Not always comical (RoPeCast #093)
Channel: RoPeCast
Date: 2016-12-17

This episode concludes our pre-Christmas series of book recommendations with comics respectively graphic novels. Peter has brought a selection of his favourites:

Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781401248192
A group of somewhat different superheroes has to deal with a murder case at the brink of World War III.

David Small: Stitches
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780393338966
The son of an X-ray doctor looses a vocal chord and his voice to cancer.

Allison Bechtel: Fun home
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780618871711
An autobiographical story of a homosexual coming-out.

Joyce Farmer: Special exits
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781606997604
The last four years of an elderly couple and how their daughter copes with her aging parents' peculiarities.

Craig Thompson: Blankets
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781770462182
The coming of age story of a boy, his first love and the ensuing problems with his devout Christian parents.

G. B. Trudeau: The Doonesbury Chronicles
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780805010626
The first collection of a famous American newspaper comic strip

G. B. Trudeau: Planet Doonesbury
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780836236866
An edition of later comics from the same series, with a very special advertisement on its front cover, that Peter reads out in the episode.

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