Graphic Novels & Comics

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"Ying's adaptation is faithful to the original book, keeping the same emotional honesty and humor that have delighted Danziger's readers for decades."

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“Oberländer’s underlying message of female bodies striving to conform to spaces too narrow to contain them is powerful . . .”

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“offers readers the complicated, rich dimensions of life in and outside of Iran and the wide diversity of people daring to fight for freedom . . .”

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“This odyssey is for King fans everywhere, a richly drawn and written story that draws the reader deeper and deeper into King’s fevered imagination . . .”

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"the portrait of an artist as a young woman."

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What is clear from Weil’s book is that history is not just a result of impersonal forces acting upon human decisions.

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"As Chinatowns all over the country become gentrified and disappear, Denison Avenue provides an important reminder of what is being lost."

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Sherlock Holmes—The Final Problem in the hands of Hannes Binder is a must for any collection of Baker Street investigations, opening new awareness of the impact of this classic in

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Born and raised in poverty on a plantation in Martinique, Stephanie St. Clair (Queenie) eventually arrives in New York. In the 1930s; she makes a name for herself as a racketeer and bootlegger.

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“A master of visual and narrative pacing . . . the book does what great books should do: it stays with the reader long after the last pages are turned.”

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We’re far enough into the limbo stage of the Covid-19 pandemic (it’s over, it’s not over, it’s over, it’s not over) to have started welcoming the first wave of pandemic-inspired literature, such as

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“crisp, clear, and evocative . . . a supernatural thriller that takes you where you least expect to go.”

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“a map for others on the power of storytelling . . . writing and drawing her way to liberation”

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“. . . both fantastical and touchingly human.”

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“Barry has a real genius for getting to the reality of middle-school kids . . . gritty, real, and deeply funny.”

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“Packed with emotional power.”

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“An exquisitely painful portrait of loneliness, perfectly pitched for the current time of pandemic isolation.”

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What do you do when the world refuses to look at you, to really see you? When, still, your life is expendable if the smallest excuse for taking it can be conjured?

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“No detail escapes Dauber. . . . A master storyteller . . .”

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"Our research has proved that the chicken came not just before the egg, but before anything else in the known universe."

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“The psychedelic form, as well as the blatant splashes of color, make this graphic novel a feast for the eyes, while some of its themes will be recognizable to anyone familiar with Latin Am

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“Exquisite pacing . . . a masterful artist.”

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a stunning tour-de-force . . . that will surely set a new benchmark for graphic novels and what they can achieve in a literary context.”

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