Events › Graphic Novel Book Club

Monthly book discussion on a graphic novel selected by the group! This program is for readers age 16 and up.

2025-2026 titles:

• September 11: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (1994), 224 pages
• October 9: Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil (2023), 368 pages
• November 13: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2024), 160 pages
• December 11: The House by Paco Roca (2019), 134 pages
• January 8: In: A Graphic Novel by Will McPhail (2021), 272 pages
• February 12: Special presentations by book club members who are authors: Mimi & Soni Discover Dussehra Legends by Devika Joglekar (2019), Kye in the Valley of Gold by Kyle Hurlbut (2024), Smiling Through the Mask by Daniele Archambault (2022)
• March 12: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls (2024), 400 pages
• April 9: Yellow Cab by Benoit Cohen (2022), 168 pages
• May 14: 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 by Marcelino Truong (2023), 296 pages
  
  Titles can be borrowed from the Palo Alto City Library and through our Link+ system - click on the links above or search in our catalog for more information.
  

Meetings are held in person in the Midtown Room at Mitchell Park Library and facilitated by Danièle Archambault.

Danièle Archambault, Ph.D. (Linguistics), is a researcher, author, and educator who is interested in comics as a way to document a society's cultural and linguistic landscape. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, she now lives in Palo Alto, where she is an artist in residence at the Cubberley Artist Studio Program, a program of the City of Palo Alto. In the past few years, she has published several full-color comic books, graphic novels, and electronic books. Ms. Archambault is a regular guest speaker on documenting culture and dialects through comics at various educational and cultural institutions. She teaches Visual Storytelling at the Palo Alto Art Center, and at other educational venues. http://danielebd.com/