Interdisciplinary Studies

Blankets by Craig Thompson (Artist, Cover Design 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 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 Art Spiegelman 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 Marjane Satrapi 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 Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones " '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 Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons " '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)