A complete collection of the prize-winning and greatly acclaimed adaptations of Oscar Wilde's works, this specially priced set brings each story to life with brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art.

Each of the paperback volumes of Wilde's compelling tales are assembled here with close to 200 pages of exquisite comics, including such classics as "The Selfish Giant" who won't let the children play in his garden until the dire consequences make him see the light, "The Devoted Friend" on what constitutes real friendship, "The Nightingale and the Rose" a stirring story of sacrifice to love with a cruel twist, "The Birthday of the Infanta" where a hideous dwarf discovers that his good humor and tricks may not be the reason he receives such attention, and "The Happy Prince" where a once spoiled young prince finds what it means to make sacrifices.

378p

Ten hot stories about first times. From having sex to having a very different sexual experience such as going beyond the couple, or the woman strapping it on for her man, or... all from the point of view of women and all written by a French woman with some decidedly spicy ideas about sex!

All rendered by leading European artists, including Cyril Pedrosa (Three Shadows), Olivier Vatine (Aquablue) and most of all, the great Dave McKean!

A beautifully stylish yet unabashedly hardcore collection of true erotica presented in a handsome jacketed edition by artists who are doing this for the... first time.

HC, 9x11, 112pgs, B&W

Kyle has just settled in to his new city and job. He doesn't know anyone around but it's comfy enough in its boring routine. Erika, a pretty neighbor, catches his eye. They meet, they talk. Before they know it, they're an "item." Before they know it, in fact, they're very very together. It's a high but it's frightening. Is it really the right choice? Are they really for each other or just escaping loneliness? There's great moments. There's doubts. In the midst of happiness, Kyle gets nightmares of pulling his teeth out.

SC, 6x9, 192pgs, B&W

Niki de Saint Phalle knew art could save the world because art saved her. From madness, from violence. Even from herself.

A comics biography of the famous and controversial contemporary pop-style artist.

HC, 8x10, 186pgs, FC

This graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang.

From the ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he managed to extract an incredibly positive energy from this riot ridden era: his multiracial gang promoted peace rather than violence. After initiating a gang truce, the Ghetto Brothers held weekly concerts on the streets or in abandoned buildings, which fostered the emergence of hip-hop. Melendez also began to reclaim his Jewish roots after learning about his family's dramatic crypto-Jewish background.

SC, 6x9, 128pgs, B&W

The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior.

It's February 12, 1947 and the crème de la crème of Paris Haute Couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: it's a triumph! Dior's career is launched and Clara's story begins. Soon, she is picked by Dior himself to be his model. A biography docudrama marries fiction and the story of one of the greatest couturier in history.

HC, 9X11, 128pgs, FC

Ten years after her debut, Girl is back in a brand new four volume color series. She's just as sexy and lustful as ever, but has matured into a professional business woman.

The first story picks up three years after "The Rule of Darkness" and Girl is at the top of her game. High society, fame and wealth takes her into new adventures with old friends and new. She's also acquired the power of sorcery and she's had to learn to be careful how she wields it, especially against those who just can't resist pissing her off. The issue also introduces Girls' mega-club 'Girl World', as well as new adversaries, and ends with Girl witnessing a moment in history that changed the entire planet.

SC, 8.5x11, 56pgs

Exhausted from her trips in time, Jaleira (Girl) takes care of her thriving business in the Big Apple. She and her model sister La work out their bad blood, the family all seems to be clicking but someone is preparing a sinister showdown. All throughout, Jaleira, La, friends and even Jill mix it up heavy and raw!

SC, 8x11, 48pgs, FC

In the long awaited final volume of Girl: The Second Coming, Jaleira discovers that, after infecting her mother and sister, Kasmir is more than she thought he was. In order to save her family, she gets help from her old friends, Daemon and Starr, and travels back to another dimension where she must enlist the aid of a legend. However, she gets some unexpected help and learns what could have been.

SC, 8.5x11, 52pgs, FC

Glenn Gould was a Canadian pianist, a child genius who became a worldwide superstar of classical music remembered for, among others, his almost revolutionary interpretations of Bach.

This graphic novel biography seeks to understand the eccentric personality behind the persona. Who is the mysterious Glenn Gould? Why did he abruptly end his career as a performing musician? Why did he become one of the very first of his peers to disappear from the public eye like J.D. Salinger?

Sandrine Revel delves into the life of Gould with hand painted illustrations and the viewpoint of an adoring fan.

HC, 9x11, 136pgs, FC

Three engrossing and salacious stories. In the title story, a traveler in a bar is accosted by a very horny yount woman who bewitches him with unseen circumstances.

