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Recent Graphic Novels (page 2)


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 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 JOE GOLEM AND THE DROWNING CITY
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. Read full book review >