Autobiographical comics 
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3.9 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel
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5 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art
An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New...