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‘Are you my mother?,’ ‘My Friend Dahmer,’ ‘Jerusalem’

Three new graphic novels deal with different kinds of boundaries

By Dan Wasserman

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    May 06, 2012

Three bracing new novels-- “Are You My Mother?” By Alison Bechdel; “My Friend Dahmer” By Derf Backderf; and “Jerusalem” by Derf Backderf--by established cartoonists confront the distorting effects of physical and emotional boundaries inside families, peer groups, and a divided city. Each delineates the stunting effects of separateness with power, insight, and varying shades of dark humor.

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