"Growing up in 1970s California, Mimi Pond found the aristocratic Mitfords, born in the early years of the 20th century, compellingly exotic. She shares her lifelong fascination in Do Admit! (Jonathan Cape), a splendid book of geopolitics, jolly hockey sticks and gossipy asides, as the sisters choose between fascism and socialism and help shape attitudes to everything from class to funeral rites."
"Pioneering photographer William Henry Jackson captured the old west for posterity, yet the popularity of his images speeded its destruction. Veteran cartoonist Bill Griffith recounts his great-grandfather's life in Photographic Memory (Abrams), which takes in the civil war, slavery, the obliteration of the Great Plains peoples and the inauguration of the United States national parks, as well as the brutal legwork and dangerous alchemy of 19th-century photography."
"But perhaps the most entertaining return came in Ginseng Roots (Faber), in which Craig Thompson revisits his Wisconsin childhood home (first described in 2003's Blankets) to explore the ginseng that sprouts in its mineral-rich soil. The tuber's knobbly roots connect Asian health food, American independence, the Vietnam war and Chinese myths; this is a charming account of the threads that bind us to"
Many notable 2025 graphic novels revisit the past with mixed emotions. Mimi Pond recounts a lifelong fascination with the Mitfords in Do Admit!, mixing geopolitics, jolly hockey sticks and gossipy asides as the sisters choose between fascism and socialism and influence class and funeral rites. William Henry Jackson's photographs captured the old West while accelerating its destruction. Bill Griffith's Photographic Memory traces a great-grandfather through the civil war, slavery, the obliteration of Great Plains peoples and the creation of national parks, and describes 19th-century photographic labor. Gareth Brookes adapts The Compleat Angler with linocuts and ink, and Craig Thompson's Ginseng Roots connects ginseng to history and myth.
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