Graphic Novels & Manga
January - February 2026
The latest graphic novels and manga titles for teens and adults that are forthcoming or new to the library.
 
Cover of King's Maker, Volume 1 by Haga
King's Maker, Volume 1
by Haga

When Wolfgang is forced to move into the royal palace and take up his rightful seat as the fourth prince of Goldenleonard, he catches the eye of Soohyuk Shin, the son of the minister of foreign affairs. Soohyuk, forced to serve as one of the king's beloved sovereign darlings, is looking for someone to play the leading role in a daring scheme. So far, all the other princes have disappointed Soohyuk, but Wolfgang is different--and he might just be the key to overthrowing the king.

Teen Manga
Cover of Kill the Villainess, Vol. 1 by null
Kill the Villainess, Vol. 1
by Book Author

Eris Miserian knows the fate that awaits her. She'll lose her fiancâe to the heroine, poison her as an act of revenge, get caught, and be sentenced to death while her nemesis lives happily ever after--at least, that's what's supposed to happen in the novel Eris woke up in. Desperate to return to her own world, she figures her best chance to do so is by ending her life. But every time Eris tries, the universe finds a way to prevent it. Can Eris discover a way to escape the story's clutches, or is she doomed to be the villainess?

Teen Manga
Cover of Please Look After the Dragon, Vol. 1 by Yuki Higashiura
Please Look After the Dragon, Vol. 1
by Yuki Higashiura

Murakami is just your average college student--he attends class, works, and plays games on his days off. And it's a day like any other when he comes across a stray in the park near his apartment. But instead of a cute, fluffy friend, Murakami finds himself face to face with...a real-life dragon?! Her name is Ilsera, and she's on a training trip to become a fully-fledged member of her species! Her only request is that Murakami fosters her during her time in the human world. And so, Murakami somehow winds up with a strange new roommate.

Teen Manga
Cover of Manga Classics: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Manga Classics: King Lear
by William Shakespeare

I love your Majesty according to my bond; no more nor less. The aging King Lear of Britain has decided to abdicate his throne and divide his realm among his three beloved daughters. The largest share shall go to the one who loves him best - unfortunately, Lear mistakes empty, overblown flattery for true devotion. His error plunges the realm into war and drives Lear to rain-drenched madness. Manga Classics is proud to bring you an unabridged manga adaptation of Shakespeare's beloved tragedy, considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written!

Teen Manga
Cover of Abuzz by Amy Chase
Abuzz
by Amy Chase

Sparks and stingers will fly in this modern queer reimagining of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing! Shakespeare's beloved romcom Much Ado About Nothing gets a modern update with an LGBTQ cast and the same classic miscommunications! Feuding senior students Ben and Beatriz drag half of Messina High into their never-ending arguments, making things difficult as budding sweethearts Hero and Claudio are asked to pick sides in the battle. All the while, the bad kids, led by outcast DJ, are plotting to capitalize on the chaos and rule the school for themselves. With college letters and prom night on the horizon, will these students find their happy ending or feel the sting of total rejection?

Teen Graphic Novel
Cover of Fustuk: A Graphic Novel by Robert Mgrdich Apelian
Fustuk: A Graphic Novel
by Robert Mgrdich Apelian

The odd one out in a family of talented chefs, seventeen-year-old Katah and his siblings strike a deal with a powerful div to save their mother's life in exchange for a dish that rivals their late father's.

Teen Graphic Novel
Cover of Steam by Shaenon K. Garrity
Steam
by Shaenon K. Garrity

A genius humanoid escapes the university lab where she was made and gets a job at a local coffee shop in this hilarious...excellent (School Library Journal, starred review) young adult graphic novel perfect for fans of Giant Days and Heartstopper. Ruby is a genius humanoid who was grown in a secret lab at the local university, created to solve science's greatest problems. But Ruby suspects she can't fulfill her function while trapped inside, so she breaks out. Now living among humans, Ruby attempts to lie low and fit in as a barista at the university coffeehouse, Inkcap. Working there gives her plenty of opportunity to figure out what problems people need solving. And as far as she can tell, most humans' biggest problem is struggling to find happiness. And what makes them happy? Love So, Ruby uses her superpowered brain to play cupid. As Ruby sets to work pairing up the staff and regulars at Inkcap, she feels more and more human herself: she's got a community now, maybe even a crush. But the lab believes she's dangerous, and it wants her back. When pursuing her own happiness leads Ruby straight into a trap, she'll need her new motley crew of coffeehouse friends to save her from the scientist who only want to use her.

