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ACCIDENTAL ARTISTS by Laura When art mimics life the results are fascinating! And when the life lived takes a unique path, the results are brilliant. It has occurred to me that, although many of the author/artists that I love began their artistic training...
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, father of GEKIGA Early comics (or manga) in Japan were generally drawn and written for children. So, in the late 1950s and 60s, the early readers of the format were growning-up and getting ready for something new. What they found was...
The 2009 Top Graphic Novels by Laura It’s the end of the year and time to catch up on the great graphic novels from 2009! I’m often stumped choosing new graphic novels to read – which is why I look forward to Publishers Weekly’s yearly list . I read through...
For anyone looking for a fresh approach to genre and age-group conventions in literature, the beloved Neil Gaiman offers an abundance of great choices. He is recently most famed for the creepy J Fiction novel-turned-animated film Coraline and the2008...
If you have never read a Graphic novel, you’re not alone, but I have discovered there is something in the Graphix collection for almost everyone. One that I could not put down is Persepolis : [the story of a childhood] by Satrapi, Marjane, 1969- . Released...
Graphic novels have been around for a long time and have many devoted readers. In fact, graphic novels have their own awards, named after Will Eisner, who coined the name “graphic novel” to identity a “longer work, not published as a pamphlet, with greater...