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Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press-- from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets-- was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner's radical...
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Forget what you know. This book changes everything. Someone's found her voice and she has A LOT to tell you"--Provided by publisher.
23) Girl juice
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century, Welcome to the Girl Juice House, home of the hottest gang in town. Benji Nate's stylish and rambunctious sense of humor lovingly takes digs at the young and tragically hip-reserved and introspective Nana, comically hypersexual Bunny, fledgling U-tuber Tula, and Designated Mom Sadie-as they navigate life, love, and the pursuit of a good time. Girl Juice flaunts the gloriously...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 4
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The rumor mill of Olympus is constantly churning, but Persephone and Hades are all anyone can talk about. With the constant gossip creating intense pressure on the pair, they decide to slow down their budding romance and focus on sorting out their own issues first. But that's easier said than done. Hades struggles to find support in his personal life, with Zeus trivializing his feelings and Minthe resorting to abusive patterns in their relationship....
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in thetime and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?"--...
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cinema and surrealism-- those twin-born monsters of 20th century culture-- found a common champion in the visionary Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who transformed his childhood nightmares into art, but then came to dream of a better world. Buñuel: In the Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the graphically surreal true story of how, why, and where this unique artist came to film his third feature, the 1932 "pseudo-documentary" Las Hurdes (Land Without...
Author
Publisher
Red Lightning Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In March of 1944, at age 10, little Eva was arrested with her entire family, including her twin sister, Miriam, for the "crime" of being Jewish. Nazis loaded Eva and her family into a cattle car with other men, women, and children headed to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Within moments of their arrival, the twins lost their entire family to the gas chambers without a chance to say goodbye. Because twins were considered valuable for research,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate awaits a brother and sister after a traffic accident in this town of the dead? In another tale, a girl falls silent, her tongue transformed into a slug. Can a friend save her? Then, when a young man moves to a new town, he finds the house next door has only a single window. What does his grotesque neighbor want, calling out to him every evening from...
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 5
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It is Persephone's birthday, and she receives the ultimate gift: Hades confesses his desire for her, leading to their first kiss. But that doesn't necessarily make things easier for the goddess of spring, who is still in over her head in gossip-driven Olympus. Persephone feels intense guilt over the official breakup between Hades and Minthe, she is struggling to find her footing in her fast-paced job, and--worst of all--the shades of her past are...
Author
Series
Sad ghost club volume 1
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club. (You are not alone. Shhh. Pass it on.) This is the story of one of those days - a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it's a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn't. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, alone at a crowded party, spies another sad...
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home--from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo--and she's struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Hades is also off-balance, fighting against his burgeoning feelings for the young goddess...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Alice loves to talk to her dolls, and her dolls and dollhouse love to talk back. When Alice is six, she is given a beautiful antique dollhouse. When things in her life get scary, Alice turns to her dolls and dollhouse for comfort. One day, they invite her to come play inside with them. As Alice's life is turned upside down in the "big" world, she is always welcomed home to the little world inside the dollhouse; the house will even grant her a wish...
37) Plunge
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress call... Tracing the signal to a remote atoll in the Bering Strait, the Rococo oil company hires the Carpenter brothers and their salvage crew to investigate the ghost ship. Joined by a marine biologist and an oil executive, the brothers set out on a grim mission to learn what caused the disappearance and recover...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A loving home and husband; two grown sons; a lakeside cabin with a picnic table where their initials are carved; and the chance encounter at a party that destabilizes it all. Elise is in her mid-fifties and is satisfied with life. But the moment she sees Dagmar, she's entranced. What begins as eye contact transitions to harmless texting, and quickly swells into the type of lust and yearning Elise did not know her life was lacking. Both are happily...
39) Do a powerbomb
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro-wrestler, but she's living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest pro-wrestling tournament of all time, which is also the most dangerous!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with a God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages like familiar but partially forgotten nursery rhymes--transmuted...
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