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Sis, Peter.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron
Curtain. The author's account of growing up under Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia. |
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Giffen, Keith.
Blue Beetle: Shell-Shocked (Book One) and
Blue Beetle: Road Trip (Book
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Abadzis, Nick.
Laika The fictionalized story of the first canine cosmonaut. |
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Fleming, Ann Marie.
Magical Life of Long Tack Sam |
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Azuma, Kiyohiko.
Yotsuba&! Follow the adventures of Yotsuba, a young girl with (possibly) unusual origins. |
| Clowes, Daniel.
Ghost World The basis for the hit movie, Ghost World is the story of two best friends, Enid and Becky, as they struggle to figure out life after high school. One of the most fully realized accounts of teenage girl friendship around, this story is told with beautifully detailed pictures and precise dialog. |
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Kubert, Joe.
Fax From Sarajevo |
| Martinet, Jeanne.
Truer than True Romance Taking the original artwork from romance comics of the 1950's, Martinet retells these stories often with irreverent and hilarious twists. |
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Moore, Alan & Dave Gibbons.
Watchmen Watchmen is set in a world where superheroes were outlawed in 1977 and forced into retirement. It's eight years later and it appears that someone is trying to kill the "masks," which leads some of them to come out of hiding to investigate. This influential graphic novel has great detail into the background of the characters and stories. |
| Sacco, Joe.
Safe Area Gorazde During the Bosnian War, the United Nations made "safe areas" out of Muslim territories surrounded by threatening Bosnian Serb forces. These were often the most dangerous places in Bosnia. Gorazde was such a place and this is the story of its people. |
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Speigelman, Art.
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Speigelman, Art. Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, this harrowing memoir tells the story of the author's father's struggle to survive concentration camps during World War II and of his attempts to build a life in America after the war. |
| Talbot, Brian.
The Tale of One Bad Rat This is the story of Helen, a British teenager, on the run from her sexually abusive father. Inspired by Beatrix Potter, this title is a sensitive story told with great artwork. |
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Tezuka, Osamu.
Adolf:
A Tale of the Twentieth Century The first volume of a five volume historical novel, Adolf is the tale of three people named Adolf during World War II: the infamous dictator, a half Aryan/half Japanese man and a Jew living in Japan. Through their stories, Tezuka examines the problems of racism, fascism and personal identity. |
| Tomine, Adrian.
32 Stories: the Complete Optic Nerve This semi-autobiographical collection of short stories illustrates Tomine's uncanny ability to catch his subjects at their most vulnerable. |
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Ware, Chris.
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth This book collects the Jimmy Corrigan stories from a 7-year period. Ware uses a minutely detailed style and amazing sense of design to tell the story of Corrigan as he exerts his independence from an over-bearing mother and attempts to build a relationship with his long-absent father and stepsister. |
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