Battling Boy 1

"Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't exactly what you'd call a catch ... Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears--breathless, apologizing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshall's utter amazement. She's too good to be true: attractive, young,...

Joe Sacco's books offer both sharp insight into the complexities of global politics and extraordinary glimpses of the everyday people who live in a war zones. He has been favorably compared with Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman for his ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the comic book medium. Sacco's groundbreaking first book, Palestine, was based on the author's months of research in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted more than 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews.

Este libro invita al niño a jugar al que quizás sea el primer juego que aprende: el "Cucú-tras". Le gustará observar las grandes ilustraciones de alegres colores y se divertirá levantando las solapas tras las que se esconden diferentes animales que viven en la selva y la sabana.

Aderezada con la presencia de personalidades de la música y del cine, la nueva novela gráfica de Durán y Giner Bou, autores de Una posibilidad entre mil y La máquina de Efrén, es una inquietante exploración del voraz laberinto que, a menudo, engulle las mejores historias de amor y amistad. Una gran amistad se acaba sin que uno sepa por qué. Una pareja que parecía perfecta se rompe. A raíz de un accidente de circulación, Manu -un crítico de cine culto y cínico, que vive refugiado en su soledad- comienza a rememorar sus años universitarios, en particular su amistad con Roberto y...