Posted in Books | October 2, 2013
Batman: Year One (1987)Written by Frank Miller, illustrated by David MazzucchelliThis wonderful exploration of one of the great origin myths of comics is Frank Miller at his best. Batman is shown to be fallible and fumbling. He needs to find his way and at first he stumbles.This…
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Posted in Teens | August 28, 2013
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)By Marjane Satrapi –Far superior to the movie and second volume which followed it, this beautiful graphic memoir is a spare, sometimes stark remembrance of a girlhood in Iran under the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s monochrome, heavy…
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Posted in Teens | August 21, 2013
Welcome to Graphic Classics! This new regular series will focus on some of the key works of graphic literature that are available on the shelves at Queens Library.Libraries have been buying classics in literature for generations, and that includes graphic novels.These are not…
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