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Genevieve Foster
Genevieve Foster (1893-1979)

illustrator

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, Rockford University

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George Washington
The world of William Penn
Birthdays of freedom:From Early Egypt to the Fall of Rome
George Washington's world
The world of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631
Augustus Caesar's world
Abraham Lincoln's world, 1809-1865
The year of the horseless carriage, 1801
Year of Columbus, 1492
When and where in Italy
The world of Columbus and sons
The year of the flying machine, 1903
The World of Captain John Smith
Theodore Roosevelt an Initial Biography
Abraham Lincoln's World
Abraham Lincoln's World
Year of Lincoln, 1861
Year of the Pilgrims, 1620
Abraham Lincoln's world, 1809-1865
Theodore Roosevelt
Year of independence, 1776
George Washington's world
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
World of Columbus and Sons
Linken zhuan =
Birthdays of freedom
Birthdays of freedom from early Egypt to the fall of Rome
Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes (born 1961)

cartoonist, comics artist

  • Pratt Institute, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

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The Daniel Clowes Reader A Critical Edition Of Ghost World And Other Stories With Essays Interviews And Annotations
Daniel Clowes
Ghost World
The Death-Ray
Wilson
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories
Caricature
Twentieth century eightball
Like a velvet glove cast in iron
David Boring
Art School Confidential
Ice haven
Mister wonderful
The art of Daniel Clowes
Pussey!
The Complete Eightball 1-18
Will Elder
El rayo mortal
Patience
Como un guante de seda forjado en hierro/ Like a Velvet Glvoe Cast in Iron
David Boring
Eightball Postcards
Món fantasmal = Ghost world
Daniel Clowes
#$@&! The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection
Món fantasmal = Ghost world
Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn
Lloyd Llewellyn 2
Ghost Word. Edición Esencial
Como un guante de seda forjado en hierro / Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Como un guante de seda forjado en hierro
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Twentieth Century Bola Ocho
Monica
Twentieth Century Bola Ocho
Caricatura
Death Ray
DANIEL CLOWES - DAVID BORING (
Pussey
Como un guante de seda forjado en hierro
Dream
Caricatura
El rayo mortal
Orgy Bound
Paciencia
Pussey!
David Boring
Wilson
Patience
Ghost World
Pussey
Eightball
Demir Döküm Kadife Eldiven
MISTER WONDERFUL
Lloyd Llewellyn 2
Paciencia
Ghost World: Bola Ocho
Ghost World
Como un guante de seda forjado en hierro
Pussey!
Ghost World
Ghost World - edition spéciale
El rayo mortal
Complete Eightball 1-18
Twentieth Century Eightball (20th Century Eightball)
David Boring (Spanish Edition): David Boring (Bola Ocho/Eight Ball)
Ghost Word. Edición Esencial
Caricatura
Ghost world
David Boring
Ghost world
Ghost world
Creeps
Lout Rampage
Death Ray
David Boring
Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916-1982)

playwright, painter, director, film director, illustrator, essayist, graphic artist, librettist, film producer, musician, production designer

  • University of Westminster, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

