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Comics & Graphic Novels Summer & Recent Titles |
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83 Days in Mariupol : a war diary
by Don Brown
This story of senseless destruction, patriotism and grit against all odds focuses on the people of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol who stayed to defend their home against Russian forces, which came with a devastating price.
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Anaèis Nin : a sea of lies
by Lâeonie Bischoff
In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anaèis Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's erotica in the 1920s and '30s.
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Blood of the Virgin
by Sammy Harkham
The story of twenty‑seven‑year‑old Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who works for an exploitation film production company. The author brings us into the underbelly of Los Angeles during a crucial evolutionary moment in the industry from the last wheeze of the studio system to the rise of independent filmmaking.
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Girl Juice
by Benji Nate
Welcome to the Girl Juice House, home of only the hottest gang in town. Benji Nate's stylish and rambunctious sense of humor lovingly takes digs at the young and tragically hip as they navigate life, love, and the pursuit of a good time.
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Going Remote : a teacher's journey
by Adam Bessie
An English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system.
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The Gull Yettin
by Joe Kessler
The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly rendered, entirely wordless graphic novel by a contemporary comics innovator.
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The Man in the McIntosh suit
by Rina Ayuyang
The year is 1929 and Bobot is a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession.
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Stamped From the Beginning
by Joel Christian Gill
This dramatic graphic novel adaptation of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life shows how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future.
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The Talk
by Darrin Bell
This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them.
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