My latest graphic novel roundup was published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

If you think graphic novels tend to focus on people who get superpowers from spider bites or radioactive experiments gone wrong, think again.

Four of this summer’s best graphic novels cover topics as wide-ranging as the sexual exploits of writer Anaïs Nin, “the talk” Black parents have with their kids in an attempt to keep them safe, the race to build an atomic bomb and, OK, super-heroic He-Man. The illustration styles are as varied as the subject matter of these four titles…