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Fluchtpunkt
Hölderlin
Die Ermittlung
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands
Abschied von den Eltern
Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden
Briefe an Hermann Levin Goldschmidt und Robert Jungk, 1938–1980
Peter Weiss im Gespräch
Trotzki im Exil
The new trial
Hölderlin
Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers
Rekonvaleszenz
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1
Rapporte
Discourse on Vietnam (Playscripts)
Notizbücher 1960–1971
Marat/Sade ; The investigation ; and The shadow of the body of the coachman
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats
Two plays
L'Esthetique de la résistance, tome 3
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdru?ckten gegen ihre Unterdru?cker
Notizbücher
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Ln, in 3 Bdn., Bd.2
Réponse à Johnson sur les bombardements limités ou l'Escalade U. S. au Vietnam d'avril á juin 1968
Das Kopenhagener Journal
Rapport om Förenta staternas förstärkta angrepp mot Nordvietnam efter den 31 mars 1968
'Limited bombing' in Vietnam
Dramen
Bodies and shadows
Die Situation
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam
Der neue Prozess
Peter Weiss
Vietnam
Diesseits und jenseits der Grenze
Stücke
Notizen zum kulturellen Leben in der Demokratischen Republik Viet Nam
Das Duell
Der Maler Peter Weiss
Der Turm
The conversation of the three walkers
Füreinander sind wir Chiffren
Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
Inferno
Leavetaking
Werke in sechs Bänden
Peter Weiss als Maler
Two plays
Discours sur la genèse et le déroulement de la très longue guerre de libération du Vietnam
Peter Weiss
Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz
Nacht mit Gästen ùnd Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam
Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz und andere Stücke
Comment Monsieur Mockinpott fut libéré de ses tourments
Chant du fantoche lusitanien
Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I
In Gegensätzen denken
Gesang vom lusitanischen Popanz und andere Stucke
Landskapen i drömmarna
Leavetaking [and] Vanishing point
Turandot oder Der Kongre der Weiwscher / Publikumsbeschimpfung / Helm / Genusien / Fulein Julie / Goldene Stdte / Der frhliche Weinberg (Spectaculum -
Peter Weiss
Diskurs uber...Viet Nam
Holderlin
Die Herausforderung Peter Weiss
Rapporte 2
Canto do papão lusitano
Stücke II
Discourse on Vietnam
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und-Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam nach derErklärung Präsident Johnsons über die "begrentze Bombardierung" am 31. März 1968
Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird
Briefe an Henriette Itta Blumenthal
Situationen
Leavetaking
Notizbücher, 1960-1971
Die Besiegten
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und- Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam, nach der Erklärung Präsident Johnsons über die "begrenzte Bombardierung" am 31
Sången om Skråpuken
Werke in sechs Bänden
Aufsätze, Journale, Arbeitspunkte
Viaje a la España de Franco
Peridah min ha-horim
Trotsky en exil
Das Duell
DER SCHATTEN DES KÖRPERS DES KUTSCHERS
רדיפתו ורציחתו של זאן פול מרה
Fluchtpunkt
DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS
Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden
ha-Tsel shel gufo shel ha-ʻeglon
מרה סאד
Erzählungen. 2 Cassetten.
Abschied von den Eltern
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
Bericht über die Angriffe der US-Luftwaffe und -Marine gegen die Demokratische Republik Viet Nam
Nacht mit Gästen
Nya processen
Joseph Beuys Plakate
Two plays
Caritas im geeinten Deutschland
Abschied von den Eltern/Fluchtpunkt
Kursbuch
Der Prozess
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis of Sade
Die Notizbücher
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker, sowie über die Versuche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika die Grundlagen der Revolution zu vernichten
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker
De besegrade
Peter Weiss
Dramen
Notes on the cultural life of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats, dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the marquis de Sade
Från ö till ö
Diskurs über die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des lang andauernden Befreiungskrieges in Viet Nam als Beispiel für die Notwendigkeit des bewaffneten Kampfes der Unterdrückten gegen ihre Unterdrücker, sowie über die Versuche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika die Grundlagen der Revolution zu vernichten
Peter Weiss reading from his works
The Marquis De Sade
La indagación
Redifato u-retsiḥato shel Z'an Pol Marah kefi she-hutsag ʻal yede lahaḳat ha-śaḥḳanim shel bet ha-marpe le-ḥole-nefesh be-Sharenṭon be-hadrakhato shel ha-Marḳiz Deh Sad
Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (1925-2000)

