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Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
GN 810L
Physical Desc
320 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s as he looks back on his career, Chan has spent a lifetime making comics in his native Singapore since he was a boy of 16, in 1954. The artist doubles here as both the narrator and the subject matter, as his life story parallels the changes in Singapore over five decades since the war. The evolution of his artwork mirrors the evolution of both his homeland and the comic book medium itself. The myriad...
3) Wonderland
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Experience Alice's fantastic world as they've never seen it before. Writer Tommy Kovac's Wonderland is missing Alice herself, but it's still populated by the other characters that make the world such a curiously exciting place. The Queen of Hearts is present, barking orders to lop off people's heads, as is the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the rest of Wonderland's beloved cast. And there are some new faces, too, including the...