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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""How are you feeling?" It's a difficult question to answer, let alone capture in visual form. But Manjit Thapp, popular Instagram artist and illustrator of The Little Book of Feminist Saints, does just that with touching honesty, exploring the depth, variety, and manifestation of the emotions that we all share, but often struggle to articulate. With lyrical, poetic prose and stunning graphic art, this book excavates what lies beneath that all too-common...
Author
Series
Blue period volume 6
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Second Exam. A surprising setback before the second exam shakes Yatora up, but after everything he's been through, he must persevere. This time, the subject turns out to be something both new and familiar... But does an average guy like Yatora stand a chance against the geniuses and prodigies vying for a spot in the nation's most competitive art school?" -- back of cover.
Author
Series
Blue period volume 8
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a disappointing first assignment, Yatora is encouraged by Maki and is determined to move forward. His next assignment is a scenery of Tokyo. As he takes on new materials and methods, he also becomes exposed to new ways of seeing the city he thought he knew so well. Can Yatora finally evolve beyond the 'exam art' that got him into art school?"--
Author
Series
Blue period volume 11
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora prepares for the first-year show, where he'll have to pass an open review from intimidating professors and celebrity guest lecturers. To make matters worse, the self-directed nature of the assignment is more stifling than freeing, and he's no longer sure: Does he even like art? Why did he ever start? An all-nighter in Shibuya may hold the answer, but Yatora's not with his usual boys...Yatora's first year at TUA has left his soul and his bank...
Author
Series
Blue period volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora prepares for the first-year show, where he'll have to pass an open review from intimidating professors and celebrity guest lecturers. To make matters worse, the self-directed nature of the assignment is more stifling than freeing, and he's no longer sure: Does he even like art? Why did he ever start? An all-nighter in Shibuya may hold the answer, but Yatora's not with his usual boys..."--
Author
Series
Blue period volume 9
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Summer has passed by quick as a typhoon and now Yatora is ready to get back to work in his second term at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Knowing now that great, large-scale art cannot be done except by teamwork and elbow grease, Yatora picks up a brush again after months to work on his masterpiece.
Author
Series
Blue period volume 12
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora's back on campus for year two and suprises abound. He's greeted by an old friend and then gets bombarded with new friends, instructors, and assignments! But one day, when Yatora encounters an artists' commune, he begins to question if TUA is really the right place for him..."--
Author
Series
Blue period volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately...a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst--and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be.... --
Author
Series
Blue period volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Art has changed the course of Yatora's once dull life, and now he's aiming for Japan's most competitive art school. With entrance exams a year away, he'll need to expand his limited eye for art, and quickly. He turns to new peers and the masters to envision pieces only he can produce, and soon dives into his first competition--the same one where his Art Club role model nearly scored last place. Among geniuses and lifelong art kids, does Yatora even...
10) Blue period: 14
Author
Series
Blue period volume 14
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora studies hard and gets good grades, and he parties hard, staying out late drinking and watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs to be the perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel empty, and he begins to wonder what part of his life expresses who he is...or even if he has a unique voice at all. Then he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty...
11) Blue period: 7
Author
Series
Blue period volume 7
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Tokyo University of the Arts is now Yatora's campus, where each new encounter with colleagues, professors, and assignments challenges everything he's ever known! Self-doubt and life's hardships still lurk around every corner, but running into an old friend may just turn things around.
12) Blue period: 5
Author
Series
Blue period volume 5
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora makes the best of a bad situation during TUA's first exam, and he must surpass these efforst for the second. But after all he's gone through, Yatora is feeling a little out of sorts. To get back on track, he'll have to step out of the studio and into new lighting. With the help of an old friend, Yatora bares his soul and some skin to take on his latest challenge: the nude self-portrait"--Back cover.
13) Blue period: 13
Author
Series
Blue period volume 13
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Yatora studies hard and gets good grades, and he parties hard, staying out late drinking and watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs to be the perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel empty, and he begins to wonder what part of his life expresses who he is...or even if he has a unique voice at all. Then he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty...
14) Blue period: 3
Author
Series
Blue period volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Relief is short-lived for Yatora after his first competition, where his piece ranks higher than expected but is far from his dream school's standards. He's prepared to give Ooba-sensei's challenges everything he's got... but what if all he's got is still not enough? With 100 days until university exams, Yatora must toil to produce a piece only he can."--Provided by publisher.
15) Blue period: 4
Author
Series
Blue period volume 4
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Yatora now has new materials in his toolbox and a wider range of expression under his belt. But a week before the first exam, Ooba-sensei says he's missing a crucial edge. With so much at stake, Yatora's self-doubt brings him lower than ever before. Still, he has his fire, his resilience--and he might just get a lucky break, too.
16) Go with the flow
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs--or worse, squirms--at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. Its no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each...
17) The plain Janes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Jane moves to the suburbs and thinks her life is over, she and three new friends form a club to make public art but are soon distracted by romance.
18) Syllabus
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Megan and Cass have been joined at the brush for as long as they can remember. For years, while spending summers together at a lakeside cabin, they created art together, from sand to scribbles... to anything available. Then Cass moved away to New York. When Megan finally convinces her parents to let her spend a week in the city, too, it seems like Cass has completely changed. She has tattoos, every artist in the city knows her--she even eats chicken...
Author
Series
Tomb raider king volume 5
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"TOMB WRITER KING Determined to get his hands on the powerful Relic within, Jooheon ventures into the first of the Seven Great Tombs. However, even this seasoned raider is helpless before the Relic of Sloth’s scorching flames! Just as he prepares for the worst, the fires suddenly go out, and he is…cordially greeted by Emperor Nero…?! As it turns out, Jooheon’s “failed” attempt at writing a novel has garnered him some very unusual fans....