If a picture is worth a thousand words, this amazing book is worth billions. Gorgeous pictures illustrate the universal story of a man leaving behind his family to make a better life in a new and strange world. Meeting friends and other immigrants along the way, we learn about struggle and triumph. When his family joins him, the new world truly becomes home. Told solely through images, this book allows you to write your own story into it. A remarkable book destined to become a classic. Go read it. Now. Seriously.
When you’re a teenage vampire working a dead-end job as the nocturnal clerk in a convenience store, life sucks. In more ways than one. And you’re stuck there forever. Because you’re the un-dead. And you don’t even have a girlfriend. And you miss being a vegetarian. And then to top it all off, you fall in love with a mortal goth girl. Twilight’s sarcastic cousin.
Growing up in Czechoslovakia, Peter Sis draws what he is told to draw. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, an “iron curtain” divides the world. Told through diary entries, his original artwork, and his trademark art style that simplifies big themes, Sis takes you behind the iron curtain to a time in recent history which is still being illuminated.
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
Ah, fair maidens, who says comics are just for boys? This quirky graphic novel tells the story Sleeping Beauty, but if that story mated with The Princess Bride and Shrek. Hilarious. I mean, what’s funnier than a bald evil witch? When the curse finally lifts, the castle becomes a refuge for people in need, and then the real fun begins.
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