Book Review
Creatures & Corridors
The exciting graphic novel Creatures & Corridors pays tribute to, and pokes fun at, the traditions of fantasy role-playing games. Five teenagers are drawn into a world of deadly monsters and magic in Brandon Auman’s exciting...
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The End of the Arab of the Future
Riad Sattouf’s exceptional graphic memoir "The End of the Arab of the Future" is about when his brother went missing. In 1992, Sattouf was fourteen years old. His father kidnapped his younger brother, Fadi, and took him to Syria....
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The Wallet and Other Thefts
The strange and surreal take center stage in Kristen Gleason’s beguiling short story collection "The Wallet and Other Thefts". The characters are often confused or detached, estranged observers of garden workers or weddings. In “The...
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The Roots of My Hair
A woman recounts the complicated history of her hair in Lou Lubie’s fascinating graphic novel "The Roots of My Hair". On Reunion Island, near Madagascar, Rose lives among people from a number of ethnic backgrounds. Still, she never...
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Gay Mormon Dad
Chad Anderson’s inspiring graphic memoir "Gay Mormon Dad" is about coming out and breaking away from his childhood religion. Raised in a large, devout Mormon family, Anderson grew up believing the tenets of the religion and its...
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The Last Watchtower
A lonely man at a remote moon outpost witnesses a catastrophe in Karl Slominski’s introspective graphic novel "The Last Watchtower". Cal Ferris has manned his post on the moon for sixteen years, alone except for Blip, the AI robot that...
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The Beast
A boy adopts a strange creature in Zidrou’s stunning graphic novel "The Beast". Francois and his mother Jeanne live in Belgium, where they face ridicule and mistrust: Francois’s father was a German soldier who returned home after...
Book Review
Everything Dead & Dying
A farmer attempts to save his loved ones during a zombie epidemic in Tate Brombal’s haunting graphic novel Everything Dead & Dying. Jack is a farmer whose husband, Luke, and daughter, Daisy, are zombies. They and their neighbors...