Teen Graphic Novel
Cover of Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1: Without Fear by Al Ewing
Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1: Without Fear
by Al Ewing

Without the Corps, without the ring, without the willpower, what's left is the Absolute Green Lantern! Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay have reinvented the mythology of the Green Lantern from the ground up, creating a sci-fi epic of cosmic proportions! Something strange is happening to the town of Evergreen. What looks like an alien monolith has descended, severing the town from the outside world, leaving its citizens to be...judged. But what that judgement will actually bring is anyone's guess - including Jo Mullein, the woman who seems inexplicably caught in the middle of the chaos, and Hal Jordan, who has found himself in the crosshairs of an alien force that may prove even more dangerous than the monolith itself.This top-to-bottom reinvention of the Green Lantern mythology comes from legendary creators Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay as part of DC's revolutionary Absolute Universe! Collects Absolute Green Lantern #1-6.

Adult Graphic Novel
Cover of Of Swamp & Sea Volume 1 by Mia Jay Boulton
Of Swamp & Sea Volume 1
by Mia Jay Boulton

Mercy Gray Harding's troubles all started in the swampland on the outskirts of town, where a mist wolf murdered her father. She enlists a monster hunter named Jonah to put the creature down, but the plan quickly falls apart. When the incorporeal beast tries to attack Mercy, it instead possesses her, and is bound to her body and mind. Now Mercy's human and wolfish sides grapple for control, and she is haunted by the memories of both. Jonah promises to free her from the monster, and the two set off for a cure. But the open road is full of untold danger, and her new powers come in handy. And is it Mercy or the wolf who is flirting with the handsome Jonah?

Adult Graphic Novel
Cover of 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 June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who's also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border-if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. 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.

Adult Graphic Novel
Cover of Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Caduceus Clay by Taliesin Jaffe
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Caduceus Clay
by Taliesin Jaffe

Generations of the Clay family have tended to the careful rituals in the Blooming Grove. But when corruption begins to creep in on their sacred space, the Clays depart one by one to seek answers. Soon young Clarabelle and Caduceus Clay are the only ones left, and when a dangerous burial quest falls to Caduceus, he must leave the Grove to do the family's work.

Adult Graphic Novel
Cover of I Am Their Silence by Jordi Lafebre
I Am Their Silence
by Jordi Lafebre

Eva is a brilliant psychiatrist, but this is no simple story of a clever shrink helping a patient dissect their problems. No, this story is about Eva in the throws of a bipolar episode, navigating her own spiraling mental health as she is pulled down a scandalous rabbit hole when one of her first patients and only friends has invited her to the reading of her grandmother's living will.

Adult Graphic Novel
Cover of H.P. Lovecraft's the Shadow Out of Time (Manga) by Gou Tanabe
H.P. Lovecraft's the Shadow Out of Time (Manga)
by Gou Tanabe

Professor Peaslee of Miskatonic University has been acting very strange--could he be out of his mind? No...his mind is out of him! Just because one lives in Arkham--just because one teaches there at Miskatonic University--it doesn't mean one has any interest in the occult--in the abnormal. That was always the view of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a respectable professor of political economy. Until that one Thursday in 1908, when Professor Peaslee suddenly began to see in front of him not his students in their lecture hall, but strange shapes inhabiting a grotesque chamber. He collapsed unconscious, and when he awoke, he was strange...very strange. Seemingly unable to recall his identity, the mind inside the body of Nathaniel Peaslee was oddly uninterested in the person he had been. The psychologists were baffled as he sought not to recover his old memory, but to obsessively study the world around him, travelling to distant lands, reading occult books, disturbing others with his odd perspectives on time and existence. He alienated and frightened people--his friends, his wife, even most of his children, except for his youngest son, who believed that one day Nathaniel Peaslee would come back. And then, in 1913, Professor Peaslee did come back, with no memory of his strange sabbatical, but deeply disturbed by the dreams and visions it left him with. His search for the past five years gone missing from his life will lead Peaslee to other cases of lost identity resembling his...and eventually to an ancient city in the Australian desert--from where a long-vanished race still casts their shadow out of time.

Adult Manga
Cover of Love Bullet, Vol. 1 by Inee
Love Bullet, Vol. 1
by Inee

One fateful day, Koharu is saved from an untimely end and reborn as a Cupid. Her mission: bring love to humans and earn a second chance at life. But modern problems call for modern solutions, and the Cupids of today have traded in their outdated bows and arrows for high-velocity firearms Koharu's happy to dutifully help others find love, but her eccentric mentors don't play by the book and will happily turn an argument over a love triangle into a battlefield of tactical matchmaking action.

Adult Manga
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