illustrator, costume designer, puppeteer

  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University

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Ascending Peculiarity
Born to be posthumous
Instant Lives and More
Instant Lives
Dark Forces
For Our Children
The Doubtful Guest
Amphigorey Too (Amphigorey #2)
The Gilded Bat
Brer Rabbit and His Tricks
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
The Willowdale Handcar
The headless bust
Treehorn's Treasure (The Adventures of Treehorn #2)
Rumpelstiltskin
Donald and the ...
The unstrung harp, or, Mr. Earbrass writes a novel
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
Why we have day and night
The sopping Thursday
Amphigorey
The Haunted Tea-Cosy
The Gashlycrumb tinies, or, After the outing
The wuggly ump
Treehorn's Wish (The Adventures of Treehorn #3)
The Curse of the Montrolfes
The epiplectic bicycle
You Know Who
The blue aspic
The iron tonic, or, A winter afternoon in Lonely Valley
More of Brer Rabbit's tricks
The object-lesson
The Water Flowers
Sam and Emma
Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses
The Glorious Nosebleed
Light Metres
The Monster Den
Amphigorey also
The listing attic ; The unstrung harp
Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs
Donald Has a Difficulty (Donald #2)
The Utter Zoo
The curious sofa
Tristan Encoge (The Adventures of Treehorn #1)
The Insect God (The Vingear Works #2)
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Category
The Man Who Sang the Sillies
Floating Worlds
Fletcher and Zenobia
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
Fletcher and Zenobia save the circus
The disrespectful summons
The lavender leotard
The other statue
Gorey games
Amphigorey Again
Three Ladies Beside the Sea
Cultural Slag
The raging tide
The west wing
The Loathsome Couple
Saint Melissa the Mottled
The Utter Zoo Alphabet
The dripping faucet
The remembered visit
The bug book
Haunted Looking Glass
The Hapless Child
The black doll
The fatal lozenge
The dwindling party
Halloween Treat
The broken spoke
The Gorey alphabet
The betrayed confidence
The vinegar works
Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design
Merrill Moore and the American sonnet
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
EDWARD GOREY ADVENTURES OF GREMLIN
Tunnel Calamity
COFFRET GOREY 94 5V
Les passementeries horribles
Angel, the Automobilist, and Eighteen Others
Gorey cats and paper dolls
The Osbick Bird
The fantod works
The eclectic abecedarium
Goreys Dracula
The Donald Boxed Set Donald And The Donald Has A Difficulty
The lost lions
The beastly baby
The Jumblies, &, The Dong with a luminous nose
The listing attic
The unknown vegetable
The just dessert
Gorey Creatures
The Evil Garden
Edward Gorey 2008 Postcard Planner
Edward Gorey Address Book
The betrayed confidence revisited
Gorey x 3 ; drawings by Edward Gorey
The eleventh episode
L' heure bleue
Dancing cats
The prune people
The abandoned sock
Edward Gorey Coloring Book
Edward Gorey's Dracula : A Toy Theatre
Gorey posters
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
Mélange funeste
Fantod Pack
Mysterious Messages, Cryptic Cards, Coded Conundrums, Anonymous Notes Book of Postcards
The new poster book
Edward Gorey the Utter Zoo Alphabet
Les Echanges Malandreux
The pointless book, or, Nature & art
Gargouilligouilla
Halloween
The New York review quiz book
Gorey Children
The sinking spell
Cal 01 Days of the Art and Words of Edward Gorey
Leaves from a mislaid album
Les urnes utiles
La balade troublante
The Case of the heavy reader
The dancing rock
F.M.R.A.
The tuning fork
Total zoo
Gorey cats
Trilogia
Rotkäppchen
The prune people II
Two novels from the Fantod Press
Edowādo Gōrī no yūga na himitsu
The improvable landscape
Looking for Edward Gorey
The Curious Sofa/The Gashlycrumb Tinies - 10 Copy Assortment
Gravengrum-ungerne eller Efter udflugten
The inanimate tragedy
Giftskåpet
A mercurial bear
Gorey world
A limerick
Gorey Stories
Hauntings
Balaclava
The fraught settee
The universal solvent
Post Cards
The Poets' Theatre celebrates the T.S. Eliot Centennial with Willian Alfred [and 21 others], Monday December 5th 8 PM ...
A Gorey festival
Q.R.V.
Gorey by Grimes (Cp 1651)
Cartoons für Intelligente
Le grenier pentu
The secrets
The pious infant
Jack the Giant-killer
The vinegar works
Thoughtful alphabets
Fantod IV
The Catafalque works
The stupid joke
Three books from the Fantod Press
Artist of mystery
The deadly blotter
Posters
Eine seltsame Sammlung
[The nursery frieze
Figbash acrobate
An ominous gathering
The retrieved locket
The green beads
The improvable landscape
Cristy Road
Cristy Road (born 1982)

