Work cat.: Tamaki, Mariko. This one summer, 2014 (graphic novel telling a coming-of-age story)
2015 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books website, Sept. 12, 2017 (This One Summer, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko Tamaki. Intricately detailed illustrations in shades of indigo are masterfully layered with the text in this graphic novel. The pacing and strong imagery evoke myriad emotions and ground this poignant and painfully realistic coming-of-age story.)
RVMGF, via WWW, Sept. 12, 2017 (Bandes dessinées d'éducation. Equivalent: Coming-of-age comics)
Schwarz, G. Old media, new media : the graphic novel as Bildungsroman, 2011, viewed online Sept. 12, 2017: t.p. (the graphic novel as a bildungsroman, a coming of age story--an old genre in the literary canon appearing in a new medium) p. 48 (A number of graphic novels may be included in the bildungsroman genre; the graphic novel bildungsroman; the coming of age graphic novel; bildungsroman graphic novels)
Journal of graphic novels and comics, June 2014: p. 429 (In his 2012 comic My Friend Dahmer, Backderf explores the formative years of the man he knew as 'Jeff', using both the comics form and the genre of the Bildungsroman; the comic as Bildungsroman)