Uncivilized Holiday Gift Guide 2024
It’s that time of year again! The Holiday Season is here, and we’re running a huge holiday sale with 20-75% OFF discounts! We’ve selected some graphic novels that would look fantastic under any Christmas tree!
Ginseng Roots Complete Box Set by Craig Thompson
If you’ve been sleeping on this series, you can get all the issues without waiting! Drawn in two colors in Craig’s inimitable style, Ginseng Roots is an incredibly personal journey from small-town Wisconsin to a global odyssey to understand the medicinal ginseng plant’s history, mythology, commerce, and meaning. Ginseng Roots is Craig Thompson’s magnum opus! Gift the incredibly designed Ginseng Roots Box to store the 12-issue series on your shelf.
The Sickness Vol. 2 Subscription by Jenna Cha & Lonnie Nadler
The Comics Beat named The Sickness “among the best comics I’ve read this year, a truly cerebral and surprising horror comic that also serves as a strong example of the heights stories can hit in this medium. I absolutely loved this comic, and I can’t wait to read more.” The story continues in The Sickness Vol. 2. Gift a subscription to one of the best horror comics out today.
You can also catch up on the first arc of the story here.
Ex Libris by Matt Madden
A tour-de-force of cartooning. Matt Madden concentrated all of his creative powers on Ex Libris. Perhaps The New York Times said it best, “It’s an existential locked-room mystery — “Memento” with a bibliophilic twist — in which a dazed, nameless narrator tries to overcome his enigmatically dire impasse by looking for clues in the bookcase by the door. It’s a perfect vehicle for Madden’s talents and obsessions.” This beautiful oversized volume is the perfect gift for a discerning reader of graphic novels and the literary stylings of Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino.
Six Treasures of The Spiral by Matt Madden
Take a peek behind the curtain of the genius behind Ex Libris. The stories in Six Treasures of The Spiral masterfully demonstrate Matt Madden’s varied narrative games and experiments. This book contains an extensive afterword that offers insights into how he turned the shackles of complex constraints into a source of inspiration and ingenuity. If you want to explore new creative challenges, you’ll leave this book eager to work on forging your narrative jewels. It perfectly matches Matt’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
Evil Eyes Sea by Ozge Samanci
The Guardian named Ozge Samanci’s Evil Eyes Sea one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2024! In Guardian’s own words, “Two Istanbul students investigate the death of a friend who plunged into the Bosphorus in a Cadillac. It’s a fine mix of Tintin-style adventure and social commentary, complete with smelly dorm rooms, puffed-up gangsters, and Scuba diving.
The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell
Don’t miss your chance to own a slice of Uncivilized’s history with our first-ever graphic novel, The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell. This masterpiece launched Uncivilized into the world and firmly established Gabrielle Bell as a premier memoir cartoonist. Take this opportunity to gift a piece of our legacy. Limited quantities remain.
Cannonball by K. Wroten
K. Wroten’s Cannonball, winner of the Lammy Award for Best LGBTQ Graphic Novel, has become an LGBTQ classic! Lambda Literary writes, “Wroten goes far beyond simply identifying the labor conditions that threaten the much-needed work queer artists do to produce new narratives and viable mythologies to sustain LGBTQ+ people. This is also a more universal story of exploring the complexities of human psychology: in line with Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother and Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Wroten’s story is about a person trying to control extremes of feeling and understand their source.”
Draw Stronger by Kriota Willberg
Draw Stronger is essential if you draw comics, aspire to draw comics, or know someone who does. We often perceive drawing as a non-physical labor. But intense drawing sessions will tax your body in unexpected ways. Kriota encourages us to see drawing as the intense physical activity you must train for. Power up and prevent aches, pains, and more serious injuries!
Pascin by Joann Sfar
Joan Sfar needs no introduction; he’s one of the giants of French comics. The story of roguish Jules Pascin is one of Sfar’s most personal projects. Sfar portrays Pascin as a kindred spirit and an aesthetic revolutionary struggling to redefine an art form. Set during the height of the French modernist period, Pascin brings intense criminal energy to the art world as he hangs out with Chagall, Hemingway, prostitutes, and mafiosos. It’s one of Sfar’s best and most overlooked books.
Unended by Josh Bayer
Josh Bayer’s inky line is legendary. It is influenced by Raymond Pettibon’s punk LP sleeves as much as Anselm Kiefer’s haunted expressionism or Jack Kirby’s monumental and exhilarating action. Tangled textures and kaleidoscopic color boldly fuse on the page into comic book semiotics, flights of grandeur, and tangents inside tangents. Josh Bayer stitches scattered memories into surrealistic episodes permeated with dream logic. Nominated for the Ignatz Award, Unended may be a Promethean journey towards fiery triumph and emotional closure, or will it be a doomed quest that remains unending? Jonathan Lethem said it best, “heart-rending and sense-flooding, gorgeous, tragic, generous and vulnerable – Unended is an artwork I’ll never forget.”
First There Was Chaos by Joel Priddy
Greek myths have inspired stories and art for millennia. Yet, some stories and characters remain unfamiliar. First There Was Chaos explores the formless, primordial, and extraordinary forces that preceded the Olympian gods. These tales of Creation illustrate the creative process, giving cosmic form to the universal struggles of all creators. Based on Hesiod‘s Theogony and other classic sources, First There Was Chaos synthesizes fragmentary myths into a compelling narrative accessible to a contemporary audience.
Monday by Andy Hartzell
Our newest release, Andy Hartzell’s Monday, begins on the second week of God’s Creation, the eighth day. A new entity looms over Eden, causing unease. Will this next-gen creature disrupt the established order? Eden’s first couple must intervene with their Maker before His latest Creation makes them redundant. Yet, they must be cautious; interfering with the creative process is a dangerous game.
Even in our hyper-technologized age, one of the oldest creation stories still resonates. It speaks to modern audiences haunted by specters of robots and Artificial Intelligence. Andy Hartzell’s provocative metaphysical slapstick comic, Monday, is a fable for our unstable age, a timeless, relevant narrative.
Museum of Mistakes by Julia Wertz
Julia Wertz’s hilarious antics, documented in her long-running, long-out-of-print mini-comic series, The Fart Party, are legendary. Museum of Mistakes collects anything and everything that is and was The Fart Party. PLUS: numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains, and more. This massive 528-page tome is a must-have for all fans of Julia Wertz’s comics and real-life stories that make us laugh and cry at the sheer absurdity of existence.
Old Caves by Tyler Landry
Tyler Landry’s haunting story won the Doug Wright Award—Canada’s top comics prize—for the best small-press book. Take a peek through a frost-covered window at isolation, obsession, and the slow erosion of relationships. Landry renders the austere cold landscapes of Canada’s north in masterfully composed brushy black-and-white art.