Graphic Novels

Tuesday, September 6th | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Main Meeting Room or Virtual*

*Please email us to get the link to join the virtual meeting. Please note that you may choose to come to the meeting in person or virtually

Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith

“In this pen-and-ink graphic novel, in 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone’s control. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. Windsor-Smith has been working on this passion project for more than 35 years, and Monsters is part intergenerational family drama, part espionage thriller, and part metaphysical journey. Trauma, fate, conscience, and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most ambitious (and intense) graphic novel of Windsor-Smith’s career” –Provided by the publisher

Copies of the book are available for check out from the 2nd floor reference desk of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library – just ask at the desk!

Join us for our next book club meeting on September 6th at 6:00 pm in person or virtually – please email us to get the link to join the virtual meeting.