comic books, strips, etc

It was 1933, four long years after Wall Street crashed and took the rest of the world with it, and the Great Depression was just getting started. And so was the Goblin. A master at turning hopelessness into a commodity, the corrupt mob bossled a colorful gang of circus sideshow freaks--including the cannibalistic Vulture--in a corrupt stranglehold on the city. Peter Parker came of age during this time of struggle and hardship. Raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, two stemwinding Socialists commited to positive change for the people, Peter would have been a boyis beacon of optimism in any other era. But in this world of noir, he was an embittered angry young man in search of justice. And then along came a s[pider After a fated meeting with a mystical arachnid and its life-changing bite, he may have just inherited the force to honor the phrase, "If those in power can't be trusted, it's the responsibility of the people to remove them"--dust jacket back cover.

A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gora?de, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.

A graphic novel for proficient readers that presents the story of a Greek athlete who receives a warning from Athene that he must not compete in the Olympic Games.

Methen, a young boy in ancient Egypt, helps a servant girl save herself from being forced into marriage to Kenamun, the aging chief embalmer, by exposing the man's grave robbing activities. Presented in graphic form.

In Philadelphia, in 1777, fourteen-year-old Quaker John Darragh aids the American army by carrying coded messages, hidden by his mother in the buttons on his coat, to his older brother Charles in George Washington's camp.

One stormy night, a sinister little man arrives in the little Gaulish village, and Prolix says he's a soothsayer and the villagers believe everything he says, but Asterix suspects otherwise.

A graphic novel describing the short life of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others hid from the Nazis until a Dutch informer revealed the whereabouts of their secret annex.

Presents a short history of the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 1607 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the settlers' encounters with Native Americans and their struggles to maintain a permanent settlement in the New World.

A graphic novel that depicts Thomas Paine and his experience drafting "Common Sense." Includes a glossary.

Documents the two months French animator, Guy Delisle spent overseeing cartoon production in North Korea, where he records everything from the statues and portraits of dictators Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to the ordinary citizens of the country.