Political & Historical Graphic Novels

Written & Art & Cover by Jason Lutes During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to ...

by Reinhard Kleist In October 1958, a young German journalist arrives in Havana, Cuba, setting out to meet and interview Fidel Castro on behalf of a German newspaper. He finds himself in a country plunged into revolution. From the viewpoint ...

by Joe Sacco Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with ...

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New YorkerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story ...

by Joe Sacco Palestine: an ancient land torn asunder by ancient animosities. Through encounters with policemen, soldiers, terrorists, and civilians, Sacco depicts the harsh realities of a land ravaged by war and unrest. Mature Readers. Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: ...

Written and Drawn by Marjane Satrapi Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, "Persepolis: The Story of Childhood" ...