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Americans who consider themselves sophisticated about sex may nevertheless be startled by the graphic content of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (Grove Press; 209 pages). Not to worry. The memoir by Parisian art critic and magazine editor Catherine Millet managed to shock even the French...
...known that one of the first books about the war in Afghanistan came from a cartoonist. Ted Rall's "To Afghanistan and Back" (NBM Publishing; 112pp.; $15.95) describes itself as a "graphic travelogue" but belongs in the milieu of war-torn foreign correspondence trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover...
...earned earlier this year by making fun of Sept. 11 widows--but at least Rall came by his iconoclasm the hard way. Last November he went to Afghanistan, where he spent the next few weeks bored, terrified and enraged with the corruption and cynicism he witnessed. Rall's "graphic travelogue" is a gritty mix of photos, prose and his distinctive cartoons, which look as if they were drawn on the back of a math notebook. Though his perpetual jadedness can be infuriating, it's an astringent alternative to government press releases and the network news. --By Lev Grossman
...Road to America" (Drawn and Quarterly; 56pp.; $14.95), a graphic novella by the French artist known as Baru (né Hervé Baruléa) hopes to make a worldwide impact this June when it gets simultaneously published in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. A sports comic with themes of race and identity, set at a time reminiscent to current events, "Road to America" goes for the knockout, but wins instead by decision...
...WILL EISNER MAKES UP THE PHRASE GRAPHIC NOVEL TO DESCRIBE HIS BOOK "A CONTRACT WITH GOD," WHICH TARGETS A MORE MATURE, LITERARY READERSHIP...