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Mirrors And Neck Ruffs: A Graphic Novel Takes On Velázquez

Writer Santiago García and artist Javier Olivares examine Diego Velázquez' painting Las Meninas and its influence down the centuries with a heady — and sometimes heavy — mix of comics and high art.
<em>The Ladies-In-Waiting</em> By Javier Olivares and Santiago García

Etelka Lehoczky has written about books for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Salon.com. She tweets at @EtelkaL.

There are a lot of famous mirrors in art history. From Jan van Eyck's — in which an eyelike mirror casts an aura almost as unsettling as the subjects' 1430s fashions — to Yayoi Kusama's dizzying, futuristic mirror rooms, a reflective surface can evoke anything from God's

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