Shooting War by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman
“Shooting War,’ writer Anthony Lappé and illustrator Dan Goldman’s glossy, all-color graphic novel, is (a) political satire focused on the business of corrupt journalism, wars on terror (specifically the war in Iraq before it smoothly transitions into the war in Iran), and networks shaking hands with governments.’ Read the review at the Austin Chronicle.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, by Alan Moore
“Years before its publication, Alan Moore described “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier” as “not my best comic ever, not the best comic ever, but the best thing ever. Better than the Roman civilisation, penicillin … and the human nervous system. Better than creation. Better than the big bang. It’s quite good.” The third [...]
The Best American Comics 2007, edited by Chris Ware
“The comics collected in this book range fairly far and wide, but the strong center of gravity is plaintive tales of everyday life, set in the present, and usually about the social groups that comic artists themselves belong to. The appeal of such work is its emotional directness - in this age of highly branded, [...]