Tag Archives: Graphic Novels

Watchmen by Alan Moore  741.5 M821w, 1987 There’s hardly any getting around this one; Watchmen is a classic, seminal work of the comics genre. I, of course, only heard of it when the movie was made a couple of years … Continue reading →

Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou 510.92 R961d, 2009 I took this one out on a total whim, and it seemed daunting so I put off reading it for ages. Once I got around to it, though, I was … Continue reading →

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes  741.5 C648, 1998 I saw the movie version of this graphic novel long before I read it, back in 2001 or so when it came out. The book was published in the nineties, and one … Continue reading →

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi  955.054 S253, 2003 This is probably the first real graphic novel I ever read (because I’m not counting Archie Comics here). One Christmas I had a Chapters gift card and I used it to buy this … Continue reading →

Pyongyang by Guy Delisle  915.193 D354, 2005 I discovered Guy Delisle quite by accident. One day I was shelving books in the travel section and came across Pyongyang. “Ooh,” I said to myself. I love travel memoirs and I love … Continue reading →