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Colfer and Donkin don’t shy away from the cost of these journeys and some children will find the story upsetting. But this is a book for adults too. These stories must be heard.

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Illegal by Eoin Colfer

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Alagbé uses his sparse palette to deliver a potent message about how race is portrayed in Western comics.

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The sentiment rings false from a writer who's testified so fervently that the essence of romance is effervescent sublimity. That quality is missing from this book. Unfortunately, even in marriage, some things shouldn't be shared.

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As someone once said, her great gift is that she can turn paper into flesh. Very few cartoonists are able to convey so wide a range of emotions while also keeping their drawings so fluid, so wild – and she has charm and wit to spare.

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Stories that celebrate storytelling are nothing new, but Out of Nothing shows they can still feel as fresh as a daisy.

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There is much rejoicing at the overflowing classroom coffers—and the goal for Gus is realized. A heartwarming call and response.

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The Lie as a whole begs to be passed on in the same way. Its themes may appear simple, but its emotions linger — even if we've felt them before.

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The Lie And How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

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Furmark makes the most of this narrative tension: at moments, her comic has the flavour of a thriller. But she’s also a wonderfully lyrical cartoonist.

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Something to leave under the tree for that relative who can’t get enough of Ayn Rand, insistent that there are values to cherish other than selfishness.

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Colonial rule left India deeply demoralized, believing itself doomed to “failure upon failure”...A candid and often moving history of a city’s dramatic past and roiling present.

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A worthy introduction that offers a young Anglophone audience entry into a legend of Africa without the annoyance of overtranslation and with refreshingly three-dimensional characters.

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Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior Prince (The African Graphic Novel Series) by Luke Molver

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There's a lot of heart in this volume, so it's unfortunate that it fails, overall, to live up to DeConnick and De Landro's original tales.

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A fly-on-the-wall view of an Egypt few outsiders know and one that, in its insistence on unveiled expression, offers hope for a more democratic future.

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Chute also goes deep into the lives and work of Art Spiegelman (with whom she worked on MetaMaus), Alison Bechdel (whose Fun Home made the leap from graphic novel to Broadway), Matt Groening, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, and so many others. For anyone who wants a crash course in contemporary comics, or wants to teach one, this is your book.

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The book's visual and verbal components combine to make a narrative of definite—if slightly generic—charm while hinting at darker depths under the entertaining surface.

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Intro to psych students will find this a helpful primer, but it is also written to engage and entertain general readers. A quick illumination of a complex field.

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It feels a bit like giving away the store to reveal any more about these narratives. They need to be experienced fresh for their full uncanniness to be felt.

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As Cullen Murphy admits in his warm and graceful memoir, “Cartoon County,” comics creators have long been among the most dimly perceived of celebrities, and when they venture out into society, they are usually sized up as dentists or insurance adjusters ...

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It may be the only way to wind up a story that lurches so unpredictably from the ordinary to the ominous. Forsman knows that lots of teenagers imagine themselves to be figures of classic tragedy.

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It's hard to be idealistic without giving way to preachiness from time to time. Body Music may be a little too sugary, but its sweetness is craveable for good reason.

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