Mature Adults
HABIBI
BY CHRIS WILSON Editor-in-Geek With the amount of critical acclaim, accolades and awards Craig Thompson’s Middle Eastern tome, HABIBI, has received, I can barely contain my awe and struggle to recommend this beautiful work highly enough. It is, by far, the greatest piece of comics literature I read this year, or last year, or the year before that –– maybe longer.
ASTERIOS POLYP
By Catharina Evans Staff Writer STORY REVIEW David Mazzucchelli’s first solo foray into graphic novels exquisitely blends a strong aesthetic voice and a complex, engaging story on the posturings of academia, the difficulties of intimacy, and the philosophy of design. And to put it simply, one of the most visually provoking novels I’ve ever read.
LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE RENAISSANCE MAN
By Kevin Hodgson Staff Writer “There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so full of yearning for the infinite, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries than Leonardo da Vinci.” – Hippolyte Taine, art critic and historian STORY SUMMARY The mystery of the stolen masterpiece, The Mona Lisa, underpins a wonderfully conceived graphic story of the life of the most famous Renaissance man whose art inventive mind continues to echo to this day.