We archive the Don't Overlook area so that you can browse past pages. Just click on a link below: August 2003    Bone; Persepolis;    Spirited Away; Wolves in Walls September 2003    Donald Duck; Magic Flute;    Herobear; One! Hundred! Demons! October & November 2003    What's Michael; Geobreeders 5;    Age of Bronze; Castle in the Sky 4;    Boulevard of Broken Dreams December & January 2004    Faster...Speeding Bullet!; Yossel;    Pencilling; Mignola's B.P.R.D. February & March 2004    Vagabond; Sandwalk Adventures;    Sprited Away; Nightwing April & May 2004    Hellboy; Alias; Fairly Odd Parents;    24 Hour Comics June & July 2004    Astroboy; Cartoon Cartoon;    SpongeBob SquarePants;    Punisher August & September 2004    In the Shadow of No Towers;    Persepolis 2; Elfquest;    Courtney Crumrin; Grampa & Julie Don't Overlook: Aug & Sep 2004 Every month we try to highlight a few exceptional works. These are simply titles you should give careful consideration. As new exceptional titles come along, we archive our past recommendations. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Bind: Hardback Price: $19.95 Age: Adult Pulitzer Prize-winner Spiegelman presents a deeply personal, politically charged, and graphically emotionally stunning account of the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001. In a large, 2-page spread format, he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey - with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit - the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy. He also shares a small folio of classic Sunday comics pages from the early years that resonate eerily today. This is his first new graphic novel since Maus. For mature readers. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi Bind: Hardback Price: $17.95 Age: Adult In this second volume of her autobiographical work, Satrapi recounts her teen years in Vienna, where her liberal parents had sent her to get an education and keep her away from the oppressive religious police in Iran. Feeling out of place, with no support group to help her, she starts to hang out with the wrong crowd, deals drugs, and ends up homeless on the streets. Forced to return home to Iran, Satrapi has to adjust to living with the constraints placed upon everyone by the government and enforced by the religious police. The first volume has appeared on several top graphic novel lists, including Time.com’s Top 25 of the year, and also on the Best Books for Young Adults list from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. For mature readers. Elfquest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy & Richard Pini Bind: Hardback Price: $24.95 Age: Adult Elfquest took the comics world by storm in the late 1970s and has long been a favorite of those who love fantasy and adventure with elves and wolves. The Pinis hadn’t written a new Elfquest story for years, however. Now, working with DC Comics, they have published the first new and original story of the Wolfriders in years. In this story, the elves have lost their Troll smiths, who had always forged their weapons and tools. Now Treestump decides it’s high time an elf mastered the art of metallurgy, something the Wolfriders have never before attempted. Meanwhile, Shuna, the adopted human daughter of Cutter and Leetah, must recover from her parents’ violent deaths. Painfully aware of her human heritage, she embarks on a quest to unite elves and humans in peace. For mature readers. Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom by Ted Naifeh Bind: Paperback Price: $11.95 Age: 10-14 Courtney’s life changed when her parents decided to move in with old Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old mansion; while her parents partied and carried on a social life with the upper class, Courtney discovered secrets about Uncle Aloysius and her place in his world. Unknown to her parents, Courtney learns how to practice magic, and now, in this volume, Uncle Aloysius sends her to the Coven’s special class for magical studies. But when a student spell goes wrong and leaves one of her classmates cursed, can Courtney lead her fellow students into Goblin Town and find a cure, or will misfortune follow the group straight into the Twilight Kingdom? This is a great Halloween treat for younger teen readers. For ages 10 and up. Grampa & Julie: Shark Hunters by Jef Czekaj Bind: Paperback Price: $14.95 Age: 14-19 Readers of Nickelodeon Magazine have enjoyed the all-ages adventures of Julie and her world-famous Grampa as they search the high seas for Stephen, the largest shark in the world. Now Top Shelf and Nickelodeon Magazine, with a grant from the Xeric Foundation (which benefits independent comics creators) have published the full-color volume. Julie and Grampa meet rapping squirrels, nerdy pirates, and entrepreneurial penguins as they travel from the bottom of the ocean to the furthest reaches of outer space in their search for Stephen. For ages 10 and up.