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1) Party Dream
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The story of Gil Mantera's Party Dream - the craziest live band you've never seen. Footage from their insane live show provides a vicarious thrill, fueled by electronic rock, ridiculous fashion and no small amount of booze.
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In 1955, most ten-year-old boys dreamed of growing up to be firemen or jet pilots. But young Ed Hardy had the wild idea of becoming a tattoo artist. He saw his calling in the mystical images of pierced hearts, flaming eyeballs and bloody skulls. Today, he is revered as the godfather of modern tattooing.
3) Utown
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Utown is the story of a seedy neighborhood that a cast of misfits call home. Samuel is a twenty-four-year-old self-described aspiring artist (but mostly a video store clerk) who's doing his best to avoid adulthood. When gentrification shows up at his doorstep, he must face the fact that the town he grew up in is no longer his safe haven -- and that he's not ready to leave just yet. With no money and few options, it's time for him to either step up...
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With the failure of President Hoover’s policies at the end of 1929, marked by the stock market crash on October 24, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the decade that began with the dream of endless progress and prosperity came to an end with millions unemployed. American industrial workers who had lost their jobs lined up in the streets for a bowl of soup and hunk of bread. Depression, new technology and foreclosure by the banks drove more...
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Explore the dark, mystical, and mysterious work of Peter Bergting, collected for the first time in a gorgeous hardcover volume with an introduction by award-winning horror writer and longtime collaborator Christopher Golden!
Bergting's repertoire of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi illustrations include comics, magazines, novels, and games, and he's worked in collaboration with creative giants like Mike Mignola.
Award-winning comics artist and illustrator...
7) Eight limbs
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"After the devastating loss of her Muay Thai championship title, Joanna decided to walk away from competition, start a family, and open her own gym. But her quiet life gets disrupted when an old friend asks her to temporarily foster a troubled teen. Just as Joanna believes she is starting to break through Mari's walls, a misunderstanding drives Mari to run away and join an underground fighting ring. Joanna vows to do anything to get Mari back, even...
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The quintessential Film Noir - all the elements of corruption, sex, winners and losers. Edward G Robinson plays an amateur painter who protects a young woman. He is in a mid-life crisis and befriends a younger woman and convinces her he has a fortune. Her boyfriend convinces her to try and con him out of the money with disastrous results.
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Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928–87) is the most famous and influential of the Pop artists, who developed the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist could be as illustrious as the work he creates. This graphic novel biography offers insight into the turning point of Warhol's career and the creation of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men mural for the 1964 World's Fair,...