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Lewis, John, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March: Book One. Top Shelf, 2013. 128p. $14.95 Trade pb. 978-160309-300-2. John Lewis was one of the men who, in 1963, marched on […]

Few imprints have been so consistently dedicated to excellent comics for libraries as First Second, which served notice of its high standards with the thoughtful and seriously entertaining American Born […]

Julien Neel. Lou! Graphic Universe, 2012. $8.95. Grades 5 and up. Vol. 1: Secret Diary. 978-0-7613-8868-5. Vol. 2: Summertime Blues. 978-0-76138869-2. Vol. 3: Down in the Dumps. 978-08225-9165-8. Vol. 4: […]

Geary, Rick. Lovers' Lane: The Hall-Mills Mystery. NBM, 2012. 80p. $15.99. 978-1-56163-628-0. Grades 9 and up. The Reverend Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a member of his choir, are found [...]

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel. Illus. by Hope Larson. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012. 392p. $19.99. 978-0-374-38615-3. Grades 3 and up. Meg doesn't fit in. Maybe [...]

Gelatt, Philip, and Tyler Crook. Petrograd. Oni Press, 2011. 264p. $29.99. 978-1-934964-44-6. Grades 9 and up. It is World War I, and the British spy network in Russia is crumbling. [...]

Bellstorf, Arne. Baby's in Black: Astrid Kirchher, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles in Hamburg. First Second, 2012. 208p. $24.99. 978-1-59643-771-5. Grades 9 and up. This is the true story of [...]

Moriarty, Vol. 2: The Lazarus Tree. Daniel Corey, Anthony Diecidue, and Mike Vosburg. Image, 2012. $14.99. 978-1-60706-490-9. Grades 9 and up. It's here in the second volume of the series, [...]

Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics. Margreet de Heer. NBM, 2012. $16.99. 978-1-56163-698-3. Grades 7 and up. In short, colorful, humorously self-reflective chapters, de Heer takes us on a first-person tour [...]

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince. P. Craig Russell. NBM, 2012. $16.99. 978-1-56163-626-6. Grades 3 and up. It might seem odd to think of Wilde's classic tale of [...]

Friends with Boys. Faith Erin Hicks. First Second, 2012. $15.99. 978-1-59643556-8. Grades 5 and up. Maggie is a girl in the middle. She's on the cusp of a new life [...]

Harvey Pekar's Cleveland. Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant. Top Shelf, 2012. $21.99. 978-1-60309-091-9. Grades 9 and up. The prototypical biographer of American comics, Pekar died shortly before the publication of [...]

Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels. Stan Mack. NBM, 2011. $14.99. 978-1-56163-697-6. Grades 5 and up. Mack's history of the American Revolution strikes just the right balance. It's [...]

Day of the Magicians. 2011. $29.95. (9781594650352) Grades 5 and up Whispers in the Walls. 2012. $19.95 (9781594650680) Grades 7 and up Legend of the Scarlet Blades. 2011. $29.95 (9781594650208) [...]

Catwoman Vol. 1: The Game. 2012. $14.99 (9781401234645) Grades 10 and up Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Blood. 2012. $22.99 (9781401235635) Grades 9 and up Batwoman Vol. 1: Hydrology. 2012 $22.99 [...]

Zorro Vol. 1: Trail of the Fox. 2009. 200p. 978-1-60690-013-0. Zorro Vol. 2: Clashing Blades. 2010. 300p. 978-1-60690-116-8. Zorro Vol. 3: Tales of the Fox. 2011. 144p. 978-1-60690-236-3. Matt Wagner, [...]

Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory. O'Connor, George. First Second, 2011. 80p. $9.99. Trade pb. 978-1-59643-433-2. Grade 4 and up. Heracles was the most famous of the Greek heroes, and [...]

Age of reptiles omnibus. Ricardo Delgado. Dark Horse, 2011. $24.99 pb. 978-1-59582-683-1. All ages. Love dinosaurs and dramatic storytelling? Don't mind a little lizard-on-lizard violence? Then this is the book [...]

How to understand Israel in 60 days or less. Sarah Glidden. DC/Vertigo, 2010. $24.99.978-1-4012-2233-8. Grades 10 and up. Sarah has--not exactly enthusiastically--agreed to go on a Birthright Israel tour. A [...]

The Three Musketeers. Dumas, Morvan, Dufranne, Ruben, and Galopin. Papercutz, 2011. $21.99. 978-1-59707-253-3. Grades 3 and up. With vivid colors, clear action, and dramatic shading, the story of D'Artagnan has [...]

Sidekicks. Dan Santat. Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, 2011. $12.99. 978-0-439-29819-3. Grades 3 and up. Captain Amazing has three problems. One: He's not getting any younger. Two: [...]

Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush. Luis Alberto Urrea and Christopher Cardinale. Cinco Puntos Press, 2010. $16.95. 978-1-933693-23-1. Grades 7 and up. Mr. Mendoza doesn't believe in graffiti. He believes in public art, [...]

Three Thieves, Book One: Tower of Treasure. Scott Chantler. Kids Can Press, 2010. $8.95. 978-1-55453-415-9. Grades 4 and up. Dessa may be small, but she's as clever as she is [...]

Sherlock Holmes and the Scandal in Bohemia. 978-0-7613-6185-5. Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure at the Abbey Grange. 978-0-7613-6189-3. Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Blue Gem. 978-0-7613-6190-9. Adapted by [...]

