Announicing the latest edition of the ARLIS/NA Notable Graphic Novels Review! This edition includes reviews for 10 titles that were published in 2024 (reviews were written in 2025), plus an appendix of nominations. All reviews can be downloaded as accessible PDFs from the NGNR Knowledge Commons and are also linked individually on their website pages.
We encourage you to use the Bookshop links within each review in order to purchase titles, as ARLIS/NA receives 10% commission on each purchase made through our bookshop.org links.
Special thanks to our reviewers for volunteering their time:
Elizabeth Brown, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Aurora Daniel, MA History and MS Library and Information Science Student, Simmons University
Matthew Garklavs, Electronic Resources Librarian, Pratt Institute Libraries
Anne Kavanagh, Librarian, Collections and Licensing Services, University of Windsor
Erin Murray, Library Project Cataloger, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Lizzie Nagy, Library Assistant at National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Lauren Scanlon, Teaching & Learning Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sarah Scarr, Arts Collections Curator, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mimosa Shah, Reference Librarian, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Taylor Strong, Research and Instruction Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design
The primary objective of the Notable Graphic Novels Review is to acknowledge and celebrate the craft of sequential art from the last year by tapping into the experience and love of this medium from ARLIS/NA members. As a result, this annual publication can assist (art) library workers in improving their own institutional collections of graphic novels by providing summaries, critical evaluations, and informed recommendations.
Cheers!
Giana Ricci, giana.ricci@nyu.edu, co-editor
Tara Spies Smith, ts20@txstate.edu, co-editor
