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Mandy's Favorite Graphic Novels
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Click on any title or cover to find the item in the SWAN Online Catalog.
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Fun Home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
by Stephen Collins
The fastidious life of clean-shaven Dave is upended on a fateful day when he grows an unstoppable, impressive beard, in a darkly comic, award-winning meditation on life, death and what it means to be different.
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
by Ann Marie Fleming
Written in the form of a graphic novel, a full-color biography of China's greatest magician by his great-granddaughter chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Long Tack Sam, from his youth in China's Shangdung province to his diverse roles as an acrobat, magician, comic, impresario, restaurateur, theater owner, world traveler, and more.
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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth : a graphic novel
by Isabel Greenberg
The lives and adventures of the race of people who lived on Early Earth before human history began is illustrated in a series of interconnected tales and fables in this graphic novel from an award-winning writer and artist.
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An Age of License
by Lucy Knisley
Written during a European book tour promoting her work, an acclaimed cartoonist depicts in drawings and words her new experiences, romantic encounters and the cute cats she met as she visited historic cities across the continent.
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Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli
Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.
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Daytripper
by Fábio Moon
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die.
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The Impostor's Daughter : a true memoir
by Laurie Sandell
Describes the author's youth as the daughter of a man who shared fantastical tales about his privileged Buenos Aires youth, Vietnam heroism, and celebrity friendships; her efforts to emulate her father; and her astonishment upon learning that her father fabricated many of his experiences.
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Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
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Sin Titulo
by Cameron Stewart
When Alex Mackay finds a photograph of his dead grandfather with an alluring, mysterious young woman, Alex's begins an investigation into the old man's apparent double life that leads him into a strange and dangerous world.
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Carnet de Voyage
by Craig Thompson
A visual diary and travel sketchbook chronicles two months of the artist's wanderings through Africa and Europe.
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A Year in Japan
by Kate T. Williamson
Colorful impressions of a young woman's extended visit in Kyoto, Japan.
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