Then, a photographer is asked by her best friends to tape them having sex, only to have the camera turned on her. Finally, as he lays dying, an old woman reflects upon the passionate life she enjoyed with her husband.

From a variety of female viewpoints, Great Moves tells the stories of Caribbean people in love and lust.

SC, 8x11, 48pgs, B&W

A famous manga artist provides the latest entry in the Louvre collection of graphic novels.

After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese designer stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate or familiar recourse. When the fever breaks somewhat, he sets out on his visit and promptly gets lost in the crowded halls of the Louvre. Very soon, he discovers many unsuspected facets to this world in a museum, meeting artists and their works from various periods, in a journey oscillating between feverish hallucination and reality, finishing at the crossroads between human and personal history.

HC, 8x11, 136pgs, FC

Etienne Davodeau is a comic artist. He doesn't know much about the world of wine-making.

Richard Leroy is a wine-maker. He's rarely even read comics. But these two are full of good will and curiosity. Why do we choose to spend one's life writing and creating comics or producing wine? For more than a year, Etienne went to work in Richard's vineyards and cellar. Richard, in return, leapt into the world of comics. They opened a lot of bottles and read many comics. They traveled around, meeting authors and wine-makers sharing their passion for their jobs. The Initiates explores the nature of a man's vocation with a true life representation of it from two very different perspectives.

HC, 8x11, 272pgs, B&W

Another outstanding Spanish artist from Kiss Magazin presents everyday situations gone very, very lubricious.

Suddenly a guy gets lucky with... a neighbor, a client, a horny woman wanting sex NOW! Fetchingly rendered by Mapp. You'll love his hot wanton women.

SC, 8.5x11, 48pgs, FC

Erotic stories from ancient China by leading Chinese artists. Beautiful Asian women opening themselves to forbidden temptations as delicately rendered in exquisite watercolors and painting. A beautiful and very arousing album from the Middle Kingdom.

64p, HC

Joe is an American in the strange land of Turkmenistan who finds a good friend in Azat, a Turkmen dreamer whose optimism knows no bounds. With tales of doomed desert cab rides, nights of endless vodka shots, unlikely Turkmen business schemes, and secret girlfriends, Lonergan captures not only the bizarreness of living in a country where the president for life launches copies of his poetry books into space, outlaws gold teeth and renames the months and days, but also reveals that there is hope in seemingly hopeless situations.

SC, 6x9, 104pgs, B&W

One of the greatest artists of all time, as well as a genius inventor, Da Vinci was arrestingly tall and handsome.

This comics biography shows the process of his work and his inventions, his persecution as a gay man, and how the changing politics of his country and ebbs and flows of those in power affected him and his career. A turbulent story on an exceptional man. Complemented with back matter on his chronology, list of his oeuvres, and more.

HC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC

By the creator of Dungeon and Oddballz! You thought you knew Santa Claus, but think again! He may seem jolly, he may make giving out presents every year look easy, but what Santa goes through each and every year will surprise you! Li'l Santa, a suspenseful, fully silent graphic novel, takes readers into the huge yearly job that faces him, to say nothing that the North Pole is no friendly place! When one Christmas is over, another begins, and in Happy Halloween, Li'l Santa, he encounters the many critters of the night who take camp right next to his abode. The worst monster is an enormous devouring logging machine eating up his forest of Christmas trees! These light, delightfully original albums for Christmas will amuse readers of every age!

Näytettä kustantajan sivuilta.

The great talent behind Mr. O pours his heart out in funny snippets of everyday life. His paranoia, little annoyances, big annoyances, chase of rainbows, love of comics, travel impressions from around the world, dealing with kids, being a kid — it’s all about life as we know it. A collection from his comics blog that expands his palette with full-color painting, Trondheim’s uncanny sense of observation relates his experiences closely. Another touch of genius by one of today’s best and most influential comic artists.

SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC

Näytettä kustantajan sivuilta.

More of the acclaimed comics blog musings of one of the greatest comic artists alive today, author of Dungeon, A.L.I.E.E.E.N. and Mr. O.

6x 9, 128pp. full color trade pb

Trondheim's comics blog's next collection of his popular musings on the everyday ironies of life, his little anxieties, funny observations while on travel, his way of finding some cloud over the brightest sunshine, his obsessive hypochondria and other oh-so-easy-to-relate-to nerdy preoccupations. As he says himself, it's whole lotta not much. And people are lovin' it.

6x9, 128pp., full color trade pb with flaps

Trondheim's popular pithy and ironic little slices of life are back! Newsarama says of it: "So long as Trondheim continues creating work as strong as this, the comics world will be a bright place." "Smart and well-executed" says the Comics Reporter. Buzz has been tremendous! Posted in rotation on NBM's blog.

SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC