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Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Even the greats had to overcome self-doubt and insecurity to create their masterpieces. Here, their musings on living a creative life are transformed into fun comics that provide a glimpse into their process, acting as inspiration for overcoming your own creative struggle. Featuring creative advice from Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Nikola Tesla, Mary Shelley, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Coltrane, Stephen...
3) Persepolis
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
Author
Series
Bigfoot boy volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After returning to the forest to search for the magic totem that enables him to transform into a sasquatch, Rufus and Penny have a plan to stop the developers who are cutting down the trees.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tintin discovers that Professor Calculus is building a top secret space rocket for the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre in Syldavia and before he knows it, he, Captain Haddock, Snowy, and the Thompson twins are on their way to the moon.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After Queen Eleanor is exiled by her sister to a convent on a remote island, she meets a young orphan, Margaret, but when Margaret befriends Eleanor, she learns the truth about her own past and she is faced with either helping Eleanor or protecting herself.
Author
Series
Berlin trilogy (Jason Lutes) volume 3
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the third and final act of Jason Lutes's Berlin, he ... demonstrates how the rise of fascism changes the city, radically transforming the intertwining lives of a small group of Berliners. --
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Spanning millennia, Daniel Locke's ambitious graphic novel explores humanity's inherent 'dreaming mind and its impact on our world. Surreal sequences take us from Gutenberg's printing press to Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web via Picasso, Einstein, Grandmaster Flash and more. Locke shows hour our basic instinct to observe, record and connect has formed the basis for all human invention and progress.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dali, who'd befriended Harpo. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian Tim Heidecker and Spanish comics creator Manuela Pertega, he's re-created the film as a graphic novel in all its gorgeous full-color, cinematic, surreal glory. In the story, a businessman named Jimmy (played by Harpo) is drawn to...
Author
Series
Sheriff of Babylon volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The War on Terror still rages in Baghdad as cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry must solve a deadly murder. He is forced to align himself with Nassir, the last policeman in Baghdad to try to unravel the bloody mystery. While Henry and Nassir search for answers there are forces in the shadows pulling strings that these men don't even know they're tied to. This mini-series continues with the wonderfully brutal script by Tom King (GRAYSON, THE...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life. This full-colour, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humourist...
17) Old souls
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Chris Olsen has a good life. He has a regular job, a wife and daughter who love him, and a promising future. By any measure this is a good life, but it isn't his first. When a troubling encounter with a homeless man triggers something inside Chris, memories of his past lives bubble to the surface. A lost Chinese boy, a wailing grandmother, and a love so powerful it never left his soul--all compete for his attention. Chris sinks deep into the seedy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica...to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead. Some are hideously mangled, as if in rage--some have been dissected in a curious and cold-blooded manner. Some are missing. But a still more horrific sight is the star-shaped mound of snow nearby...for under its five points is a grave--and what lies beneath is not human!"
19) Cicada
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Cicada is overworked, under appreciated, and generally discriminated against--but after seventeen years, it's time for a change." --Provided by publisher.
20) The third person
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she's reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, and has sought out Toby for approval for hormone replacement therapy. Emma has shown up at the therapy sessions as an outgoing, confident young woman named Katina, and a depressed, submissive workaholic named Ed. She has little or no memory of her...
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