Books like Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds

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.

Three Bone cousins—Fone, Phoney, and Smiley—are cast out of Boneville, wander a strange desert and forest valley, and eventually find refuge on Gran'Ma Ben’s farm, where hidden dangers await.

After a botched hit, ex‑cop turned hitman Nick Sax must evade cops and mob while confronting a child‑killer Santa armed with a deadly secret, all set to collide during a twisted Christmas with an unlikely companion named Happy.

In Criminal Vol. 5, detective Tracy Lawless is drawn into a citywide murder spree that mirrors classic mob hits, and she must confront her past to uncover the truth without turning to law enforcement.

In California’s Central Valley, six friends form a Jane Austen book club, spending six months debating her novels while navigating marriages, affairs, and new love.

In modern Tel Aviv, Koby Franco traces his estranged father’s past after a soldier contacts him with clues to a suicide bombing in Hadera. The search uncovers not only the father’s final months but the true identity of Koby himself.

A vengeful ex‑Vietnam vet waging revenge over deep‑cut crime networks, her return sparks a tense crime‑fighter saga pairing two friends with a shadowy gangster‑boxing world.

A graphic novel that follows Gemma Bovery, a young woman who leaves London for the Normandy countryside with her carpenter husband, only to find farm life monotonous and seek an affair in the rural landscape.

The original art that brought to comics life the writings of Neil Gaiman are collected together in THE SANDMAN Gallery Edition. In addition to artwork by Sam Kieth from THE SANDMAN #1 and P. Craig Russell's THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS includes pages from THE SANDMAN #2-75, the six-page story 'Death: A Winter's Tale' of the premiere talents in comics. This 272 page, 13' x 20' deluxe, Smythesewn hardcover volume is printed at 200 line-screen on heavy paper-stock replicating the original art experience. Never before has artwork by so many different top talents in comics been seen in this format.

It's so far beyond "just one of those days" that Amanda McIntyre can't think of a single thing that's going right. The banking industry is toast, her career in tatters, her girlfriend is up to her ears in someone else and New York City has frazzled Amanda's last nerve. It's not hard for her best buddy Malcolm to persuade her to take time out on a trip to his Australian home. Malcolm's sister Clancy is waiting at the airport and Amanda can't see the silver lining around this particular dark cloud. Clancy seems to blame the pampered banker princess from the States for the near-collapse of the family business. She'll tolerate the visitor, but only just. Amanda wants to run for home, yet one week becomes two ... becomes four ... Diana Simmonds is the author of Forty Love and Heart on Fire, and returns to lesbian romance with this irreverent tale of looking for-- and finding-- the dark cloud's silver lining.