The author of “Today Will Be Different” on five books so good it’s scary.
Whether you’re battling boredom in the suburbs or attending a magical school for mutants, growing up is hard to do. Trekking to adulthood is a universal journey, and teenage angst is a language we all speak. The settings of the following graphic novels may be worlds apart, but each focuses on a coming-of-age, delayed or […]
These days, it seems like you can’t turn around without stepping on a cape or two. Always the powerhouses of the comic book world, superheroes have now taken over movie theaters as well. But as much as we love our costumed crime fighters, we recognize the fact that not everyone is as excited as we […]
There’s a reason the word “graphic novels” are called “novels”—these works are just as complex, deeply-imagined, and surprising as any work of prose literature. What graphic novels bring to the table, above and beyond their literary value, is the artwork, the visual expression of thoughts and ideas. The 10 books listed here are iconic examples […]