#11.  Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine
2007, Drawn & Quarterly

I keep trying to like Adrian Tomine, and he kind of just keeps leaving me cold.  Cool, anyway.  I'm not really sure what else to say about it.

I read Shortcomings in the space of about an hour; and thought about it; and then I reread it, trying to be sure to catch whatever I might have missed ( Read more... )

#9.  The Eternal Smile, Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
2009, First Second

The Eternal Smile is a collaborative anthology by comics artists Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim.  Before reading this, I had read Yang's American Born Chinese (which won the Eisner award in 2007, and which I recommend highly, albeit with a few reservations).  I hadn't ( Read more... )

Everything Asian, by Sung J. Woo (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009; ISBN-13 978-0-312-53885-9 ( Read more... )

Three graphic novels!

35. Toufic El Rassi, Arab in America.Pretty much precisely what the title says it is: reflections on being Arab in America, especially after 9/11. El Rassi covers quite a lot in a fairly short space, and does a good job conveying the feeling of insecurity in being perceived to be the enemy in the only country you have ever ( Read more... )