and chances are we can hunt it down for you.

  Please note: Titles, cover design and prices shown here are examples only and may vary without notice.
 

Drawn and Quarterly


Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 1
This series is an annual showcase of up-and-coming cartoonists. It pushes all the boundaries; surreal, edgy stories of wonder that shimmer with visual style and raw emotional power.
paperback     $24.95
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 2
Continuing the annual series which showcases up-and coming cartoonists.
paperback     $24.95
Little Lit series

It Was a Dark and Silly Night
Ed. Art Spiegelman, featuring Tony Millionaire, Neil Gaiman, J. Otto Siebold and others
We planted a seed in some of the most fertile minds of the planet: cartoonists, novelists, and children's book artists. We asked them to start a story with the words: It Was a Dark and Silly Night... We wanted to know...What happened next??? What grew from the seed is this generous, chock-full, over-the-top jungle of silly comic book stories that show how rich the human imagination is. Lemony Snicket and Richard Sala imagined a dark and silly night where a young girl chases after a Yeti. Neil Gaiman and Gahan Wilson imagined a dark and silly night where kids throw the greatest party they ever had...in a graveyard! William Joyce tells us about kids whose Silly Ray saves the world from warrior florists. This collection of wild and silly imaginings will tickle your funny bone for years to come.
hardback     $55

Folklore and Fairytale Funnies
hardback     $55

Strange Stories for Strange Kids
From Art Spiegelman's The Several Lives of Selby Sheldrake to Maurice Sendak's Cereal Baby Keller to Jules Feiffer's Trapped in a Comic Book, these stories are sure to entice any young reader. Also included are comics and features by Ian Falconer and David Sedaris, Paul Auster and Jacques de Loustal, Crockett Johnson, Richard McGuire, and Barbara McClintock, a puzzle by Lewis Trondheim, and make-your-own comic-book endpapers from Kaz.
hardback     $55
Daniel Clowes

Ghost World
Ghost World tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.
paperback     $29.95

David Boring
David Boring, a nineteen year-old security guard has a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things start to go awry.
paperback     $27.95
David Collier

Just the Facts
paperback    $24.95

Hamilton Sketchbook
As eccentric, diverting, curious, wry and compassionate in life as in his work, David Collier has distilled 20 years of crisscrossing Canada into his books. Fascinated by forgotten people and unusual stories, his work reflects a uniquely Canadian mix of wide-eyed whimsy and prairie-frozen wit.
paperback    $32.95

Portraits from Life
paperback    $24.95
Pascal Croci


Auschwitz
Using the fictional story of a couple named Kazik and Cessia who lose a daughter at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration camp and barely survive themselves, Pascal Croci depicts the horror and brutality of the Holocaust in grim, searing, black-and-white illustrations.
Using the fictional story of a couple named Kazik and Cessia who lose a daughter at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration camp and barely survive themselves, Pascal Croci depicts the horror and brutality of the Holocaust in grim, searing, black-and-white illustrations.
hardback    $35.00
Howard Cruse

Stuck Rubber Baby
paperback    $29.95
Debbie Dreschler

Summer of Love
Drechsler pens this story of a young girl coming to terms with the triumphs and cruelties of teenage life after she moves to a new town and awkwardly tries to make friends at high school.
paperback    $35.00
Neil Gaiman


Sandman Series
'The Sandman' is a series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, in which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.

Various titles available
Please contact us for price and availability
Neil Gaiman with Dave McKean

The Wolves in the Walls
Lucy tells her parents that wolves are living in the wall of their house. When the wolves decide to come out, Lucy and her family find themselves homeless. But not for too long because Lucy is determined to get them back home.
hardback    $29.95

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
When a boy swaps his Dad for two goldfish he does not really think through the consequences. After all, he is not the only person who can swap stuff. When the boy is told by his mother that he has to get his father back it is not so easily done. It seems that the father has a pretty high value.
paperback     $35.00
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Suess) and Richard H Minear


Dr Seuss Goes to War
This volume contains a treasure trove of World War II era political cartoons by the creator of "The Cat in the Hat", as political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper. His remarkable and arresting cartoons exhort readers to give full support to the war effort, put up with shortages, buy US savings bonds, and help control inflation.
paperback   $32.00
Paul Gravett


Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics presents an illustrated introduction to the development and diversity of Japanese comics from 1945 to the present. Featuring striking graphics and extracts from a wide range of manga, the book covers such themes as the specific attributes of manga in contrast to American and European comics
paperback    $60.00
Dylan Horrocks

Hicksville
paperback    $39.95
Misao Inaganki and Koji Suzuki


The Ring: Volume 1
The Ring, a Japanese multi-media frenzy based on the best-selling horror novels by Koji Suzuki, has already made its way to America in both a Western adaptation of the film, and an equally popular dubbed Japanese version of the film. Well, from Dark Horse Comics comes the equally fantastic manga, and it will be published, respectfully, in the increasingly popular "non-Western" format, meaning you get a kick out of reading from the back of the book to the front. For those of you who love your media in comic book form, you'll love seeing this creepy tidbit panel to panel, and for those who love film, step forward and find out why filmmakers idolize comics.
paperback    $30.00
Ben Katchor