historian, memoirist, illustrator, graphic novelist, musician

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Indestructible
Bad habits
Spit and passion
Next World Tarot
Next World Tarot : Pocket Edition
Bengt af Klintberg
Bengt af Klintberg (born 1938)

ethnologist, printmaker, folklorist, artist

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Hylla
Rebecka och tigern
Svenska trollformler
Harens klagan
Harens klagan och andra uppsatser om folklig diktning
Namnen i almanackan
Svensk fluxus =
Oknytt
The cursive Scandinavian salve
Folkminnen
Svenska folksägner
Kuttrasju
Pelle Plutt
Skogsdykaren
Tro, sanning, sägen
Skogsmusen och husmusen och andra gamla djursagor
Nordsägner =
Stockholmsspelet
The types of the Swedish folk legend
Sju röster om Almqvist
Råttan i pizzan
Glitterspray & 99 andra klintbergare
Svenska folksägner
Svensk folkpoesi
Hallå där--köp blåbär!
Vår tids folkkultur
Jungfru Maria gick i gräset
Keiji Nakazawa
Keiji Nakazawa (1939-2012)

mangaka, visual artist

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Hiroshima
"Hadashi no Gen" jiden
"Hiroshima" no kuhaku
Barefoot Gen Vol. 4, Barefoot Gen Vol. 5 (Splitting Works needed)
Barefoot Gen =
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 3
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 10
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 2
Barefoot Gen: Life After the Bomb
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 4
Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1
Barefoot Gen Volume 8
Barefoot Gen Volume 10
Barefoot Gen: The Day After
Barefoot Gen Volume 7
Pies Descalzos
Barefoot Gen Volume 1 : Hardcover Edition
Barefoot Gen Volume 3
Barefoot Gen Volume 2
Barefoot Gen Volume 4
Barefoot Gen Volume 9
Barefoot Gen Volume 6
Barefoot Gen
Yalinayak Gen 3. Kitap
"Hadashi no Gen" e no tegami
Yalinayak Gen 6. Kitap
Yalınayak Gen - Bombadan Sonra
Yalınayak Gen Ertesi Gün 2. Kitap
Yalinayak Gen 4. Kitap
Hadashi no Gen
Hadashi no Gen
Hadashi no Gen wa pikadon o wasurenai
Hadashi no Gen
Okinawa
Hadashi no Gen
Hadashi no Gen
Hadashi no Gen
Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen)
Yalinayak Gen 2 - Ertesi Gun
Hadashi no Gen
Der Tag danach
Hadashi no Gen
Gen d'Hiroshima
Yalinayak Gen - Bitmeyen Savas
The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic faunas of Kashmir
Hadashi no Gen
Hadashi no gen
Chinchin densha no uta
Barefoot Gen Volume 5
Yalınayak Gen Küllerin İçinden 4. Kitap
Yalınayak Gen Hiroşima'nın Hikayesi 1. Kitap
Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima : Barefoot Gen/Barefoot Gen : The Day After/Barefoot Gen : Life After the Bomb/Barefoot Gen
Hadashi no Gen
Bruno Caruso
Bruno Caruso (1927-2018)

painter, graphic designer, illustrator, graphic artist, art critic

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Le giornate romane di Leonardo Sciascia
Lenin a Capri
Il disegno
La tigre di carta
Bruno Caruso
Vietnam
Mitologia dell'arte moderna
Il pugno di ferro
Bruno Caruso, Zeichnungen und Graphiken
Le giornate della pittura
Credono di essere noi
La pietra celeste
Disegni di Bruno Caruso
Il Gattopardo e i racconti di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Ispirandosi all'Orto botanico