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A Mary Sue Best YA Graphic Novel Runner-Up! For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls–and anyone wanting to know more about them–Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played today, with personal stories from creators throughout! With a meld of history, fantasy, and memoir,…
In this eerie full-color graphic novel adaptation of one of award-winning author Mary Downing Hahn’s most popular ghost stories, mischievous siblings pretend their grandmother’s Vermont inn is haunted and awaken the real spirits who dwell there. Travis and his sister, Corey, can’t resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother’s quiet Vermont inn,…
In this eerie full-color graphic novel adaptation of one of award-winning author Mary Downing Hahn’s most popular ghost stories, mischievous siblings pretend their grandmother’s Vermont inn is haunted and awaken the real spirits who dwell there. Travis and his sister, Corey, can’t resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother’s quiet Vermont inn,…
Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year * One of NYPL’s Best Books of the Year * A Publishers Weekly “Best Book of the Year” A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator…
“Writing an essay is like catching a wave,” posits guest editor Ariel Levy. “To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water.” This year’s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage,…
From the Sibert Honor-winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. This nonfiction graphic novel explores the causes, effects, and lessons learned from a major epidemic in our past, and is the perfect tool for engaging readers of all ages,…
Super speed. Super Strength. Super annoying. Eight-year-old Wilson hates how famous his superhero family is. While their powers earn the love of his entire class, Wilson seems to only be able to earn detention. But when the evil genius, Mad Margaret, kidnaps Wilson’s family, Wilson must do everything he can to get them back, even…
From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response…
Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the…
This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight essays provide historical and contemporary examinations of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The collection benefits from hundreds of interviews with…
About the Book: Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the work of six New England cartoonists drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remarkable Daisy Turner (1883-1988) of Grafton, Vermont. Turner Family Stories presents two of Daisy’s accounts of the life of her father, Alec Turner,…
Uleyli is a princess-but she isn’t happy with all that comes with it. She’d rather daydream and create art than learn how to rule her people. When a Spanish boy, Juan Ortiz, is captured by Uleyli’s father, she intervenes on his behalf and begins to plot her escape from her village. As she dreams of…
WITCHES TRINE is the centuries-spanning story of three immortal witches: Olivia, the Scholar; Eva, the Healer; and Victoria, the Warrior. Their devotion to the Dark Arts is only surpassed by their loyalty to each other. When they find themselves in the middle of a sinister plot to raise the Antichrist, they will have to use…
NO SECRETS ARE SAFE! Detective Cedric Dustin is a cop with a future: clever, cocky, and opportunistic. So when he receives an anonymous letter accusing a major financial figure of fraud, he jumps at the opportunity to advance his position. As he investigates, however, he discovers that he’s not the only recipient of a letter…
“A complete visual package.” –Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster–a savage storm–on America’s high southern plains. The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through…
In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive turmoil and racial violence. Thirty-four people were killed, most of whom…
