Laura Knetzger’s BUG BOYS (Random House Graphic, 272 pp., $13.99; ages 7 to 10) is a fantastically reader-friendly collection of fully illustrated, full-color short tales about the adventures of ...

The genre he's messing with in "Lost Cat" (one of the final books translated by Fantagraphics's late co-publisher, Kim Thompson) is the noir detective tale.Its protagonist is a lonely, middle-aged ...