Selected examples of frequently-challenged graphic novels available for checkout:
Blankets by
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.
Fun Home by
Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that 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, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Maus: a survivor's tale by
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
Persepolis by
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Sandman by
" 'You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an anthropomophic personification on this or any other plane! An infantile, adolescent, pathetic specimen!' " (p. 219)
Watchmen by
" 'Mothman's in an asylum up in Maine. The Silhouette retired in disgrace, murdered six weeks later by a minor adversary seeking revenge. Dollar Bill got shot. Hooded Justice went missing in '55. The Comedian is dead.' " (Ch. 1, p. 19)
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