Graphic Novels and Economics

When I was getting my copy of The Eternal Smile (also featured in The New York Times Book Review) signed at Comic-Con, the author of that graphic novel was listing other recent graphic novels he liked, and he said he was most looking forward to Asterios Polyp (see below). I'm not really interested in reading the two nonfiction titles listed below, but I thought my wife, who's an online couponizer, would find them interesting.

Fiction

Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli; "adorably dislikable, an egocentric, condescending, irritable "paper architect" and academic who sees everything in terms of dualities."

The Surrogates: Volume 1 - Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele; "The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics has ushered in the era of the personal surrogate, android substitutes that let users interact with the world without ever leaving their homes (the Bruce Willis movie adaptation comes out September 25)."

Nonfiction

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture - Ellen Ruppel Shell; "On social, environmental and even economic levels, discount stores aren't really bargains."

Free: The Future of a Radical Price - Chris Anderson; "How businesses can profit by giving things away."