Graphic Novels Recent Picks
September 2010
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Scalped. [4]. The gravel in your guts / Jason Aaron, writer ; Davide Furno, R.M. Guera, artists.
"Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in search of something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" -- short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime. In this volume, Dash makes a dark and fateful decision that will forever affect his future on the reservation as he learns more secrets from his former girlfriend's past." (Amazon)
Other lives / Peter Bagge.
"Meet three certified geeks: A self-loathing journalist who has a seemingly normal girlfriend, a conspiracy theorist who still lives with his mother and an unemployed gamer who lives in his car. These strangely likeable misfits find that dark personal secrets can sometimes be a virtue. Other Lives explores people’s identities, both real and created, and how the two become confused and conflated, particularly through the use of the Internet and role-playing games." (Amazon)
Wasteland : the apocalyptic edition. Anthony Johnston, Christopher Mitten.
"A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet, small, mostly illiterate and struggling for survival. Not all the cities that survived the Big Wet are like Providens, some are like Newbegin, burgeoning metropolises that combine pieces of past societies with the new status quo. When a stranger named Michael enters Providens, people wonder will this quiet man lead them to the better world of Newbegin or shatter what little order they have?" (Amazon)
Twilight : the graphic novel. Volume 1 / Stephenie Meyer ; art and adaptation by Young Kim.
"When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret." (Amazon)
You'll never know. Book 1, A good and decent man / by C. Tyler.
"This is the story of the 50-something author's relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood. The title refers not only to the name of her parents' courtship song from that era, but also to the many challenges the author encountered in uncovering the difficult and painful truths about her dad's service, challenges exacerbated by her own tumultuous family life." (Amazon)
City of glass / Paul Auster ; adaption by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli ; new introduction by Art Spiegelman.
"In Auster's groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork, an unknown voice on the telephone is begging a mystery writer for help, drawing him into a world far stranger than any he has ever created in print." (Syndetics summary)
What it is / by Lynda Barry.
"Though she has drawn the weekly Ernie Pook's Comeek and other alternative comics for nigh-on two decades, Barry still manages to surprise and delight. Take this hard-to-categorize book, an ambitious work that combines ink and watercolor drawings, collage, and handwritten and typeset text to explore the creative process by posing open-ended questions ( What is an image? What is a memory? ), and autobiographical passages about Barry's harsh, lonely youth and creative struggles. A freewheeling Activity Book follows, proceeding in the same lively fashion by drawing on exercises from the creativity workshops Barry holds around the country and inviting readers to join in the fun of unleashing their imaginations. Although such content is a departure from the usual for Barry, her distinctive style, with its vividly messy expressiveness, remains a constant. Barry's legions of fans will appreciate the insight she provides into her work, but her entertaining, accessible approach to weighty philosophical matters deserves a still larger audience. Drawn and Quarterly, this book's publisher, plans to bring the Ernie Pook strips back into print good news for us all.--Flagg, Gordon Copyright 2008 Booklist" (Booklist)
Mercury / Hope Larson.
"The winner of the 2007 Eisner Award weaves together history, romance, and magical realism in this graphic novel of how the past haunts a teenage girl's present. Young adult." (Syndetics summary)
The revenant. [Volume 1] / written by Rob M. Worley ; artwork by Mat Santolouco ; created and story by Shannon Eric Denton & Keith Giff.
"The bad men of Sapphire City have forgotten what it means to be afraid, rising to power by ruthlessly cutting down the innocent. Now, on the eve of the city's Day of the Dead celebration, one long thought buried has returned ...a ghoulish gunslinger called The Revenant!" (Syndetics summary)
Syncopated : an anthology of nonfiction picto-essays / edited by Brendan Burford.
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