Pictures tell the stories

The 14th Dalai Lama

A Manga Biography

Tetsu Saiwai

Penguin, $15 paper

A graphic biography of the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The Alchemist

A Graphic Novel

Paulo Coelho, illustrated by Daniel Sampere

HarperOne, $22.99

A visual reinterpretation of the magical tale of Spanish shepherd boy Santiago’s journey in search of a treasure buried in the Egyptian pyramids.

Blackest Night

Geoff Johns, illustrated by Ivan Reis

DC Comics, $29.99

Fallen superheroes and villains are reanimated as zombies, while other superheroes work to make the world right again.

Dante’s Divine Comedy

A Graphic Adaptation

Seymour Chwast

Bloomsbury, $20

Dante and Virgil have gone graphic in this starkly funny and wise visual reinterpretation of life after death.

Dark Rain

A New Orleans Story

Mat Johnson, illustrated by Simon Gane

Vertigo, $24.99

A bank heist story set against the destruction and flooded streets of New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina.

The Exile

An Outlander Graphic Novel

Diana Gabaldon, illustrated by Hoang Nguyen

Del Rey, $25

In her first graphic novel, Gabaldon retells some of the events of “Outlander” from Jamie Fraser’s side of the story.

Forget Sorrow

An Ancestral Tale

Belle Yang

W.W. Norton, $23.95

A Chinese American’s tale of growing up in the West with traditional values, returning to China to study art and bearing witness to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Sarah Glidden

Vertigo, $24.99

A Jewish progressive hopes that a 10-day trip to Israel will reveal the truths at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict but finds that there are no easy answers, only deeper questions to attend to.

The Little Prince

Joann Sfar

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $19.99

French graphic-novel star Sfar’s adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic tale reminds us that it is not always children who learn from adults, but often the other way around.

Neil Young’s Greendale

Joshua Dysart, illustrated by Cliff Chiang

Vertigo, $19.99

Sun Green is a teen just trying to save the planet, but she has a problem: Why do all the women in her family vanish when they reach her age? Based on Young’s rock opera.

Richard Stark’s Parker

The Outfit

Darwyn Cooke

Idea & Design Works, $24.99

This is the second time that Cooke has adapted a novel by noir master Richard Stark featuring his tough-guy Parker.

X’ed Out

Charles Burns

Pantheon, $19.95

Flashbacks, alternative realities and dream sequences fill the days of Doug, a young man recovering from a head injury.