Graphic Novels & Comic Books Book Reviews

THE GRAPHIC CANON

Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons

By Russ Kick (Editor)

Pub Date: May 22, 2012

Classic literature gets desterilized with the help of the modern world's most daring graphic artists.
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JOE GOLEM AND THE DROWNING CITY

By Mike Mignola (Author) , Christopher Golden (Author)

Pub Date: Apr 3, 2012

An adolescent orphan navigates a subterranean world of magic and technology with the help of an aged detective and his mysterious square-jawed protector.
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UNTERZAKHN

By Leela Corman (Author) , Leela Corman (Illustrator)

Pub Date: Apr 3, 2012

The graphic novel as feminist parable, concerning twin sisters who learn the brutal facts of life, set in New York in the early 1900s.
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TINA'S MOUTH

An Existential Comic Diary

By Keshni Kashyap (Author) , Mari Araki (Illustrator)

Pub Date: Jan 3, 2012

Indian-American high-school student with a thing for Jean Paul Sartre struggles with existential angst in this graphic-novel debut.
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THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2011

By Alison Bechdel (Editor)

Pub Date: Oct 4, 2011

Another annual cornucopia of graphic narrative (and comic strips).
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DEAR CREATURE

By Jonathan Case (Author)

Pub Date: Oct 1, 2011

A mutant submariner pines for a surface girl trapped in a prison of her own making.
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