A delightful celebration of Jewish delicatessens in an accessible comics format, full of history and humor, and guaranteed to make you hungry.Beloved culinary and cultural institutions, Jewish delis are wonderlands of amazing flavors and great food—bright, buttery, briny, sweet, fatty, salty, smoky. . . . In The Jewish Deli, comics artist and deli aficionado Ben Nadler takes a deliciously entertaining deep dive into the history and culture of this food and...

Ben Nadler's latest novel, Prairie Ashes, follows Barb-a Midwestern punk living on the West Coast in the 1980s. In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, she reconnects with her estranged Uncle Larry, a man inextricably tied to the Nickell family, working-class miners who served on the front lines during the Illinois Mine War of the early 20th century. Inspired by Larry, Barb begins documenting the historical conflicts of the mine war, World War II, Vietnam, and American labor-...

Much has been written about the glamorous and short-lived New York City punk rock scene of the late 1970s. Less has been written about the second-wave punk scene that followed in the 1980s. Unlike the earlier scene, the '80s punk scene took place largely outside of the established downtown clubs, in the streets and squats of the Lower East Side. Punk in NYC's Lower East Side, 1981-1991, the first installment in the Scene History Series offers a glimpse into this important cultural moment, ...

"Ben Nadler retells one of my favorite fairy tales … turning it into a fast-paced and irreverent graphic novel. The result is funny, engaging and an absolute delight. "—New York Times Book ReviewYoung Randall dreams of adventures until one day he’s sent off on a mission to discover the neighboring king’s secret. When he returns, he’s thrown in a dungeon and despairs until Princess Tilda — the power behind the throne – entices him to compete for her hand. C...

一群哲學家憑藉理性和熱情，戰勝宗教、王室、傳統的故事。一本手法獨特、聰明，可愛又幽默的哲學圖畫書！《斜門歪道！近代哲學的驚世起源》是本娛樂生活、啟發智慧的圖畫書，講述十七世紀的思想家如何挑戰權威，有些不惜冒上驅逐、監禁和死刑的危險，為現代哲學奠定基礎，帶領人類走進新的世界。書裡的故事精彩，圖畫繽紛，透過漫畫介紹現代思潮誕生，手法獨特、聰明，亦不失可愛幽默。這些備受爭議的哲學家──從伽利略與笛卡兒，到史賓諾沙、洛克、萊布尼茲、牛頓，從根本改變我們看待世界、社會、自我的方式，推翻地心說與君權神授等觀念。這些思想家追求理性的熱忱多於信仰，挺身而出捍衛自然、宗教、政治、知識與人類心靈種種嶄新卻惡名昭彰的論點。《邪門歪道！近代哲學的驚世起源》生動描繪這些哲學家的想法、生平與時代。隨著這些哲學家在歐洲各地流亡、旅行，說故事的人描述他們相會與鬥智的經過，他們又是如何衝撞宗教與王室的勢力。本書點出現代哲學史上重要的時刻，包括布魯諾散播邪說而被燒死，伽利略堅持哥白尼學說而被軟禁，笛卡兒宣告「我思故我在」，霍布斯「危險又暴力」的自然...

An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thoughtThis entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority—sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death—to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and color illustrations,

Un recuento histórico e imperdible en formato de novela gráfica sobre el surgimiento del pensamiento y la ciencia modernos.Herejes es un brillante recuento sobre los filósofos que antepusieron la evidencia y la razón a la religión, la autoridad y las ideas arcaicas.Durante los siglos XVII y XVIII hubo muchos pensadores que desafiaron la autoridad, y que arriesgaron, en muchas ocasiones, su libertad e incluso su vida debido a sus ideas revolucionarias. Herejes

An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth centuryMenasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the “Portuguese Nation” in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercantile and scholarly vitality. Born ...