Graphic Novels and Comic Books: Arts and Humanities Gallery

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies.

An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the formidable Ghetto Brothers gang.

A brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

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.

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators in the Middle East.

Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe is a collection of both the 1999 comic strips on Lisa's initial battle with cancer and the current series examining her struggle with the disease and its outcome.

A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of indigenous resistance to the European colonisation of the Americas.

On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol at Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled the trigger. Henrik Rehr's dark and riveting graphic novel imagines the events that led to WWI.

Collects three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prison project.

The Assassination of President Garfield Geary explores the first assassination of an American president.

"Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!" The famous Lizzie Borden double murder.

Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia.

In Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details.

In Graphic Subjects, Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels. The result is a challenging and innovative collection that reveals the combined power of autobiography and the graphic novel.

When it comes to recounting history, issues arise as to whose stories are told and how reliable is the telling. This collection of fourteen essays explores the unique ways in which graphic novels can aid us in addressing those issues while shedding new light on a variety of texts.

Citizens of No Place is a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, graphically represented using manga-style storyboards.

For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form!

Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and the most important institutions of the art world, including museums, auction houses, and the art press.