Graphic Novels & Manga

The Professor’s Daughter by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert

August 28, 2007

Rating: Book Description: Lillian is the daughter of an eminent Egyptologist. Seeking relief from the stifling propriety of her daily life, she invites Pharaoh Imhotep IV, a dashing mummy from her father’s collection, to escort her on a walk. As they stroll through Victorian London, arm in arm, they find themselves falling in love. Their [...]

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FAKE Vol. 5 by Sanami Matoh

May 14, 2007

Rating: Book Description: Meet Ryo and Dee, two New York City cops with an attraction for action – and each other! Ryo is on the biggest case of his life as he and Dee trail the cold-blooded killer that murdered Ryo’s parents. With a little help from Diana Spacey, FBI agent extraordinaire, they soon catch [...]

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Blankets by Craig Thompson

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: This sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author’s rigidly fundamentalist Christian upbringing, along with the trepidation of growing into maturity. Skinny, naive and spiritually vulnerable, Thompson and his younger brother manage to survive their parents’ overbearing discipline (the brothers are sometimes forced to sleep in the cubby-hole, [...]

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