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Fun home : a family tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Stonewall Book Award * Double finalist for...
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American born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Paper Book
Original Series Now Available on Disney+ A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to...
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V for vendetta
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
The graphic novel that inspired the hit Warner Bros. motion picture from the Wachowskis, the directors of THE MATRIX films and SPEED RACER. In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who...
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A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation
Zinn, Howard
Paper Book
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980,A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become...
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This place : 150 years retold
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Paper Book
"This Place is the graphic novel I've waited for my whole life, and the graphic novel Canada has needed for 150 years." --Jesse Wente, broadcaster and film critic Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology....
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Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a...
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L'Arabe du futur
Sattouf, Riad
Paper Book
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators--Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of...
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Graphic subjects : critical essays on autobiography and graphic novels
Chaney, Michael A.
Paper Book
Some of the most noteworthy graphic novels and comic books of recent years have been entirely autobiographical. In Graphic Subjects, Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels, including such critically...
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The Arab of the future : a graphic memoir : a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984)
Sattouf, Riad
Paper Book
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators--Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of...
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Teaching the graphic novel
Tabachnick, Stephen Ely.
Paper Book
Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level. Among the subjects addressed are ...
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Graphic women : life narrative and contemporary comics
Chute, Hillary L.
Paper Book
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her...
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Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics
Aldama, Frederick Luis
Paper Book
Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award Winner for Best Scholarly/Academic Work Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic...
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Watchmen
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
HUGO AWARD WINNER | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an alternate America, a murder mystery evolves into an ominous, planet-wide conspiracy in a world where superheroes shifted the course of history as we know it The paperback edition of the...
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100 an?os de TBO : la revista que dio nombre a los tebeos
Guiral, Antoni
Paper Book
En marzo de 2017 se cumplen 100 años de la aparición de TBO, la revista de historietas que dio nombre a todas las publicaciones de historietas. En TBO colaboraron algunos de los más destacados ilustradores e historietistas españoles, y en sus páginas se publicaron series tan populares como "Los...
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Louis Riel : a comic-strip biography
Brown, Chester
Paper Book
"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Time Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best...
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