This episode concludes our pre-Christmas series of book recommendations with comics respectively graphic novels. Peter has brought a selection of his favourites:
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
A group of somewhat different superheroes has to deal with a murder case at the brink of World War III.
David Small: Stitches
The son of an X-ray doctor looses a vocal chord and his voice to cancer.
Allison Bechtel: Fun home
An autobiographical story of a homosexual coming-out.
Joyce Farmer: Special exits
The last four years of an elderly couple and how their daughter copes with her aging parents\' peculiarities.
Craig Thompson: Blankets
The coming of age story of a boy, his first love and the ensuing problems with his devout Christian parents.
G. B. Trudeau: The Doonesbury Chronicles
The first collection of a famous American newspaper comic strip
G. B. Trudeau: Planet Doonesbury
An edition of later comics from the same series, with a very special advertisement on its front cover, that Peter reads out in the episode.