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Blankets 128 reviews
Craig Thompson
Top Shelf Productions, 2003
A coming of age story sure to tug on your heartstrings.
+ Great read to share.
+ A Beautiful Book Full of Wonder and Truths
+ Nice Coming of Age Story
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American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar 12 reviews
Harvey Pekar
Ballantine Books, 2003
"Who IS Harvey Pekar?"
+ A Slice of Life
+ A Humdrum Life Writ Large
+ the best pekar collection
+ Splendid glimpse into the male mind in a comic book format
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Fax From Sarajevo 14 reviews
Joe Kubert
Dark Horse, 1998
Society Unraveled
+ Kubert's most relevant (anti-)war book yet.
I heard about this book when it first came out and I simply had to check it out. Why would a well-known artist like Joe Kubert abandon the hum-drum of fictional comics to produce a full-length journalistic book...? How could he expect it to even sell? When the Cranberries wrote a song about ...
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Torso14 reviews
Marc Andreyko
Image Comics, 2001
My first Bendis, Won't be my Last!
+ 1930s Serial Killer Stalks Cleveland
+ Very Good. Well Paced and Reads Likea A Novel
I've heard good things about Brian Michael Bendis and finally got around to reading one of his works. Torso is a graphic novel that tells the true-crime story of a 1930s serial killer at work in Cleveland, Ohio, who leaves mutilated bodies around town with feet, hands and heads removed. At the ...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood171 reviews
Pantheon, 2003
A story without the confines of traditional boundaries
+ Brave New Girl
+ Fresh perspective
+ Awesome Experience
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-199524 reviews
Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens
Fantagraphics Books, 2002
The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s
+ Most insightful book on everyday life during the Bosnian War yet
+ Great read, very unique look at life in a war zone
I just finished reading this brilliant work. I was in Eastern Europe in 1991-1993 and saw the refugees coming out of Bosnia. I followed the story as close as I could, even visting a refugee camp. But Sacco's illustrations put me on the ground in the supposed safe zones. The brutality of the ...
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Comic Books As History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Studies in ...2 reviews
Joseph Witek
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1990
Insightful, Serious,...and Entertaining
+ A classic
As one of the artists mentioned briefly in Witek's book, I want to let readers know that Witek's analysis of my splash page for the story "May 4-5, 1970" in American Splendor #1 (1976, Harvey Pekar) is a thoughtful and accurate examination of what I was trying to accomplish. At that time, I had ...
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Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust1 review
University Alabama Press, 2003
Great Reading on Maus
This book contains a wide varitey of differing theory surrounding Maus. It's a great book, and it's great to use in research surrounding the novel.
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From Hell - New Cover Edition95 reviews
Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Top Shelf Productions, 2000
A masterpiece! What did you expect me to say?
+ Alan Moore's most complex, challenging, and inventive work
+ Jack the Ripper's story in a comic book
+ A tour de force exposition of Victorian England and a fanciful take on the Ripper
+ Graphic SF Reader
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Comanche Moon3 reviews
Jack Jackson
Reed Press, 2003
Accurate graphic novel format biography of Quanah Parker
+ Exceptional
+ The Last Days Of A Great People
Historically accurate biography of Quanah Parker, last Commanche to live free on the LLana Estacata of Texas. Also bio information about his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a European girl captured and raised by Commanches as their own, later taken back by her white family by force after she had ...
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed189 reviews
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1993
Yes.
+ For any who doubt what graphic fiction can do, this is the revelation.
+ Brilliant
+ Important Educational Information with Range, Good Creativity and Comic-Style Art
+ Masterpiece!
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Torso14 reviews
Marc Andreyko
Image Comics, 2001
My first Bendis, Won't be my Last!
+ 1930s Serial Killer Stalks Cleveland
+ Very Good. Well Paced and Reads Likea A Novel
I've heard good things about Brian Michael Bendis and finally got around to reading one of his works. Torso is a graphic novel that tells the true-crime story of a 1930s serial killer at work in Cleveland, Ohio, who leaves mutilated bodies around town with feet, hands and heads removed. At the ...
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From Hell - New Cover Edition95 reviews
Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Top Shelf Productions, 2000
A masterpiece! What did you expect me to say?
+ Alan Moore's most complex, challenging, and inventive work
+ Jack the Ripper's story in a comic book
+ A tour de force exposition of Victorian England and a fanciful take on the Ripper
+ Graphic SF Reader
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Blankets128 reviews
Craig Thompson
Top Shelf Productions, 2003
A coming of age story sure to tug on your heartstrings.
+ Great read to share.
+ A Beautiful Book Full of Wonder and Truths
+ Nice Coming of Age Story
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Comanche Moon3 reviews
Jack Jackson
Reed Press, 2003
Accurate graphic novel format biography of Quanah Parker
+ Exceptional
+ The Last Days Of A Great People
Historically accurate biography of Quanah Parker, last Commanche to live free on the LLana Estacata of Texas. Also bio information about his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a European girl captured and raised by Commanches as their own, later taken back by her white family by force after she had ...
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Comic Books As History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Studies in ...2 reviews
Joseph Witek
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1990
Insightful, Serious,...and Entertaining
+ A classic
As one of the artists mentioned briefly in Witek's book, I want to let readers know that Witek's analysis of my splash page for the story "May 4-5, 1970" in American Splendor #1 (1976, Harvey Pekar) is a thoughtful and accurate examination of what I was trying to accomplish. At that time, I had ...
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Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust1 review
University Alabama Press, 2003
Great Reading on Maus
This book contains a wide varitey of differing theory surrounding Maus. It's a great book, and it's great to use in research surrounding the novel.
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed189 reviews
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1993
Yes.
+ For any who doubt what graphic fiction can do, this is the revelation.
+ Brilliant
+ Important Educational Information with Range, Good Creativity and Comic-Style Art
+ Masterpiece!
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood171 reviews
Pantheon, 2003
A story without the confines of traditional boundaries
+ Brave New Girl
+ Fresh perspective
+ Awesome Experience
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-199524 reviews
Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens
Fantagraphics Books, 2002
The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s
+ Most insightful book on everyday life during the Bosnian War yet
+ Great read, very unique look at life in a war zone
I just finished reading this brilliant work. I was in Eastern Europe in 1991-1993 and saw the refugees coming out of Bosnia. I followed the story as close as I could, even visting a refugee camp. But Sacco's illustrations put me on the ground in the supposed safe zones. The brutality of the ...
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