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Book Review: It’s a Cat’s Life — “Penny”

Penny, whose many moods are sensitively drawn in this softly colored volume, is, perhaps like all cats, a philosopher.

By: Clea Simon Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Chronicle Books, graphic novel, Karl Stevens, Penny

Book Review: Superior Graphic Novels About Architecture

What do graphic novels about architecture bring to our understanding of the urban experience? They suggest that buildings can be like our memories — they hide as much as they show.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Asterios Polyp, David Mazzcchuelli, graphic novel, Mark Favermann, Olivier Balez, Pierre Christin, Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City, The Structure Is Rotten Comrade, Viken Berberian, Yann Kebbi

Book Review: Anne Frank’s Diary — The Graphic Version

I’m impressed with the new adaptation and depressed that it’s considered necessary.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, Ari-Folman, David Polansky, graphic novel, Helen Epstein

Book Review: “The Customer Is Always Wrong” – Counterculture Behind the Counter

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drawn & Quarterly, graphic novel, Milo Miles, Mimi Pond, Over Easy, The Customer is Always Wrong

Book Review: Scott McCloud’s “The Sculptor” — A Life in His Hands

A graphic novel about the death of art and the art of death

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: graphic novel, Milo Miles, Scott McCloud, The Sculptor, Zot!

Graphic Novel Review: No One Wins — Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints”

Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs. evil slugfest.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged: Boxers & Saints, Gene Yang, graphic novel, Lark Pien, Pat Tong

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