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Presents reviews of a variety of graphic novels and comic books.
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Stephen Weiner is the director of a library in Massachusetts and renowned pioneering expert in the field of graphic novels for two decades, as well as the author of The Rise of the Graphic Novel.
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Adult/High School-Entries run the gamut of style and age-appropriateness from Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen to Osamu Tezuka's Adolf, a five-volume manga examination of 20th-century cultural xenophobia. Weiner somewhat questionably includes a number of comic-strip collections (Walt Kelly's Pogo, Bill Griffith's Zippy, Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, and Charles Schultz's Peanuts). Annotations are uneven in quality and vary in their levels of detail and scope, making it a challenge to ascertain a clear comparison or contrast between narrative styles and artistic dynamics, as well as to identify which themes and issues are treated with which degrees of fancy, sensitivity, realism, or hyperbole. The age coding (child, youth, adult) goes unsupported by many of the annotations and no front matter suggests that local standards would play a significant role in such designations. Appended bibliographies suggest further readings for library collection builders and significant out-of-print titles. Oddly missing is D. Aviva Rothschild's Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-length Comics (Libraries Unlimited, 1995), a collection development tool that offered considerably more substance, in its day, than does this current title. The strengths of Weiner's book lie in the scanned black-and-white reproductions of most of the book covers, which give users firsthand experience of the rich diversity of illustrative styles, and a balance of fiction, in several of its genres, with nonfiction.
Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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- Publication date2003
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