In one of the most eagerly-anticipated graphic novels of 2012, Soldier's Heart concludes the story of Carol Tyler and her delving into her father's war experiences in a way that is both surprising and devastating -- and rather than trying to summarize this episode and thus possibly spoil it for readers, we prefer to simply offer a selection of comments on the first two installments of this autobiographical masterpiece.

Publishers Weekly: "(Starred Review) In the first volume of Tyler's planned trilogy of graphic memoirs, she dug into the eruptive, violent memories of...
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GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family's history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past--and to focus on their children's future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn thei...
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of...
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Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq...
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In the Floyd Archives is a cartoon novel (with footnot
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Mother May I? is the sequel to the comic In the Floyd Arch
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