Books like Drinking at the movies by Julia Wertz

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, *Fun Home*, chronicles her complex relationship with her father, a funeral-home director, and her own coming-of-age as a lesbian, using intimate drawings and witty narrative.

Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half turns her popular blog into a charming collection of witty essays, poignant stories, and hand‑drawn cartoons that explore humor, depression, and everyday life.

In a blustery Wisconsin winter, two brothers navigate sibling rivalry and a budding romance as they grow up in an isolated rural setting.

A graphic memoir that portrays high‑school friend Jeffrey Dahmer as a shy, alcohol‑using teen facing deep inner turmoil, offering a rare sympathetic view of the future serial killer.

Alison Bechdel revisits her childhood in this graphic memoir, uncovering the layered relationship with her mother—an avid reader, music lover, and concealed gay artist—while exploring psychoanalysis, literary heritage, and the quest for understanding.

A graphic novel chronicling the social conditions and politics of Burma through the eyes of a respected international reporter, focusing on everyday life and resilience in the face of authoritarian rule.

187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmGN500L Lexile

The Nao Of Brown follows Nao Brown, a 28‑year‑old hafu artist battling obsessive‑compulsive disorder as she seeks creative success, love and inner peace.

Joe Sacco’s graphic memoir documents his 1991‑1992 journey through the Occupied Territories, combining eyewitness reportage with comic storytelling to portray the Palestinian experience.

"A Night of Serious Drinking is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like his Mount Analogue, it is a work of symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as an entertaining and imaginative story, but also for the much deeper meaning embedded in its deceptively simple plot: An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes intoxicated and more and more exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey ranging from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell. The fantastic world depicted in A Night of Serious Drinking is actually the ordinary world tumed upside down. The characters are called the Anthographers, Fabricators of Useless Objects, Scienters, Nibblists, Ciarificators, and other absurd titles. Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar; scientists dissecting an animal in their laboratory a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians and poets expounding their rhetoric. These characters perform hllarious antics and intellectual games, which they see as serious attempts to find meaning and freedom." "Daumal's keen perceptions about the human condition infuse A Night of Serious Drinking with a critique of culture and consciousness that is both disquieting and enlivening Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.