New Graphic Novels & Nonfiction:
February 2026
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Fiction
Call Me Emma: One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America by Makee
Call Me Emma: One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America
by Makee

After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they've found themselves in.
Dying Inside by Pete Wentz
Dying Inside
by Pete Wentz

Immortality is entirely overrated. From Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein (Everything’s Fine), and Lisa Sterle (The Modern Witch Tarot, Witchblood) comes the graphic novel about a chronically depressed girl who’s tired of fighting for her death.
Model Five Murder: A Sci-Fi Noir by Tan Juan Gee
Model Five Murder: A Sci-Fi Noir
by Tan Juan Gee

A cyborg solves the murder of a detective who shares his same face in this sci-fi noir graphic novel.
Out of Alcatraz by Christopher Cantwell
Out of Alcatraz
by Christopher Cantwell

Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1962. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: Life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.
Spectrum by Rick Quinn
Spectrum
by Rick Quinn

Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things. Androids. Aliens. Pigs in high fashion. And a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained: elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music. She invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question.
Nonfiction
30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide by Mohammad Sabaaneh
30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide
by Mohammad Sabaaneh

A powerful graphic novel from an acclaimed Palestinian political cartoonist that archives often-censored digital footage of the realities in Gaza into enduring works of art.
Ace of Hearts: Lessons in Love from an Asexual Girl by Cooklin
Ace of Hearts: Lessons in Love from an Asexual Girl
by Cooklin

This graphic novel follows Caitlin Cook, who is asexual but does not yet fully realize it. From evangelical purity politics to the footloose college campus, Caitlin navigates different worlds each with their own sexual orthodoxies, and clumsily attempts to fit into each of them. A thoughtful and immersive coming-of-age memoir about one girl's struggle to figure out and then claim her asexual identity.
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology by null
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology
by Book Author

A comics anthology in which writers and artists from across the U.S. pay tribute to the ways food and sports endure as touchstones in the Latin American diaspora.
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