graphic novels

Cartoonist Adrian Tomine presents a graphic novel memoir illustrating the growth of his career, his most cringe-worthy moments, the indignities he has suffered, and his coming to terms with being a cartoonist.

England's King Edward becomes immersed in debauchery and falls under the spell of Jane. Meanwhile, George's life spirals out of control after the death of his wife, and Richard schemes with Buckingham and Catesby to arrest him and rid the palace of his trouble but things turn deadly. Meanwhile, the secret of Richard's body becomes an object of interest to everyone around him.

Presents in graphic form seven of Edgar Allen Poe's horror, humor, and detective works, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Masque of the Read Death.".

Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.

Presents an illustrated memoir of the author's eary life, as she describes key episodes and the foods associated with them, and the life lessons she learned from cooking and eating gourmet meals with her parents and friends.

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

Tells the story of Brian Epstein, the discoverer and manager of the Beatles, in graphic novel format, highlighting his struggle against a society that reviled his homosexuality, Judaism, and Liverpool upbringing.

Recounts in graphic novel format the life of the charismatic Black Muslim leader, from his conversion to the Nation of Islam in prison and his leadership of the group in New York, to his conversion to orthodox Islam and his assassination..

Zeina Abirached, a Lebanese Christian born in 1981 during the hight of the civil war between Christians and Muslims, here has her life recounted by her granddaughter, also named Zeina. Zeina, her little brother, and her parents were used to the bombings, threat of snipers, the dividing wall of Beirut made out of brick and sandbags, and constant danger. When her parents do not return one day from a visit to the other half of the city, Zeina's neighbors kindly take her in and try to make a home for her and her brother.

A graphic adaptation of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" about an ambitious man whose unscrupulous wife urges him to murder in order to seize the throne of Scotland.