Category Archives: graphic novels

fred the clown — roger langridge

What to say about Fred­er­ick T. Clown, alias Fred the Clown? He’s weird, he smells and he’s an idiot. The ulti­mate anti­hero. In this graphic novel Fred gives his ten steps to hap­pi­ness. And it will become clear the road to this goal is a hard and long one.
This pic­ture for exam­ple is from step 6: never stop search­ing for true love:

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But never give up hope peo­ple!
It seems Fred doesn’t, so why would you?
A very com­fort­ing thought that when even such a char­ac­ter as Fred can bounce back,
so could every­body else.
Isn’t that the ulti­mate happiness?

blankets — craig thompson

5 stars

Craig and his brother Phil grow up in a highly reli­gious fam­ily and envi­ron­ment. What they learn and what they see is based on God. Also the sum­mer camp Craig attends. But on that camp he meets a girl, a girl he gets feel­ings for and when he stays at her house and with her fam­ily for two weeks his believes and thoughts start to crum­ble. What is he sup­posed to do with his feel­ings on the one side and his believes on the other? Can he pick a side in his strug­gle to under­stand what is hap­pen­ing?
A great ‘com­ing of age’ novel. Thomp­son, with his draw­ings and dia­logues, really knows how to por­tray the life of a young boy grow­ing up with God. A must read.

the complete maus — art spiegelman

5 stars

Art wants to cre­ate a book about World War II and his best resource is his father. He and his wife, Art’s mother, have lived through the com­plete war, through the begin­ning where the Jews got less priv­eleges, to towns with Jews dri­ven together, to Auschwitz. So Art vis­its his sick father every week and wants to hear every story his father has to tell about his fam­ily and their friends.