Tales of the City #[nn]

San Francisco comes alive on this warmly illustrated cover, where the Golden Gate Bridge, a cable car, and the city's famous Victorian row houses set the stage for three characters caught in an intimate, intertwined embrace — a fitting visual introduction to the beloved world Armistead Maupin created in his novels. Ablaze brings that world to the comics page through the artistic collaboration of Isabelle Bauthian and Sandrine Revel, whose gentle, expressive linework gives the city and its people an inviting, lived-in charm. If you've ever wanted to wander the streets of 1970s San Francisco in graphic novel form, this 2022 adaptation is a genuinely appealing place to start.