Graphic Novel Enthusiast Gifts

OK, we do the annual report as a graphic novel, but only if I don't have to read it.'

"I don't need good beach reading, Ma. I need good prison reading."

"Now I have to start pretending I like graphic novels too?"

"When those damn graphic novels started coming out—that's when it all went down the toilet."

"You don't think this could be construed as ironic do you?"

"I preferred the graphic novel of the origin story of the original prequel."

"It's a graphic novel about a regular girl living a regular life despite having shapeless blobs for hands."

'It's a 'graphic novel.''

'I'm thinking about going dark and gritty.'

"I don't get this! This app wants me to buy digital comic books!"

"Today's free comic book day, right?"

"Yeah, he'll do, at least until Eric gets home from Afghanistan."

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

"Yes. I said 2 by 2, but you needed to use 2 by 4s for the Ark...begin again."

Cariactures

"Either that's Marmaduke with a lizard's head in front of us, or I really mixed up my meds."

Thomas Mann.

Billy. The Kid.

Victor Hugo

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

Television Readers.

Honoré de Balzac

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'You can just forget about the cake.'

'He's not as studious as he looks - his backpack is full of comic books.'

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

"No flight of the Bumblebee"