NONFICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Succeeds as both a graphic primer and a philosophical meditation."
Powerfully understated in both text and art, this matter-of-fact account of the atom bomb's development renders scientific complexity intelligible.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of equals."
Classic literature gets desterilized with the help of the modern world's most daring graphic artists.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Not simply the story of a disease, but of the flawed, complex, intelligent people whose lives it transformed."
The power of this graphic memoir is not that its story about a family dealing with Alzheimer's is so extraordinary, but that it has become so ordinary.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Subtitled "A Comic Drama," the narrative provides even fewer laughs than its predecessor but deeper introspection."
A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author's graphic-memoir masterpiece.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Mignola's affectionate, Kirby-esque portraits compliment Golden's imaginative, YA-friendly prose. "
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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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Both a work of social realism and a fable with a moral."
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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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Stunning in both the art and the audacity."
Visually arresting and emotionally devastating, this graphic memoir of war and childhood feels like an art book and explodes like a car bomb.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"An exemplary demonstration of the transformative possibilities of graphic narrative."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012
"A charming, hip, illustrated coming-of-age tale."
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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FICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"The state of an art that has yet to reach stasis."
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."
