Books about Graphic Novels

Another in Neil Gaiman's series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, into which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.

This collection of stories in comic strip form includes an interpretation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , alongside Calliope , A Dream of a Thousand Cats and Facade . Also included is the annotated script for Calliope , showing the process behind creating a comic-book.

Kai'ckul (the Sandman) tries to keep order in his kingdom of sleep against the forces of darkness and nightmares. This collection contains the full seven-part Doll's House storyline.

Rorschach, a half-psychotic vigilante must convince his ex team-mates, now middle-aged and retired, that he has uncovered a plot to murder the remaining superheroes - along with millions of innocent civilians. Even reunited, will the remnants of the 'Watchmen' be enough to avert a global apocalypse?

This graphic novel is a complete 10-issue story, available for the first time in a Watchman-style edition. It has been illustrated in full colour by the artist, David Lloyd.

There is nothing more dangerous than a childhood fantasy that has outgrown you. This graphic novel, featuring the character Barbie, from The Doll's House , explores issues of gender, identity and the fine line between fantasy and reality.

This collection of tales tells of travellers caught in the vortex of a reality storm . These wayfarers come from throughout time, myth and dreams to converge upon a mysterious inn, there to share stories of the places they have been and things they have seen, beside a flickering fire.

A journey through the dark and enchanting realm of dreams and nightmares with Sandman. This graphic novel tells of Sandman's attempt to free his lost love from hell, his confrontation with the devil and the consequences of that fateful meeting. This volume introduces the Endless family.

The Corinthian, Lucifer Morningstar, the Three Witches and others - a host of old friends, ancient enemies and unlooked-for betrayers - all come together for a mythic conflagration of nightmare proportions that will affect the future of the Endless and the fate of the Dreaming for all time.

The story of the search for Sandman's missing brother, Destruction, and the consequences of that endeavour. Sandman and his sister Delirium have to travel through the waking world to find the missing member of the Endless family. Sandman also manages to resolve his relationship with his son.

Lady Johanna Constantine, spy and adventuress, on the run through the streets of Paris during the bloody days of the French Revolution. Joshua Norton, self-styled Emperor of the United States, a pawn in a game grander than he could imagine. These are just two in a collection of nine short stories.

This work concludes the Sandman series. Morpheus is dead. As his family and friends gather to mourn him, a new Lord of the Dreaming begins to rebuild his realm. The volume ends with The Tempest , a flashback to a moment in Morpheus' past, concerning a bargain made with William Shakespeare.

Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

A group of fairy tale characters are exiled from their mythical homelands and must take up secret residence in modern-day America. Those who can pass as human live as part of an underground community called Fabletown in New York City. The non-human fables reside at the Farm, an upstate annex.

Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, this is all that anyone an talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams.

The first of a new series, Y: the Last Man . Without warning, a mysterious plague kills every creature on the planet with a Y chromosome; in other words, no more men. Except one: amateur escape artist Yorick Brown has somehow survived. But it's now a very different world.