Cool book alert: 'Kiki de Montparnasse'

"Who is that woman, and why is she always naked?"

This week my husband couldn't help but sneak a peek at my bedside reading and ask for an explanation. His question, as it turns out, has been asked for nearly a century by admirers and curious onlookers.

In the new graphic biography, Kiki de Montparnasse (Abrams, $24.95), writer Jose-Louis Bocquet and artist Catel Muller tell the story of a...