A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.

A sketchbook collection ... By Sam Thielman To fully understand Charles Burns’s remarkable graphic novel, “Final Cut,” you have to look closely at the way in which it was rendered.

The capstone of a multi-volume sketchbook project with diaristic elements and ironic newspaper-style strips, “Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3” depicts the travails of the jobbing artist ...