Graphic Novels Read Winter 2007
Explore a curated reading list of graphic novels from Winter 2007, featuring standout picks like Alison Bechdel's *Fun Home* and Joshua Elder's *Mail Order Ninja Volume 1*. Discover classic and juvenile fiction comics that defined the season.
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Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
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Mail Order Ninja Volume 1
by Joshua Elder
Meet Timmy McAllister, a normal kid who lives in Cherry Creek, Indiana, where everyone & everything is normal. Normal, until the day Timmy orders his very own ninja As a little kid, who needs imaginary friends, when you can have your very own ninja? Timmy, & the town of Cherry Creek may never be the same.