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District
Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms.
paperback    $38.95
James Kochalka

Peanutbutter and Jeremy's Best Book Ever
Absolutely adorable! On the surface the story is silly and fun for kids, but for adults it's a clever critique of modern society. Absolutely adorable! Peanutbutter is the hardworking office cat, and Jeremy is the troublemaking crow.
paperback    $35.00

Fancy Froglin
Fancy Froglin
is a cute happy little frog who's highly sexual yet purely innocent. And he loves bunnies. Most important, he's really really funny.

paperback   $35.00


Fantastic Butterflies
James Kochalka has been called "one of the brightest lights of independent comics" and Fantastic Butterflies is a shining example of his genius. Magic Boy wanders drunkenly through a hallucinogenic nightmare world of Cancer Robots, softball showdowns, dance parties, barbecues, time machines, testicular injury, and cake-baking kung-fu cuties!
paperback   $35.00
Peter Kuper & Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis
Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike.
hardback    $45.95
Jason Lutes

Berlin: City of Stones Bk. 1
paperback    $39.95

Jar of Fools
Ernie is an alcoholic stage musician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide, and he's hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and by his side to guide Ernie through these difficult days.
paperback    $35.00
Joe Matt

Fair Weather
In this story, the author explores aspects of his own childhood in order to define the emotional aspects that make up a boy's world. Although containing all the hallmarks of a typical childhood, the author portrays the main character as manipulative and selfish, who uses comics as a form of currency. Cartoonist Joe Matt writes about himself, warts and all, revealing his personality, life and obsessions.
paperback     $35.00

Poor Bastard
paperback    $35.00

Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt
Cartoonist Joe Matt writes about himself, warts and all, revealing his personality, life and obsessions.
paperback    $35.00

Alan Moore

From Hell
Legendary modern comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a massive graphic tome exploring fact and theory alike about the Whitechapel murders of 1888. It's a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction, detailing the course of events that led up to the murders and the results of the cover-up that followed.
paperback    $49.95
Harvey Pekar

American Splendour
The inspiration for the award-winning movie from HBO Films and Fine Line Features AMERICAN SPLENDOR The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar Two classic comic anthologies in one volume Stories by Harvey Pekar Introduction by R. Crumb Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray
paperback    $32.95
Michael Rabagliati

Paul Has a Summer Job
paperback    $32.95
Joe Sacco
The Fixer
paperback   $39.95

Notes From A Defeatist
Part documentary, part satirical autobiography and part satire, this title collects all the shorter works that launched Joe Sacco on the path to his book-length "Palestine", from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes". The centrepieces of this work are a triptych of war stories.
paperback    $39.95

Palestine
In 1991 Sacco travelled to Jerusalem to observe Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Out of that trip comes this highly ambitious and successful telling of the refugees' stories.
Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore the complex, emotionally weighty subject of Palestine, this one-volume work combines the previously published nine-issue comic series that won a 1996 American Book Award.

paperback    $45.00
Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
hardback    $42.95

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Persepolis ended in a cliffhanger in 1984, just as 14 year old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war in Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow her through the next eight years of her life - four years in Vienna, and four years back in Iran.
hardback    $39.95
Arlen Schumer


The Silver Age of Comic Book Art
The Silver Age of Comic Book Art highlights the careers of eight acknowledged Hall of Fame artists who drew definitive versions of the industry's greatest characters, while often setting trends in the look of comic book art itself. It is the first book to concentrate on the importance of these artists and their work, as well as the literary and sociological aspects of the Silver Age.
paperback    $54.95
Seth

It's a Good Life, If You Dont Weaken
paperback    $42.95

Vernacular Drawings
hardback     $69.95
Dez Skinn


Comix: The Underground Revolution
paperback    $39.95
Art Spiegelman

The Complete Maus
paperback    $29.95

In the Shadow of No Towers
paperback    $29.95
Ralph Steadman and Lewis Carroll


Alice in Wonderland
hardback    $65.00
James Sturm

The Golemís Mighty Swing
paperback    $36.95
Bryan Talbot

The Tale of One Bad Rat
paperback    $29.95
Adrian Tomine

32 Stories
paperback    $26.95

Summer Blonde
paperback    $32.95
Chris Ware

Mc Sweeney's Quarterly Concern
Issue Number 13
Edited by Chris Ware
hardback    $39.95

Acme Novelty Datebook
hardback    $89.95

Quimby Mouse
hardback    $55.00

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid in the World
paperback    $39.95
hardback $55.00

 
Autumn
Booklist
Summer
Booklist
Reviews
Membership Order Shop
History
 

Come and see our Autumn Booklist!