In her first graphic memoir, Satrapi, right, described a childhood overshadowed by Iran's Islamic revolution.

He is also the author of the graphic memoir My Father's Eyes.

It is the setting for Fun Home, a 2006 graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, who grew up there.

A graphic memoir, by the author of "Maus," about the attack on the World Trade Center.

David Small's graphic memoir, Stitches, was published in September, 2009.

A graphic memoir about the attack on the World Trade Center.

In 2010, Wertz published Drinking at the Movies, her first full-length graphic memoir.

The graphic memoir explores issues of political upheaval and religious oppression during Iran's fundamentalist revolution.

Instead, artists and their critics sometimes search for new words, such as graphic literature or graphic memoirs.