This features several of the female characters from Satrapi's Persepolis, gathered together over tea in a Tehran apartment and taking advantage of their menfolk's afternoon nap to talk freely about their sexuality. It's beautiful and touching and very much in line with other things I have read about Iranian women's culture, and I highly recommend

10. Matt Dembicki (ed.), Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic CollectionDiverse collection of trickster tales from people indigenous to various territories of the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii, which is why I'm using that phraseology instead of "Native American"). All story texts are from indigenous storytellers, while most of the ( Read more... )

A gorgeous, haunting comic book with echoes of everything from the very best bits of Stephen King to some of the very worst bits of American history, with detours into a very creepy take on Alice in Wonderland, not to mention Br’er Rabbit ( Read more... )

( Cut for length and mild spoilers )

2. Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese is a graphic novel with three stories that gradually become connected in surprising (to me, anyway) ways: the legend of the Monkey King, the story of a second-generation Chinese American boy named Jin Wang, and the story of an American boy named Danny and his cousin Chin-Kee, the ultimate negative Chinese ( Read more... )

( Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi )

Noted briefly:

18, 19. Ai Yazawa, Nana, Volumes 11-12.

(Yes, I count manga.)

20. Robert Morales and Kyle Baker, Truth: Red, White & Black.In which the history of the super-serum that transformed Captain America into Captain America is revealed: in keeping with so much medical testing of the era, it was unethically developed on black test ( Read more... )