The Last Unicorn. Peter S. Beagle, Peter B. Gillis, Renae De Liz, and Ray Dillon. IDW, 2011. $24.99. 978-1-60010-851-8. Grades 4 and up. For centuries, she has watched the forest [...]

The Stuff of Legend, Book One: The Dark. Mike Raicht and Brian Smith. Ill. Charles Paul Wilson III. Villard, 2010. $13.00. 978-0-345-52100-2. Grades 9 and up. When a little boy [...]

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Matthew K. Manning and Ricardo Osnaya. Stone Arch, 2010. $26.65. 978-1-4342-1988-6. Grades 4 and up. When Ali Baba accidentally overhears the password that leads [...]

Aldebaran, vol. 1: The catastrophe. 978-1-905460-57-1. Aldebaran, vol. 2: The group. 978-1905460-70-0. Aldebaran, vol. 3: The creature. 978-1-905460-93-9. Betelgeuse, vol. l:The survivors and the expedition. 978-1-84918-004-7. Betelgeuse, vol. 2: The [...]

Amulet, book three: The cloud searchers. Kazu Kibuishi. Graphix, 2010. 978-0-545-20885-7. $10.99. Grades 4 and up. Emily first came to this strange world to save her mother, but now even [...]

Cenicienta. Beth Bracken and Jeffrey Stewart Timmins. Stone Arch, 2009. 978-1-4342-1900-8. The Emperor's New Clothes. Stephanie True Peters and Jeffrey Stewart Timmins. Stone Arch, 2009. 978-1-4342-1595-6. Jack y Los Frijoles [...]

The Count of Monte Cristo. Steven Grant and Dan Spiegle. Papercutz, 2010. $9.99.978-1-59707-177-2. Grades 4 and up. Treasure Island. David Chauvel, Fred Simon, and Jean-Luc Simon. Papercutz, 2010. $17.99. Grades [...]

Giant size Little Lulu, vol. 1. John Stanley and Irving Tripp. Dark Horse, 2010. $24.99.978-1-59582-502-5. Grades 4 and up. Maybe one comic strip in twenty remains funny a decade after [...]

City of spies. Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan, and Pascal Dizin. First Second, 2010. $16.99. 978-1-59643-262-8. Grades 5 and up. By turns funny, stirring, and deeply touching, City of Spies switches [...]

A.D.: New Orleans after the deluge. Josh Neufeld. Pantheon, 2009. $24.95. 978-0-307-37814-9. Grades 9 and up. The story of Hurricane Katrina is ugly. Now it is also human. Neufeld's retelling [...]

The Eternal Smile. Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim. First Second, 2009. 978-1-59643-156-0. $16.95. Grades 7 and up. When American Born Chinese first hit the stands, everyone was taken [...]

Pluto, Vols. 1-4. Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka. Viz, 2009. $12.99. Vol. 1: 978-1-4215-1918-0. Grades 9 and up. A mysterious robot with unparalleled power is tracking down the planet's most [...]

Alan's War: The memories of G.I. Alan Cope, Emmanuel Guibert. First Second, 2008. $24.00. 978-1-59643-096-9. Grades 9 and up. When Guibert met Alan Cope, he had no idea he would [...]

Garfield: 30 Years of laughs & lasagna. Jim Davis. Ballantine, 2008. $35. 978-0-345-50379-4. Grades 4 and up. This is an ideal introduction to the famous fat cat comic strip. This [...]

In Japanese, 'kawai' is a word that is hard to say without squealing and clapping your hands. If you say it with heavy emphasis on the last vowel, it means [...]

Journey: The adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire. Vols. 1-2. William Messner-Loebs. IDW, 2008-9. $19.99. (Vol. 1: 978-1-60010-351-3). Grades 9 and up. In the mid-1980s, all the comics nerds knew about Messner-Loebs' [...]

Aldebaran: The catastrophe. Leo, Cinebook, 2008. $19.95. 978-1-905460-57-1. Grades 7 and up. Cinebook consistently publishes excellent European comics in English--comics that push at the genre boundaries North America has come [...]

Rogue angel: Teller of tall tales. Barbara Randall Kesel and Renae De Liz. IDW Publishing, 2008. $19.99 978 160010318-6 Grades 5 and up, Annja, a brilliant archaeologist, has a secret: [...]

Normally, the books in this column are recommended for having excelled in all aspects of graphic storytelling. This month, however, we recommend three books, net because they are artistically perfect, [...]

Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. Yoshiyuki Nishi, Viz, 2007-8, Vol. 8: 978-1-4215-1643-1. $7.99. Grade 6 and up. Muhyo is a perplexing scholar of super natural law who, with [...]

The Essex County Trilogy: Tales from the Farm, Vol. 1. 978-7-891830-88-4. $9.95. Ghost Stories, Vol. 2. 978-1-8918310-94-5. $14.95. The Country Nurse, Vol. 3.978-1-891830-95-2. $9.95 Jeff Lemire. Top Shelf Comics, 2007-8. [...]

Cory Doctorow's futuristic tales of the here and now. Doctorow and others. IDW, 2008, $24.99. 978-0-7679-2037-7. Grades 7 and up. A girl who has mastered an online role-playing game at [...]

Little vampire, volume 1. Joann Sfar. First Second, 2008, $13,95,978-1-59643-233-8, Grade 4 and up, The three stories collected in this first volume have all been successes individually, and it's easy [...]

20,000 leagues under the sea. Carl Bowen and Jose Alfonso Ocampo Ruiz, Stone Arch, 2008, $24.00, 978-1-48420447-9. All ages. A monster has appeared at sea, a monster that can cross [...]