FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"A funny, bizarre, unexpected pleasure that gives a creature from the depths heart and soul as well as a happy ending."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"A mature--in all its meanings--glimpse into a world few Westerners are at home with, and Thompson is respectful throughout."
Thompson (
Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, 2006, etc.) returns after a five-year absence with a graphic novel that is sure to attract attention--and perhaps even controversy.
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FICTION
Released: May 24, 2011
"The artist displays an affinity for dialogue balloons that float beyond the panel, while plenty of other powerful passages are simply wordless."
Empathy and creativity inform this unsentimentalized account of a young woman's loneliness.
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2011
"Clowes finds heightened reality in caricature."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
"A parallel dimension that readers might find creatively charged or thematically exhausting."
The book-length publication of the acclaimed visual artist's weekly strips defies narrative convention as a graphic novel.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2011
"A Rand primer with pictures."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2011
"Diggle's (The Losers: Book Two, 2010, etc.) taut, fast-moving narrative and Ibañez's in-your-face, Will Eisner–like artwork combine in a remarkably entertaining tale."
A rat catcher catches rats (informers) for the mob, but in this dark graphic novel it's an art to separate the rats from the cats.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 15, 2010
"Every year seems to raise the bar."
Another star-studded anthology grapples with the challenge of whether comics can survive respectability.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"The narrative builds to a revelatory climax that falls far short of a conclusion, implying the unstated, "To be continued…""
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"An achievement kindred to R. Crumb's Genesis (2009), though less literal and more compressed."
FICTION
Released: July 6, 2010
"Outlandish and frequently hilarious."
An unlikely premise--a polar bear makes it big in Los Angeles and then crashes--but somehow Cooper (
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, 2006, etc.) makes it work.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"Rollickingly inventive and often hilarious--but it seems at times like a skit that, perhaps in the wake of an atomic accident, has mutated into (dear God!) an epic. "
In a melting-pot society populated by the aliens and humans of 1950s space-invader movies, a brooding blue rebel with a giant brain grapples with prejudice and hormones in that most horrific of earthly battlegrounds--high school.
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