Vickie Montigaud-Green, our Research Support Librarian: I was late to the graphic novel genre. My teenage son, Dominic, introduced me to many of these graphic novels below. I was blown away. I chose graphic novels within our collection of eyewitness accounts of survival.
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The Best We Could Do by
Vietnamerica by
War Brothers by
The Complete Persepolis by
March (Books 1 - 3) by
The Harlem Hellfighters by
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust" (NY Times)
Kampung Boy by
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