The graphic work was created by the art director of Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky, an award-winning children’s book illustrator in Israel, in collaboration with Folman and a team of Israeli comics artists. Polonsky will make appearances in the U.S. to promote the book. Like the film, the book is the story of Folman, an Army veteran of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, who had forgotten—or suppressed—memories of serving in Lebanon. He embarks on an eccentric quest to find and interview members of his former army unit in an effort to recover his own memories of the war.

This first on-paper collection of a comic that’s won several Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards reads like a British boarding school version of Lost, in which each semiexplanation of one mystery leads to a new, larger one. The titular school looks more like a vast modern factory, while across the adjacent, forbidding Annan Waters is Gillitie Wood, home of fairies, gods, ghosts and sentient shadows. In her first school year, Antinomy Carver discovers that the two realms aren’t absolutely separate; her little stuffed doggie, for example, soon houses a grouchy but rather protective demon, while the robot she builds out of spare parts lying around the school crosses the Water and comes back with a living wooden arm. Grownups are of little help to the young protagonists, but Antinomy faces difficulties with courage and self-possessed good manners. She and her friend Kat respond appropriately to each fresh bit of weirdness, sometimes taking part in sci-fi space adventures, sometimes coping with the loss of a friend who’s changing into a bird. Siddell’s stylized manga-like art suggests energy struggling against determined restraint. The result is uncanny, perplexing and oddly compelling. (Dec.)

For more than 20 Years, the Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison has been regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium. During his career writing comics, he has contributed groundbreaking and best-selling superhero stories for both DC Comics—Batman, Superman, JLA, Doom Patrol, Animal Man—and Marvel Comics—New X-Men, Marvel Boy and Fantastic Four. In addition he has created a number of revolutionary original works including We3, The Invisibles, The Filth and the cult classics Kill Your Boyfriend, The Mystery Play, and Sea Guy.

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