Graphic novels

摘要

LOOKING AT RUSSIA In the centennial year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, let us explore what comics can tell us about that complicated country. Ambivalence about Russia has been widespread-in 1854, revered French artist Gustav Dore published The Rare and Extraordinary History of Holy Russia, cartoons of unflinching satire reprinted this year and a good choice for academic libraries. More recent satire-histories that revisit the revolution and the end of dictator Joseph Stalin include Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's forthcoming De,ath to the Tsar (Titan Comics, 2018) and the just-released Death of Statin (starred review, LJ 9/1/17).