Gravett,
Paul. Graphic Novels:
Stories to Change Your Life. London:
Aurum, 2005. 192pp. ISBN 1845130685 (paper). New York: Collins Design,
2005. ISBN 0060824255 (paper).
- Things to Hate about Comics: Overcoming negative thinking ... 8
- Stories to Change Your Life: Thirty essential graphic novels to get you started ... 12
- The Undiscovered Country: Childhood's happy days or painful memories ... 20
- The Other Side of the Tracks: Growing up and making a lif of your own ... 36
- The Long Shadow: Survivng war and its aftermath ... 56
- The Superhuman Condition: What are your heroic ideals? ... 74
- Of Futures and Fables: The meaning of dreams, the insight of fantasy ... 86
- In the Mind's Eye: Confronting the horrors that lurk among us ... 102
- Murder, Smoke, and Shadows: The dangerous games of moral consequences ... 114
- Behind the Smile: Seeing the funny side ... 132
- Travels in Time: Inspired lives of curiosity and adventure ... 152
- Passion Beyond Reason: Unrequited love, affection, and secret desires ... 168
- Afterthoughts: Adaptations abriged too far, and a return to childish things ... 184
- Resources ... 186
- Acknowledgments ... 188
- Index ... 190