ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A COMIC DRAMA cover-artist-Julian Totino Tedesco and deeply literary story from

and deeply literary story from writer Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau

now in one volume—a “beautifully rendered meditation on the struggle for gay acceptance in today’s Japan" (CNN)Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo

all seasoned with the principles of the major Eastern religious doctrines and the unmistakable style of Shintaro Kago

with Racer Calhoun and the rest of Cadre Zeus finally learning why they've been assembled: to destroy Oceanus

and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A COMIC DRAMA cover-artist-Julian Totino Tedesco and deeply literary story fromGraphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdels own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back