LibraryAware February 2015

Forsyth County Public Library is growing our collection of graphic novels that appeal to adults. We already have some classics and hidden gems in our collection and we're committed to adding new material. Plus, we have the resources of our state-wide NC Cardinal Consortium to expand your choices. This newsletter issue highlights titles that are brand new to the library collection, several Eisner award winning-titles from 2014, and a classic Jeff Lemire series.

We can use your help. If you're an avid graphic novel reader, and there are titles you'd like to see in our collection, please let us know. We want to offer what you want to read, so please send your recommendations to Ask Your Librarian.

New and Coming Soon

Hugh Howey's wool : The Graphic Novel Omnibus
by Justin Gray

Presents a graphic-novel version of the New York Times best-selling dystopian story—in which man lives in an enclosed environment, and those who dare to express the desire to explored the dangerous outside world are forced out into it—with illustrations by a Hugo Award-nominated artist.

About the book

The Best American Comics 2014
by Scott McCloud

An award-winning artist and author hand-picked this collection of the best graphic pieces from the past year, culling his selections from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics and the Web.

Book Contents at BleedingCool

Seconds
by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Published to coincide with San Diego Comic-Con 2014, a highly anticipated standalone graphic novel by the creator of the best-selling Scott Pilgrim series follows the experience of a young restaurant owner who is given a magical second chance to correct past mistakes.

Preview at Random House

Moonhead and the Music Machine
by Andrew Rae

With the exception of having a moon for a head, Joey is a normal high school student, with an incredible imagination and deep desire to be the world's greatest musician

Trillium
by Jeff Lemire

Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM! It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled "Lost Temple of the Incas," an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn't just a love story, it's the LAST love story ever told. Collects TRILLIUM #1-8.

Review at The Spire

Here
by Richard McGuire

An innovative graphic novel presents the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.

NPR review

Eisner Award 2014 Selections

The Property
by Rutu Modan

Winner of Best Graphic Album-New. After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War.

Author interview at Comic Book Resources

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
by Vivek J. Tiwary

Winner of the Best Reality-Based Work. Tells the story of Brian Epstein, the discoverer and manager of the Beatles, in graphic novel format that also includes memorabilia, sketches, and alternate covers, highlighting his struggle against a society that reviled his homosexuality, Judaism, and Liverpool upbringing.

Webpage for the book

Love and Rockets: New Stories. No. 6
by Gilbert Hernandez

Winner of 2014's Best Writer/Artist award. A collection of Love and Rocket tales finds Maria's kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids create rival movie adaptations of her life, while Tonta tries to figure out how she knows her swim coach.

More about Love and Rockets at Fantagraphics

Goddamn This War!
by Jacques Tardi

Winner of Best U.S. Edition of International Material. Follows an unnamed French soldier through the horrors of World War I and also includes an illustrated chronology of the war.

Review at Forbidden Planet

A Classic Series--Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth 1: Out of the Deep Woods
by Jeff Lemire

Gus, a nine-year-old animal/human hybrid, grapples with some newfound abilities and the harsh reality of his existence when he starts exploring the world beyond his family's home after his father's death.

Sweet tooth 2: In Captivity
by Jeff Lemire

Gus is captured and placed in a containment camp for animal/human hybrids where he is a studied by a doctor who hopes to find a cure for the mysterious plague that has ravaged the world.

The Superhero Department

Marvel 1602
by Neil Gaiman

All is not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange new powers are emerging and such heroes as Spider-Man, Nick Fury, Dr Strange, Daredevil, and Captain America appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Review at Powell's Books

Essential Captain Marvel. Volume 2.
by Marvel Publishing

Collects tales of the Kree superhero Captain Marvel as he takes on the Super-Skrull, the Thing, the Controller, and the mad Titan Thanos.

Superman : Secrets & Lies Volume 2, Secrets and lies
by Dan Jurgens

Helspont, a descendant of the ancient alien race of Daemonites, has enlisted an army of robots to obtain all there is to know about the Kryptonian menace standing between him and dominion over the people of Earth.

Batman and Robin : Pearl Volume 2, Pearl
by Peter Tomasi

Damian Wayne, the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul, is the newest Robin, and he is hunted by such enemies as the Court of Owls, the Saturn Club, Terminus, and former Robins Nightwing, Red Robin, and the Red Hood.