Now Available: New Edition of ARLIS/NA Notable Graphic Novels Review!

Announcing the latest edition of the ARLIS/NA Notable Graphic Novels Review is now available! This edition includes reviews for 10 titles that were published in 2025 (reviews were written in 2026), 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:  

Ellen Bae, Librarian Specialist, Brand Library & Art Center

Elizabeth Carroll, Special Collections Curatorial Specialist, Toronto Metropolitan University

Angela DiVeglia, Instruction and Outreach Librarian for Special Collections, Rhode Island School of Design

Maxfield Earle, Artist, Library Page at Amherst Public Library, MLIS, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Lindsey Jackson, Public Services Librarian, Architecture Library, Texas Tech University

Luciano Johnson, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Research Library, The Frick Collection

Kai Miyabayashi McGinn, Research and Instruction Librarian, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design

Lucy Pauker, former Processing Archivist at Jewish Public Library Archives (Montreal, QC)

Annie Sollinger, Visual Archivist, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sarah E. Stanley, Head, Art & Architecture Library, Virginia Tech

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