==Graphic novels==
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{{newreview
|author=Grant Morrison
|title=Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Consider the super-hero comic. Borne out of a need to create cheap and franchise-friendly content for newspapers in America, it's grown into a billion-dollar industry, with Hollywood jumping on the bandwagon of several major characters now their FX have finally caught up with the printed page. Disposable? - once upon a time, yet now collectable to the tune of a million dollars or more. Frivolous? - probably, yet not exclusively now, if ever so. At one point here just one product of the infinitely powerful imaginary system each of us carries in our brain, and at the other "ethereal, paper-thin constructs of unfettered imagination".
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408996X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Winshluss
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Oivind Hovland
|title=Trial and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=We open with a long, slow aerial shot, up the driveway of a chateau buried in the French countryside, focussing in on the family (father, mother, daughter, son) that live there. All except this cannot happen, as yet, for this is long before the age of powered flight and such a shot is impossible. It is up to the son in that family, one Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque, to pursue that dream and make it true.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808847</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Oivind Hovland
|title=A Day in the Life of Alfred
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Witness Alfred, getting up, getting ready for work, finding himself low on toothpaste again, going to work, working, coming back from work and falling asleep at home. Is it Alfred's fault, or the world's, that in all that routine, it appears nobody ever talks to him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808855</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rosalind Penfold
|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, and at times foretell just what people in it say. It's a damning indictment of things that that is even possible.
This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with ease, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start to happen – he declares her work getting in his way, he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shop-talk with other men. And things escalate and escalate, and – you know every stage. She suffers a guilt trip, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with him, then finding the right kind of help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
|title=Demo: v. 1
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. It's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Eisner
|title=The Dreamer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, who else on the burgeoning Bookbag database has created a whole literary artform, almost single-handed? Not just added something to a genre, or tweaked a style to her own, but done so much towards inventing a format of literature? The name of Will Eisner is legend in the world of graphic fiction, and this book, starting as a thinly-veiled autobiography, is almost as iconic as its creator.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328082</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Rendel
|title=Pentti and Deathgirl
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=I don't think there will be a more divisive book on our Bookbag database for many a moon to come than this volume. The publishers have it that this is ''a strange and wonderful delight for every reader'', and while that phrase starts with full honesty I have to say it becomes less truthful with every word.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085069</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale
|title=Rapunzel's Revenge
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=''Rapunzel's Revenge'' is a re-telling of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. It is set in the Wild West and is in the form of a graphic novel.
Rapunzel is a feisty 12-year-old living in a grand villa with Mother Gothel. She wants for nothing in the material sense, but is bored and rather lonely. A large wall surrounds the villa, and Rapunzel is determined to climb it, despite being forbidden to do so. She scales the wall and is amazed at what lies on the other side. On her return, she has a chance encounter with her real mother who is enslaved in the mine camps beyond the villa. To punish her rebellion, Rapunzel is banished and imprisoned in a lofty magical tree, but the magic also helps her hair to grow and eventually gives provides her with the means to escape.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1599902885</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danny Fingeroth
|title=The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=I have an admission to make. There are elements of my life I hold dear that, whatever I do, I cannot make other people converts to. They remain resilient to the charms of OMD, and for the life of me I seem unable to make people see the merit of graphic novels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843539934</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
|title=The Comic Strip History of the World
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Comic Strip History of the World'' is, as you might expect, a comic strip history of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period of history summed up in a page or two. It's very much a potted history in the vein of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been before.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gary Northfield
|title=Derek the Sheep
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Derek spends his days eating grass, talking to other sheep, trying to avoid angry bulls and entering the Farmyard Best Haircut competition - y'know, typical sheep stuff. ''Derek the Sheep'' packages together thirteen of the comic strips from ''The Beano'' into an enjoyable collection.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594244</amazonuk>
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