In her graphic novel memoir "Algeria is Beautiful Like America", Olivia Burton travels to her family’s former homeland, only to find that many of her beliefs about her family’s past, and Algeria as a whole, are wrong. Burton begins... Read More

In this exceptional book, hard science is boiled down to its essence and put into context through outstanding visuals. Ted Rechlin provides an informative and beautifully illustrated history of sharks in his graphic novel Sharks: A 400... Read More

Yehudi Mercado blends science fiction, kung fu, and hip-hop in "Sci-Fu", a unique and entertaining graphic-novel adventure. In 1980s Brooklyn, a young boy named Wax happily spins and scratches vinyl until he inadvertently answers an... Read More

In an entertaining and often laugh-out-loud twist on reality, Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow portray a world where cats live daily lives of work and responsibility—including taking care of their pet humans—in "Manfried the Man".... Read More

Craig Phillips offers excellent graphic adaptations of well-known and obscure fairy tales alike in Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods. Phillips includes characters who might seem familiar but are... Read More

Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña illuminate the career of a noted photographer in their biographical graphic novel Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. Published by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, "Photographic" might... Read More

One of manga’s masters of horror presents ten twisted stories in the compilation "Shiver". Junji Ito has been drawing manga since 1987, with some of his stories adapted into live-action and animated films. "Shiver" includes ten of his... Read More

A striking and memorable new heroine emerges in the pages of Valiant’s "War Mother". Van Lente and his colleagues create a rich, futuristic, postapocalyptic world in which Ana, better known as War Mother, leads her people in a quest... Read More