"As I War Myself" is a brutal but thoughtful novel about the deadly trap of addiction. The inner struggles and external repercussions of drug addiction are recounted in Javier De Alva Garza’s affecting book "As I War Myself". A... Read More

JP Ahonen’s "Belzebubs" collects the eponymous webcomics. Ahonen is a Finnish cartoonist and former musician who previously drew and co-wrote the graphic novel Sing No Evil, which combined music and the supernatural. With "Belzebubs",... Read More

Adapting Asian folktales and fables to comics form, "Tamamo the Fox Maiden" delivers twenty-one tales from across the continent. Aside from the Japanese title story and “The Ballad of Mulan,” familiar to many because of the Disney... Read More

Nick Thorkelson tackles the formidable task of distilling the life and work of a respected modern philosopher into a well-paced graphic biography in "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia". Born in Germany, Marcuse was a World War I... Read More

Co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir is best known in environmentalist circles. Julie Bertagna and William Goldsmith delightfully illuminate his life in their graphic novel "Wildheart". From his modest beginnings in Scotland, Muir... Read More

Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega have created a graphic novel version of a story long thought to be lost in "Giraffes on Horseback Salad". Based on the only known copy of artist Salvador Dali’s rough script, which he... Read More

Wayne Vansant combines thorough military and historical detail with unforgettable characters in his epic masterwork "Katusha". Vansant has long specialized in telling stories of war, from Marvel’s comic series The ’Nam to his many... Read More

Traditional superstitions are the inspiration for a rich, fully imagined fantasy world in the graphic novel "Haphaven". Alex, a girl who’s about to turn thirteen, is captive to her superstitions. From the stories of her long dead... Read More