This Saturday, September 26, we hope that you will join us for QPL Comics, a day-long online celebration of all things comics! You will (virtually) meet graphic novel creators, learn how to draw comics, watch a roundtable with the comic book expert librarians from our staff,…
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Batman: Year One (1987)Written by Frank Miller, illustrated by David MazzucchelliThis wonderful exploration of one of the great origin myths of comics is Frank Miller at his best. Batman is shown to be fallible and fumbling. He needs to find his way and at first he stumbles.This…
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)By Marjane Satrapi –Far superior to the movie and second volume which followed it, this beautiful graphic memoir is a spare, sometimes stark remembrance of a girlhood in Iran under the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s monochrome, heavy…
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Welcome to Graphic Classics! This new regular series will focus on some of the key works of graphic literature that are available on the shelves at Queens Library.Libraries have been buying classics in literature for generations, and that includes graphic novels.These are not…
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“Shut it down? By the end of tonight, I will be a hero, just like you … Batman.” These are the words spoken by Hugo Strange during the title screen of Batman: Arkham City, but it isn’t Batman he’s speaking to — it’s Bruce Wayne, who is handcuffed to a chair and about to be…
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