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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments In the tradition ofPersepolisandAmerican Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M., sophomore, is a wry and endearing observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy. (andldquo;The name makes it sound fancier than... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson Publisher Comments From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, comes Craig Thompson's all-new masterpiece. Blankets — the most anticipated graphic novel of the year — is already being regarded as THE defining... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition) by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Epileptic by David B. Publisher Comments Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe's most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Hole by Charles Burns Publisher Comments Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk Publisher Comments The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field. Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine Publisher Comments The 2007 New York Times Book Review Notable Book now in paperback Lauded for its provocative and insightful portrayal of interpersonal relationships, Adrian Tomines politically charged Shortcomings was one of the most acclaimed books of 2007. Among many... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Poor Marie! Every night as she climbed into bed, she got a visit from three monsters. They only came out in darkness, so she knew they must be afraid of the light. Marie took a huge pair of scissors, and cutting the moon out of the sky, hung it right in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book's stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and--perfectly captured in Satrapi's simple, beguiling drawings--reveal the connections between women everywhere.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Praise for Persepolis and Persepolis 2 “A mighty achievement [and] an inspiring coming-of-age story.” ––USA Today “Delectable . . . Dances with drama and insouciant wit.” ––New York Times Book Review “... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi Staff Pick I must admit I read this, the second installment of Satrapi's illustrated autobiography, before reading the first. Without the full premise of how she left her native country of Iran for Europe, it was easy to think that I had found a interesting... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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