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"Associated with the Graphic Narrative Project at Stanford University (graphicnarratives.stanford.edu). Academic and non-academic reference database on all sorts of issues related to graphic narratives, including graphic novels, manga, comics, webcomics, illustration of literature, cartooning, etc."

It hovers between picture book and graphic novel but another cool introductory book (to show it's not all Bam! and Pow!) might by Arrival by Shaun Tan. Entirely wordless, it depicts the diversity of the immigrant experience. The illustrations are hard to describe, but 'amazing' and 'otherworldly' will do for now.

"Dan Archer creates non-fictional, journalistic comics to offer a new perspective on US foreign and domestic policy"