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Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.

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October 30th, 2009 Graphic Novels

Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Lauren

It's difficult to know quite what to make of Graphic Witness. As soon as you hold it, you know you have here an impossibly important book. It seems at once seminal and historic, a graphic witness, as the title indicates, of the very roots of the graphic novel. Here we have four important stories told in woodcut and without words, collected for us by George A. Walker, himself an...

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September 24th, 2009 Graphic Novels

Monsters

Remember that inventory we did last year, of unflattering moments in autobiographical comics? The entirety of Ken Dahl’s stomach-churning book Monsters (Secret Acres) could have fit nicely into that list. It’s a difficult, punishing read, just as it was clearly a difficult, punishing experience for Dahl, but his evocation of pain, horror, and self-loathing is nonetheless masterful. Da...

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May 1st, 2009 Graphic Novels

Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology

Coming of age, as it were, during the days of World War II, comic books have not always presented progressive models of the Asian American experience. In fact, they could be downright racist in their heyday back then. And while much has changed since then, one thing that hasn't is the blatant underrepresentation of Asian characters in comic books. Enter Secret Identities: The Asian American...

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January 8th, 2009 Graphic Novels

Wizzywig Volume 2: Hacker

Communication technology has not always been ubiquitous in the way it is today, yet within any group that has had access to the latest gadgets, there has always been a subset that seeks to fully fathom such tech and make it work in new and unexpected and occasionally illegal ways. Writer/artist Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig" series of graphic novels, named for a computer software acronym meaning "What...

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February 1st, 2008 Graphic Novels

Shooting War

One of the grim consolations of political fiction is its ability to show us how things can always get worse, and soon, and in sadly believable ways. That’s part of the appeal of the new graphic novel Shooting War, written by the freelance reporter and TV producer Anthony Lappe and drawn by the online comics pioneer Dan Goldman.Set in 2011, the book is one of the first science fiction...

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