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Released: April 19, 2005
"Lighter in subject matter than her previous work, Satrapi keeps things semicomical, even when relating matters of severe heartbreak, and her dashed-off drawings (with their slightly childlike expressions) help matters along."
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Released: Feb. 1, 2005
"A moody and energetic variation on an old, old tale that seems brand-new."
A graphic novel updates a relationship that's doomed in the manner of Flaubert's tragic heroine's.
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Released: Jan. 4, 2005
"An unromantic, heartrending tale, wrapped in a cloak of nightmares. "
Fantastical, gloriously illustrated graphic memoir of the French cartoonist's life, overshadowed by an epileptic brother.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2003
"Pleasantly quirky first novel: its appealing lack of gravitas makes it far easier to take seriously than your standard (angst-ridden) coming-of-ager."
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Released: June 1, 2001
"Inviting enough to make readers seek out the novel—which means Heuet has done his job."
This comic-book version of Proust's masterpiece caused quite a stir when it first appeared in France, but the hoopla is undeserved.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2001
"Kuper's generically left politics sometimes dull his arresting images, but his stylistic inventiveness and sophistication make this an essential collection for students of graphic narrative and design."
Collecting work from the entire career, beginning back in the mid-1980s, of illustrator, cartoonist, and narrative artist Kuper (Mind's Eye, 2000, etc.), this full-color anthology displays a range and richness of design that places him among the best graphic artists of his time: innovative, insightful, and always compelling.
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Released: May 1, 2001
"Distinguished by a keen sense of period detail and sharp pacing: Geary serves his subject with dignity and grace."
The author/illustrator of Jack the Ripper (1995) continues to focus on Victorian crime in this latest historical comic, part of a series on 19th-century murder, based on a true-life story so compelling it inspired a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2000
"Stylistically similar to Giardino's previous work, this compelling narrative artfully plays with a question: Who's spying for whom? And the cliff-hanging ending of this first half sustains our interest in the answer."
After the stunning achievement of his
Jew in Communist Prague (1997–98), Giardino returns to familiar territory--his ongoing character, Max Friedman, a reluctant spy whose adventures intersect with 20th-century politics across a number of continents.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 15, 2000
"As parodies of human excess, the pigeons simply chase after the same promises in life. Amusing? Barely. Some may lap it up but few will find it as riotous as the Nick Twisp saga."
Self-publisher Payne, whose Nick Twisp series is making a splash (see below), creates his own
Animal Farm in a fable of escaped lab animals that can't give up booze, tobacco, and whatchugot.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2000
"Volume One of The Lost Bloch went quickly out of print, as almost certainly will Volume Two. Don't miss the fun."
Second of a promised three volumes (
The Devil with You!, 1999) of Psycho Bob's earliest penny-a-word paste gems from his golden days in pulps (
Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Blue Book, and
Imaginative Tales).
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Released: Oct. 1, 2000
"We are immortal, as long as continuity is vouchsafed to this life"."
A graceful 1986 meditation on ethnic identity, the mixed blessings of scientific discovery, and the nature of disability, written by a former East German novelist and teacher of mathematics and science.
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Released: Sept. 5, 2000
"Everything here boggles: the artfully conceived foldout dust-jacket, the cryptically word-burdened endpapers, and, most of all, the story itself: a graphic narrative that deserves a place beside the best novels of the year. "
The comics world has amply rewarded Ware for his amazingly innovative work--he's won numerous prizes for his
Acme Novelty Library, a combination of complex narratives about mice, a trove of visually arcane inventions (diagrammed with Rube Goldberg–like precision), and plenty of eye-straining text: a graphic self-effacement that echoes the creepy despair of Ware's main creation, Jimmy Corrigan.
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