Annotation:The story of a young Iranian woman’s struggles with growing up under Shiite Law, her journey into adulthood, and the daughter whom she had to leave behind when she left Iran.

Annotation:A deeply touching account of one woman's struggle with cancer; a story of heartbreak and hope told with sophisticated visual invention by her adult son. Originally serialized on the Internet during the ordeal, this won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic.

Annotation:Uniquely told with the inclusion of faxes sent to Kubert by Ervin Rustemagic, a friend who was in Sarajavo in 1992, during the siege of Sarajevo, this engrossing graphic novel is moving and tragic. Readers will be captivated by Rustemagic’s accounts of the war torn city and his family’s struggle to survive. The artwork is dark and violent to communicate the tone of the work.

Annotation:The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.

Annotation:A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.