Archive for the 'Comics & Graphic Novels' Category

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Kinney’s popular Web comic, which began in 2004, makes its way to print as a laugh-out-loud “novel in cartoons,” adapted from the series. Middle school student Greg Heffley takes readers through an academic year’s worth of drama. Greg’s mother forces him to keep [...]

Asterios Polyp (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. For decades, Mazzucchelli has been a master without a masterpiece. Now he has one. His long-awaited graphic novel is a huge, knotty marvel, the comics equivalent of a Pynchon or Gaddis novel, and radically different from anything he’s done before. Asterios Polyp, its [...]

The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Review
“A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life… That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable.”–TimeFrom the Trade Paperback [...]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
The third book in this genre-busting series is certain to enlarge Kinney’s presence on the bestseller lists, where the previous titles have taken up residence for the past two years. Kinney’s spot-on humor and winning formula of deadpan text set against cartoons are back in [...]

Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description–the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. [...]

Watchmen (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics’ favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller’s [...]

Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Tourists of the world unite! If you’ve ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown’s secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a [...]