A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
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Blankets
By Thompson, Craig
Named one of Time's top 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time!"...A rarity: a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like. ...achingly beautiful." - Time magazineWrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work from Craig Thompson.At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first.
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Persepolis
By Satrapi, Marjane
Toute petite, Marjane voulait tre prophte. Elle se disait qu'elle pourrait ainsi soigner le mal de genoux de sa grand-mre. En 1979, l'anne de ses dix ans et de la rvolution iranienne, elle a un peu oubli Dieu. Elle s'est mise manifester dans le jardin de ses parents en criant " bas le roi !". L, elle s'imaginait plutt en Che Guevara. Il faut dire qu' l'poque, son livre prfr s'appelait Le Matrialisme dialectique. Marjane trouvait d'ailleurs que Marx et Dieu se ressemblaient. Marx tait juste un peu plus fris, voil tout. Aprs, la vie a continu, mais en beaucoup moins drle. La rvolution s'est un peu emballe. Et la guerre contre l'Irak est arrive ... Dans Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi raconte son enfance sur fond d'histoire de son pays, l'Iran. C'est un rcit drle et triste la fois, parfois cocasse, souvent touchant. Mais toujours passionnant. C'est aussi un petit vnement : il s'agit de la toute premire bande dessine iranienne de l'Histoire ... --Gilbert Jacques
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My Father Bleeds History
By Spiegelman, Art
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
Fun Home
By Bechdel, Alison
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Blankets
By Thompson, Craig
Named one of Time's top 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time!"...A rarity: a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like. ...achingly beautiful." - Time magazineWrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work from Craig Thompson.At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first.
Persepolis
By Satrapi, Marjane
Toute petite, Marjane voulait tre prophte. Elle se disait qu'elle pourrait ainsi soigner le mal de genoux de sa grand-mre. En 1979, l'anne de ses dix ans et de la rvolution iranienne, elle a un peu oubli Dieu. Elle s'est mise manifester dans le jardin de ses parents en criant " bas le roi !". L, elle s'imaginait plutt en Che Guevara. Il faut dire qu' l'poque, son livre prfr s'appelait Le Matrialisme dialectique. Marjane trouvait d'ailleurs que Marx et Dieu se ressemblaient. Marx tait juste un peu plus fris, voil tout. Aprs, la vie a continu, mais en beaucoup moins drle. La rvolution s'est un peu emballe. Et la guerre contre l'Irak est arrive ... Dans Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi raconte son enfance sur fond d'histoire de son pays, l'Iran. C'est un rcit drle et triste la fois, parfois cocasse, souvent touchant. Mais toujours passionnant. C'est aussi un petit vnement : il s'agit de la toute premire bande dessine iranienne de l'Histoire ... --Gilbert Jacques
My Father Bleeds History
By Spiegelman, Art
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.