9
Mar
2010
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
It’s really no wonder that this was shortlisted for the National Book Award (Young People’s category) and won the Printz award. It’s one of those highly literary stories that trancscends the young adult or genre or the graphic novel genre. In fact, I think it may be enhanced by them.
5
Mar
2010
The Sandman: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Even though I’d just read the first of the Sandman graphic novels a week ago, I appreciated the summary in the beginning of Volume 2. Instead of really refreshing things for me, it served more to better my understanding.
2
Mar
2010
The Unwritten Vol 1 by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
After reading two great reviews of The Unwritten (first by my boss on Slog, and then by Nymeth–both of whose judgement I completely trust regarding graphic novels), I knew that I wanted to read this.
26
Feb
2010
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
I didn’t know much about Neil Gaiman’s much acclaimed Sandman series before taking this out of the library, except that it is much acclaimed and other comic book characters make appearances, but since I know very little about comics, that wasn’t much help. Did that stop me from loving it? Hells to the Nos.
11
Feb
2010
Manga Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare & Kate Brown
What fools these Manga be!
7
Feb
2010
Spike: After the Fall by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru
Poor, poor Spike. He gets a made a vampire, gets dumped by his sire after more than 100 years of love and mayhem, falls in love with a slayer, gets a chip put in his brain by the government, gets a soul, gets the chip out, dies in the Hellmouth, gets brought back to Wolfram & Hart but is incorporeal, gets all corporealized, saves the world (again), and lands, with the rest of L.A., in Hell.
1
Jun
2009
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
I remember my sister having the first one over fifteen years ago. She was still living at home and going to college, which would make me… Let’s say 8. I wanted to look at them because they were cartoons, and she explained to me that they were about the Holocaust. I tried to read them anyways, but soon grew bored.
14
May
2009
Persepolis 1 & 2 by by Marjane Satrapi
Of course, now you can buy these books as The Complete Persepolis, thereby saving about five bucks, but I have them as the picture shows. They are two different books, based on two different parts of the author’s life.
