Neat Stuff: Graphic Novels
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Cliff Landis
We’ve added Shaun Tan’s award-winning The Arrival , a wordless graphic novel capturing the immigrant experience. Gilbert Hernandez’ Sloth follows three disillusioned high school students who live through music, urban legends and sex. Mike Carey’s Re-Gifters tells about a Korean American teenager who, blinded by romance, almost gives up her chance to compete in a martial arts competition. In R. Kikuo Johnson’s Night Fisher a high school senior is drawn into Maui’s criminal underworld. And in Runaways six teens find out their parents are all super-villains! We’ve all been there . . .
I’d also like to mention Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn. It’s a graphic novel about a pride of lions from the Baghdad zoo during the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq. It offers a very unique take on the whole situation and is also incredibly well drawn.
Thank you for the great resource. I look forward to reading R. Night Fisher by Kikuo Johnson