|summary=A man gathers a last memento or two before taking his suitcase in hand, saying farewell to his wife and daughter at the train station, and leaving for the docks to get the boat to the promised land. Once arrived, he finds strangeness everywhere - the food, the language, the immigration procedures, and the lodgings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0439895294</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor)
|title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
|title=Skim
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Skim is a slightly overweight, goth, witch-wannabe teenage girl going to an all girls High School in Toronto in the 1990's. The book takes the form of her diary entries, painfully honest, and very realistic with words crossed out and re-written at times. We see her tortured teen life and how she faces issues of suicide, depression, first love and being something of a mis-fit amongst the usual school cliques. We meet her initially trying out being a witch, and beginning a strange, secretive relationship with her hippy art teacher, Miss Archer. Then, after the suicide of the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls at Skim's school, those in charge at the school go on an overdrive of moral-boosting, supportive exercises to help all the girls cope. This coincides with Miss Archer leaving the school, which drops Skim into a morbid depression, isolating her even further from those in her class.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321362</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Herman
|title=I Like My Job
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=If you've ever been faced by too many Post-Its at the same time, or a performance review, or copious yards of errant electrical cabling all round your workspace - and especially if you've been left with an apologetic pineapple on your desk - this is a book for you. Here the office life is all delegating this, blah blah talk about that, and hanging far too much on the one guy who seems to be most with-it when it comes to the computers. It's a black and white world, on the whole, where you always get what you generally expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408576X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly
|title=The Dangerous Alphabet
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=A is for Always, that's where we embark. B is for boat, pushing off in the dark... And so begins Neil Gaiman's adventure through the (unreliable) alphabet, in the company of two children and their gazelle. They do battle with monsters, hunt for treasure, and get into all manner of scrapes. What awaits them when they get to Z? Dare you read on?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597154</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amit Dasgupta
|title=Indian by Choice
|rating=2
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Mandy is forced by circumstance to fly from his lifelong home in Chicago to India to represent his family at a wedding. He hates it. The Indians on the flight are brash, noisy, unmannered. The city he arrives in is a sprawling, noisy, polluted, impoverished mess. Everywhere people think Mandy is a daft name and he should have stuck to his name of birth, Mandeep. But he is American by choice, and finds nothing appealing about the prospect of four weeks in New Delhi.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8183281362</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guy Delisle
|title=Burma Chronicles
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artist, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life in Burma or Myanmar for roughly a year. We get to see the life in the country, from the racks of bootleg software, to the animation class he leads, to their efforts to get into the lush country clubs, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see the state of the country, with its horrid drugs, HIV/AIDS and malaria problems, hidden beyond the gentle Buddhist retreats. We see the Delisles' interaction with this singular country - the censored press, and the fact that their road is only made more busy because of the roadblock diverting everyone away from Aung San Suu Kyi's house a block away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087711</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Siddell
|title=Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=While having used the internet for several years now I have never needed to use the favourites option much – there is a routine for my comings and goings online that I can handle, and I don't think I regret losing out on a regular visit to any particular site much. The downside of this is that a lot of online graphic novels have probably passed me by, as I habitually don't form the habit of clicking to them. It's a relief then that one very well-acclaimed example, Gunnerkrigg Court, has come to my attention in book form.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856175X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rod Serling
|title=The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=One of the benefits of growing up when I did, as opposed to, say, just a year or two earlier, was that home VHS coincided with the first attempts to have round-the-clock TV in Britain. The channels struggled to provide enough programming at a budget, just as they do to this day, but one thing they did give us, delightfully, was ''The Twilight Zone''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587914</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Hughes
|title=Bye Bye Birdie
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Ah, who doesn't love Shirley Hughes? We've all read and cherished [[Alfie]] and [[Dogger]] over the years. 'Bye Bye Birdie' is her first graphic novel for adults, and it's as great as you'd expect it to be. A man goes on a date with a woman, but things don't turn out how he expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408075X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barasui
|title=Strawberry Marshmallow: v.1
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Strawberry Marshmallow is a slice-of-life manga by Barasui that follows the day to day lives of sixteen year old Nobue, her twelve year old sister Chika, and Chika's friends Miu and Matsuri. The little girls try to solve problems and help each other out, but things don't always go well. Leading to a slow paced, heart warming manga that's basic premise is 'cute girls do cute things in cute ways'. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Don't be fooled! ''Strawberry Marshmallow'', like most slice-of-life manga and anime is full of gentle, subtle and slightly obscure humour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1598164945</amazonuk>
}}
