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Summer Reading List: Graphic Novel and Cartoon Edition

By Greg Dybec

We've decided to provide a Summer Reading List for those of you who prefer a refreshing splash of illustration to go along with your literature after a long summer day. From classic Charlie Brown harboring comic strips to more contemporary and often experimental graphic novels, here's how to spice up the remainder of your summer with the best sequential art around.

Be sure to check out Critical Mob's previous Summer Reading Lists: 

Short Stories for a Long Summer

Fiction to Last You Until Fall

CRITICAL LIST

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

Harvey Pekar JT Waldman
Taking on the Jewish state posthumously. >>

Journalism

Joe Sacco
Drawn to the suffering of others. >>

Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons

Flannery O’Connor
A picture of things to come. >>

Ed the Happy Clown

Chester Brown
A nightmare to behold >>

Harvey Pekar's Cleveland

Harvey Pekar
To the end, a man and his city. >>

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel
Somebody wants their mommy. >>

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist

Alvin Buenaventura
In his own words and others'. >>

Unterzakhn

Leela Corman
It's the land of opportunity—for a price. >>

The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984

Charles Schulz
After 30 years, still a model of consistency. >>

Buddy Does Seattle

Peter Bagge
The 1990s was a time for Hate. >>