Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Loosely based on the author’s life, chronicles Craig’s journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
This is one that I’ve been wanting to read for ages. Ever since I first saw it sitting on the shelves in my local bookshop. It has, I think, one of [...]

This is another of those semi-autobiographical graphic novel memoirs.
Highly acclaimed, Swiss comic artist Fredrik Peters delivers a (mostly) intimate, poetic and accessible memoir. Following the story or Peeters’ relationship with his girlfriend Cati and her three-year-old son, what sets this appart, is that both Cati and her son are HIV positive.
The story, follows their relationship [...]

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return
Picked up this mainly of the back of positive reviews on some book-blogs (some of which are linked to at the end of this review) I’ve been reading.
While I’m acquainted with the form, I haven’t read many graphic novels in recent years, not since my [...]

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