This is Alison Bechdel's review in the NYT of Jane Vandenburgh's A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: 
You can see a larger version here.Why shouldn't there be more of this kind of thing? I can imagine that there would be many books — not all, not most, but many — that would be very well served by graphic reviews. (Along these lines, see my review of the graphic version of The 9/11 Report.) UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Mark, here's Ward Sutton's review of Roth's latest. It's a lot less substantive and useful than Bechdel's work: there are only a handful of words, and the images add no information. Bechdel's words and images work together much better and provide a denser and more meaningful experience for the reader.
Text Patterns
March 30, 2009
Ward Sutton just had a graphic review of Philip Roth's latest in the Village Voice—can't get the link to work in this comment box, though, sorry.
A design professor whom I remember very fondly ran his course on the predicate that words are often not the best way to communicate ideas. We spend a lot of time on maps, diagrams, and other sorts of printed communications; sometimes augmented with words and numbers, sometimes not.
I used Linx as an excuse to introduce myself to the woman who became my wife, but we made our fortune from Mosaic.
Sorry I can't cite specific examples just now, but I know Harvey Pekar (with others illustrating) has done a bit of this over the years.