Graphic Novel Review: Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Are You My Mother? by Alison BechdelSeries: N/APublished by HoughtonMifflin on May 1, 2012Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Graphic Novel, GLBTPages: 290 : Hardback editionSource: Borrowed from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s […]

ARC/Graphic Novel Review: Unfollow, Vol. 1 by Rob Williams

Unfollow, Vol. 1 by Rob Williams and illustrated by Michael DowlingSeries: Unfollow #1-6Published by Vertigo on May 24, 2016Genres: Graphic Novel, Sequential ArtPages: 144 : e-ARC editionSource: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review (via Edelweiss)Add to Goodreads A dying social media mogul leaves his billions to be split evenly between 140 random people–or however many of them […]

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash

Honor Girl by Maggie ThrashSeries: N/APublished by Candlewick Press on September 8, 2015Genres: Young Adult, Graphic Novel, NonfictionPages: 272 : Hardcover editionSource: A review copy was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest reviewAdd to Goodreads All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is […]

Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker

Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed BrubakerSeries: Captain America, Vol. 5 #1-2Published by Marvel on April 14, 2010Genres: Graphic Novel, Comics, SuperheroesPages: 304 : Paperback editionSource: Checked out from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads A midnight call to duty brings Captain America aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Heli-carrier to identify the corpse of his most feared adversary: the Red Skull! The shocking murder […]

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Nimona by Noelle StevensonSeries: N/APublished by Harper Collins on May 12, 2015Genres: Young Adult, Graphic Novel, FantasyPages: 265 : Hardcover editionSource: Checked out from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it “a deadpan epic.” Nemeses! Dragons! […]

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In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen WangSeries: N/APublished by First Second on October 14, 2014Genres: Video Games, Graphic NovelPages: 196 : Paperback editionSource: Borrowed from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It’s a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a […]

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Maus, II: And Here My Trouble’s Began by Art Spiegelman

Maus, II: And Here My Trouble’s Began by Art SpiegelmanSeries: MausPublished by Pantheon in September, 1992Genres: Holocaust, Germany, WWII, Graphic NovelPages: 136 : Paperback editionSource: Borrowed from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman’s Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, […]

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Series Review: Emma (Volume 1-7) by Kaoru Mori

Emma (Volume 1-7) by Kaoru MoriSeries: EmmaPublished by CMX from 2006-2008 (Complete)Genres: Love, Romance, HistoricalPages: Approx. 180-270 : Paperback editionSource: Checked out from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads An upstairs gentleman and a downstairs servant share a secret love. The saga begins. In Victorian England, a young girl named Emma is rescued from a life of destitution and raised to become […]

Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge

Will and Whit by Laura Lee GulledgeSeries: N/APublished by Abrams on May 7, 2013Genres: Comics, Graphic NovelPages: 194 : Paperback editionSource: Checked out from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads Wilhelmina “Will” Huxstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps […]

Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge

Page by Paige by Laura Lee GulledgeSeries: N/APublished by Abrams on May 1, 2011Genres: Comics, Graphic Novel, Romance, Coming of agePages: 192 : Paperback editionSource: Checked out from my local libraryAdd to Goodreads Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she’s having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to […]