Category Archives: Graphic Novels / Comics

To Be or Not To Be

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Jenny

So take the following: Choose Your Own Adventure, Shakespeare, illustrations, humor. Which belong together? In Ryan North’s book To Be or Not To Be, a choosable-path adventure based on Hamlet, you can have all of the above! At the beginning … Continue reading →

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March: Book 3

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Teresa

The third volume of John Lewis’s memoir in comic-book form picks up with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four girls. As the head of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Lewis, along with fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphic Novels / Comics, Memoir, Nonfiction | 7 Comments

Y: The Last Man

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Jenny

On July 17, 2002, a plague sweeps the world. All mammals with a Y chromosome — including embryos and sperm — die nearly simultaneously, along with many women in accidents such as plane crashes. Society and infrastructure collapses into chaos, … Continue reading →

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The Sandman: Overture

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Jenny

Years ago, my husband made a ceremony of giving me each of the oversize, deluxe editions of the Sandman comics for Christmas, one year after another. I’d spend Christmas afternoon lost in them, absorbed, with an incongruous background of choristers … Continue reading →

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The Arrival

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Teresa

This wordless graphic novel by Shaun Tan presents a familiar immigrant tale, but the presentation makes it unfamiliar. It begins with a man leaving his wife and daughter in a city where some sort of danger lurks. He crosses the ocean, … Continue reading →

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Avatar: The Comics

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Teresa

If anyone had told me five years ago that an animated Nickelodeon show would become one of my favorite TV shows ever, I’d have had a hard time believing it. I don’t consider myself too grown-up for animation or anything … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's / YA Lit, Fiction, Graphic Novels / Comics, Speculative Fiction | 2 Comments

Nimona

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Teresa

Whenever the due date for my library books draws near, I take a look at the catalog listing to see if anyone has it on hold. If not, I breathe a sigh of relief and put the book on the … Continue reading →

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March: Books 1 and 2

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Teresa

Growing up in the South in the 1970s and 80s, I learned about the 1960s Civil Rights movement in bits and pieces. It was recent enough to be in a lot of people’s memories, and too recent to be covered … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphic Novels / Comics, History, Memoir, Nonfiction | 6 Comments

The Arrival

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Jenny

The Arrival is a wordless graphic novel by Shaun Tan, an Australian author. Its images are sepia-toned, as if they come from an old photo album. It begins with a man saying goodbye to his wife and children: he is … Continue reading →

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Through the Woods

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Teresa

I love a creepy story, and this book by Emily Carroll offers five of them, all in comics form and all very, very creepy. These stories are short and lavishly illustrated, and I hesitate to tell you much of what … Continue reading →

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