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A lot of good books came out this year, or were at least finally collected and packaged into one nice volume. La Perdida by Jessica Abel is a collection of the entire La Perdida
series, which tells the tale of an American woman trying to find
herself and her heritage in Mexico City. The artwork is great, the
storytelling is pretty catchy, and overall it's a very compelling book
worth picking up.

Two of the more stand-out books that were released this year were Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka and The Mourning Star by Kazimir Strzepek. Kirihito
is manga-Godfather Tezuka's gripping thriller about a disease that
turns humans into dog-beasts, finally translated into English for an
American audience. The Mourning Star is an
incredible post-apocalyptic tale just started early this summer,
revolving around a cast of Disney-like creatures coping with the
incredibly violent and grim world in which they live one year after a
devastating global catastrophe.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is an amazing autobiography from the author of Dykes to Watch Out For.
It follows the author's adolescence as she copes with her gay father,
who corrupts young boys. Her father's troubles often overshadow
Bechdel's own problems as she tries to come to terms with her
homosexuality and provide one tense and hard-to-put-down tale.

The latest release from Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, is Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels.
For anyone who has ever been interested in the comics industry, McCloud
dissects the production process with the same skill and wit that he
brought to his first comic textbook. He tries to cover all the bases,
from writing to drawing to the future of comics on the Internet, and
solidifies his position as one of the best observers of the comics
medium around.

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