A collection of comics with a millennial take on marriage, adulthood, pet ownership, self-love, and self-care.

Finally, comics that answer life’s most pressing questions: Is my partner actually upset or just hangry? Whose turn is it to remember the reusable shopping bags? Is it appropriate to put up Halloween décor two months in advance? (Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, it is.)

“Opposites attract” has never rung truer when it comes to vivacious extrovert Meg and her level-headed introvert husband, Carson. Carson makes his coffee with only the finest locally roasted beans; Meg microwaves two-day-old joe.

Carson is reserved and rarely opens up to friends; Meg ensures everyone in her life—including her mailman—knows about her hemorrhoid. From the joys of marrying your best friend to the bizarre musings of a twelve-pound pup to the humour and heartbreak of anxiety, Meg’s all-too-relatable comics leave no stone unturned.

Why Are You Like This? – Meg Adams – 9781524874261

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Drawn from Tom Gauld’s popular comics feature in The Guardian, this collection perfectly distills Gauld’s dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Classic strips like « The Brontë Sisters: The Videogame » and « The Serious Rock Critic » (who’s written 32 books about Led Zeppelin) intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about politics and human behavior (see: « The Greedy Dog Stands on the Chair of Hope to Feast on the Sausage of Hubris ») and whimsical imaginings of the future (see: « The ‘Great Automaton Strike’ of 2029 Saw the Birth of the Robot Protest Song »).

Again and again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack – Tom Gauld – 9781770468061

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This book is the latest sly and charming collection of one- and two-page haiku-like comics from cartoonist Grant Snider. It explores our inner life, using colorful illustrations and clever visual metaphors to depict the spectrum of our emotions. Facing self-doubt? Overcoming fears? Grappling with indecision? Snider doesn’t present solutions to these challenges, but he does inspire and encourage, offering thoughtful reassurance and a unique, humorous perspective that’s characteristic of his work—an approach that resonates with millions of readers all over the world. Emotions can be tricky to navigate.

We overthink. We second-guess. And we can’t get out of our own way.

The reality is, it’s impossible for any of us to understand our complicated feelings fully. But fear not, because you’ve come to the right place.

Thinking About Thinking : Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings – Grant Snider – 9781419776588

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Meet Calvin–a chaos-loving six-year-old–and Hobbes, his witty tiger friend. This is only the beginning of one of the most beloved and imaginative worlds ever created.!

This first collection launches the iconic strip and friendship with snowball fights, time travel, philosophical musings, and original humor that captures the magic of childhood.

Together they mix everyday childhood events with adventure, rebellion, satire, and laughter–whether they’re building mutant snowmen, outsmarting babysitters, or pondering life’s biggest questions under the stars.

This debut volume also features exclusive original content with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau.

• Highlights from this collection include:
• The cardboard box as spaceship, time machine, and invention lab
• Calvin’s epic dinosaur daydreams interrupting schoolwork
• Monsters lurking under the bed (with Hobbes playing along)
• Snowball fights, sledding crashes, and bizarre snow sculptures
• Calvin’s ongoing battles with homework, babysitters, and classmate and neighbor Susie Derkins.
• Philosophical banter on everything from free will to the environment.

With expressive artwork and storytelling that balances chaos with insight, Bill Watterson transformed the antics of one mischievous boy and his tiger into something timeless. Both laugh-out-loud funny and quietly profound, this debut collection captures the spark that made Calvin and Hobbes a fan favorite from the very beginning.

Calvin and Hobbes – Bill Watterson – 9780836220889 (includes strips from November 18, 1985 (first strip) to August 17, 1986)

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Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet’s inhabitants, including milestones such as:

The Emergence Day

Being Gains a Sibling

The Being Family Attains a Beast

The Formal Education of a Being

Celebration of Special Days

Being Begins a Vocation

The Beings at Home

Health Status of a Being

The Hobbies of a Being

The Extended Family of the Being

The Being Reflects on Life While Watching the Planet Rotate

With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.

I feel more attractive.

Honestly, you are.

It’s the star damage.

I CRAVE STAR DAMAGE.

Stranger Planet – Nathan Pyle – 9780062970701

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B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh. . . and so it goes on, an A to Z of poor little orphans and their untimely ends. (Right up to the unfortunate ZILLA, who simply drank too much gin.)

The rhyming couplets of this grim abecedarian are familiar, of course, to devotees of macabre humor, but the darkly crosshatched drawings are (as Poe put it) « the soul of the plot. »

The Gashlycrumb Tinies – Edward Gorey – 9780151003082

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Like a warm embrace in comic strip form, the cute, cuddly, and clever illustrations by Andrés Colmenares bring joy to millions of readers across the globe. This book collects many of his most popular comics, along with dozens of never-before-seen images that are both heartwarming and hilarious.

Featuring cheerful characters like sloths, broccoli, snakes, cacti, pigs, and the cutest possible version of just about any animal or object you can imagine, Andrès Colmenares’ comics are wholesome, amusing, clever, and often hilarious. This book collects the greatest hits from his popular series and features dozens of new comics.

A Great Big Visual Hug – Andrès Colmenares – 9781524893880

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Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to his electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversize rubber gloves.

Find out what the hadron’s news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks, ?What is dark matter?? and ?Where is dark matter?? but do they ever take the time to ask, ?How is dark matter?? Based all on previous data, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh, guffaw, chortle or snort (we don’t have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.)

Physics for Cats – Tom Gauld – 9781770468054

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In this eagerly awaited sequel, Nathan takes us back to his charming and instantly recognizable planet colored in bright pinks, blues, greens, and purples, providing more escapades, jokes, and p h r a s e s.

Nathan mixes his most popular Instagram comics with more than thirty original works created exclusively for this second volume to explore four major topics: traditions, nature, emotions, and knowledge. He inducts new and longtime fans into a strangely familiar world and its culture, from ‘cohesion’ (marriage) to ‘mild poison’ (alcohol) to the full lyrics to ‘the Small Eight-Legged Creature’ (sung to the tune of The Itsy-Bitsy Spider).

Bright, colorful, and whimsical’yet charmingly familiar’Stranger Planet is out-of-this-world fun.

Stanger Planet – Nathan W Pyle – 9780063022607 – 16,50€

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Immerse yourself in the captivating adventures of some of history’s unsung heroines, whose stories are told through engaging voices, dazzling drawings and with startling wit. Discover the life of an apache warrior dubbed “strong as a man and braver than most of them”, the only female Empress of China, three rebel sisters who toppled a fascist regime, a dancer who escaped poverty in America to become the darling of the Paris jazz scene and a resistance fighter, and a little girl who grew up to realise that being a witch is better than being a princess.

Take in the stories of volcanologists, astronauts, animal whisperers, activists and explorers and feel ready to take on the world. Illustrated by award-winning Parisian artist Pénélope Bagieu, humorous dialogue and uncommon true tales make Brazen an ideal book for anyone who loves trail blazers and courageous women, from Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls to The Handmaid’s Tale.

Brazen: Rebel ladies who rocked the world – Pénélope Bagieu – 9781785039034

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