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By Frank Miller

An emperor amasses an army of hundreds of thousands, drawn from two continents, to invade a third continent and conquer a tiny, divided nation. Only a few hundred warriors stand against them. Yet the tiny nation is saved. It sounds like the plot of a preposterous fantasy novel. It is historical fact. In 481–480 B.C., King Xerxes of Persia raised forces in Asia and Africa and invaded Greece with an army so huge that it "drank rivers dry." Then they entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae and encountered 300 determined soldiers from Sparta.

A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge

By Josh Neufeld

A.D. follows six ordinary people from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath.

Akira

By Katsuhiro Otomo
Series Akira

In Neo–Tokyo, built on the former site of Tokyo after World War III, two teenagers are targeted by agencies after they develop paranormal abilities.

All My Friends Are Dead

By Avery Monsen

An illustrated compendium of the humorous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects.

American Vampire Volume 1

By Scott Snyder
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Includes King’s western tale about a sun-powered vampire with rattlesnake fangs + Snyder’s story about a female vampire who is seeking revenge against the European bloodsuckers who tortured and abused her.

American Vampire: Volume 3

By Scott Snyder
Series American Vampire Series
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This volume of the critically-acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE follows the star of AV Volumes 1 and 2, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it?

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography

By Sid Jacobson

Drawing on the archives and expertise of the Anne Frank House, the best-selling authors of 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation cover the short-but-inspiring life of the famed Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp.

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

By Alison Bechdel

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.

Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima

By Keiji Nakazawa

In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima - Gen, his mother, and his baby sister - face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

By Frank Miller

The Dark Knight Returns is set in a dystopian near–future version of Gotham City. A year is never specified, though it has been a full decade since the last reported sighting of Batman, the current American President appears to be Ronald Reagan or someone using his image, and the Cold War is still ongoing. Virtually all superheroes, with the exception of Superman, have been forced into retirement or otherwise driven away by a distrusting populace. Bruce Wayne has voluntarily retired from crime fighting following the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. In the absence of superheroes, criminals run amok, and a gang called the Mutants terrorize Gotham City.

Batman: The Long Halloween

By Jeph Loeb

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, The Long Halloween tells the story of a mysterious killer named Holiday, who murders people on holidays, one each month. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month.

Beats: A Graphic History

By Harvey Pekar

A tour of America's underground literary movement, presented in a graphic tale format, includes coverage of the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Jack Kerouac, Chicago's beatnik bistro, and San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.

Blacksad

By Juan Diaz Canales

Presents three stories in which John Blacksad, private investigator, attempts to find the murderer of an old lover, investigate child abductors, and discover nuclear secrets in the 1950s Red Scare.

Buddha

By Osamu Tezuka
Series Buddha

The life and times of Prince Siddhartha told by the master storyteller Tezuku.

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

By Roz Chast
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, September 28, 2015. 7 PM.

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

 

A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four– color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges.

Cape

By Joe Hill

Marred by an accident that occurred when he was eight years old, an adult Eric uses his childhood cape to take to the sky and seek vengeance on those who wronged him in the past.

Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations

By Jeffrey Brown
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A collection of comics based on the author’s cat, depicting its antics as it eats, plays, purrs and engages in other distinctively feline behaviors.

Cats Are Weird and More Observations

By Jeffrey Brown
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown’s drawings perfectly capture the humor and quirkiness of cats in all their strange and charming glory.

Darth Vader and Son

By Jeffrey Brown

In this comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other – except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith.

Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell

By Sophie Goldstein
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

It’s tough living in the 21st century, when mythical beings not only roam the earth, but camp out on your sofa and raid your refrigerator. Jobs are scarce; angels infest Brooklyn (the demons have taken all the good property in Manhattan) and minor gods bus tables at the local diner. The mortals of New York must balance not only their checkbooks but keep a close eye on their souls’ karmic account.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Philip K. Dick

Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans - clever and most of all dangerous humans.

 

Became the movie: Blade Runner.

Dragon Hoops

By Gene Luen Yang

An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves.

Fables

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables

Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White.

Footnotes in Gaza

By Joe Sacco

Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash–strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident in 1956 that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah––cold–blooded massacre or dreadful mistake––reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy.

From Hell

By Alan Moore

In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By Alison Bechdel

A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

Game of Thrones (Graphic Novels)

By George R.R. Martin
Series A Game of Thrones
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Acclaimed novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson bring George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones to majestic new life.

Get Jiro

By Anthony Bourdain
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

With the chefs of Los Angeles ruling the town like crime lords, sushi chef Jiro, a chef known for decapitating patrons who dare request a California roll, is sought after by both the "Internationalists" and the "Vertical farm" families.

Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi

By Anthony Bourdain

Jiro, born the heir to a Yakuza crime family, never longed to travel the criminal path laid out before him, but instead chose to secretly study the rich culinary history of his homeland, something that would have significant repercussions if discovered by his gangster father.

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

By Roz Chast

An uproarious graphic–novel tribute to Manhattan that reflects on the culture clash between her rural–raised children and herself, sharing zany and occasionally practical advice on subjects ranging from sidewalk gum wads to navigating honeycombed grids.

Hey Kiddo

By Jarrett J Krosoczka

A powerful graphic memoir by the award–winning author of Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute traces the author's unconventional coming of age with a drug–addict mother, an absent father and two lovingly opinionated grandparents.

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

By Sarah Glidden
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“A graphic memoir chronicles the author's Israeli government sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Masada and a non-chaperoned trip into the West Bank (From the Publisher).”

Hyperbole and a Half : Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

By Allie Brosh
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

By Brian Selznick

When twelve–year–old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. The wonderful thing about this book is that it is part graphic novel and part text.

Joker

By Brian Azzarello

After being mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, the Joker isn’t very happy about what has happened to his Gotham City rackets and brutally seeks revenge to retrieve his stolen assets from the Penguin, the Riddler, Two-Face, and Killer Croc.

Kick-Ass 2

By Mark Millar
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When a former ally seeks to become the world's most notorious villain, Hit Girl trains Kick-Ass, while Red Mist gathers a team of super-villains to take them down.

Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos

By Lucy Knisley
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

By Alan Moore
Series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

In 1898, as the glory days of the British Empire were waning, an incredible band of adventurers - including Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, and the Invisible Man - was brought together to save England in its hour of greatest need.

 

Became the movie: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Locke & Key Series

By Joe Hill

The story of Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them…and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.

Locke & Key: Head Games

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Following a shocking death, Kinsey and Tyler Locke turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack’s dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face.

March Trilogy

By John Lewis

A firsthand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his lifechanging meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

Maus: A Survivor's Tale

By Art Speigelman
Series Maus
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying past, and history itself.

My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel

By Derf Backderf
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, October 1, 2018.  7:30 PM

In a graphic novel that was originally self-published, the author offers an account of growing up in the same schools as Jeffrey Dahmer, who went on to become one of the most notorious serial killers and cannibals in U.S. history.

New Kid

By Jerry Craft

Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh–grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy.

Nimona

By Noelle Stevenson

Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren’t the heroes everyone thinks they are.