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Cover art for UNTERZAKHN
FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
by Leela Corman, illustrated by Leela Corman

"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. Read full book review >
Cover art for TANGLES
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
by Sarah Leavitt, illustrated by Sarah Leavitt

"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. Read full book review >
Cover art for ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
by Alison Bechdel, illustrated by Alison Bechdel

"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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE GRAPHIC CANON
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
edited by Russ Kick

"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. Read full book review >
Cover art for TRINITY
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. Read full book review >