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Series
My solo exchange diary volume Prequel
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist's burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the tenets of artistry and story-telling inherent in the medium. Hart examines what makes a graphic memoir great, and shows you how to do it. With two dozen professional examples and a deep-dive into his own story, Hart encourages readers to hone their signature style in the best way...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the same time entirely its own.
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... but she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point.
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Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Drawn in the style of diary comics with an upbeat, adorable flair, this is a charming tale about Chii, a woman assigned male at birth. Her story starts with her childhood and follows the ups and downs of exploring her sexuality, gender, and transition—as well as falling in love with a man who's head over heels for her. Now they want to get married, so Chii's about to embark on a new adventure: becoming a bride!
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator's Emma Fick's epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway--from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow--including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Retrofit Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Summer Pierre takes us on a journey through the soundtracks that shaped her. Through mix tapes, boyfriends, late nights in Boston folk clubs, and ill-fated cross-country road trips, Pierre weaves a moving meditation on music, memory, and identity. --from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Page Two Books
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn’t wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends to support her, she picked a sperm donor and was on her way. But Myriam’s journey was far from straightforward. She experienced the soaring highs and devastating lows of becoming pregnant and then losing her babies......
8) Fart school
Author
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mel imagines collaborating with other artists in a vibrant community, honing her craft, and becoming an accomplished artist. But it turns out that art school isn't quite the same in real life. Based on the author's experience attending art school in the early 2000s, this funny, heartfelt book will resonate with anyone with a youthful dream--or a DeviantArt account."-- Publisher's website.
9) Night shift
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"This book is the result of my having spent most of my adult life living through periods of depressive illness"--End pages.
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. A true story of how love and vegetarianism can triumph over all else.
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Graphic novel that tells the story of Marcela, a young heritage Spanish speaker growing up in Michigan, as she learns formal Spanish in school, deals with the embarrassment of not living up to expectations, and struggles with her identity as a young Latina. Illustrations by the author's younger brother, Andrés Garcés"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"California, 1991. All his life, people have told Jeff Buckley how much he looks like his father, the famous '60s folksinger he barely knew. But Jeff believes he has gifts of his own: a rare, octave-spanning voice and a songwriting genius that has only started to show itself. After he falls in love with a mysterious girl in New York, he sets out to make a name for himself outside his father's shadow. What follows are six turbulent years of music,...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Language
English
Description
When artist Natalie Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California. This autobiographical how-to graphic novel explores the highest highs and lowest lows of pursuing a dream in animation. Brushed with a dose of humor and illustrated advice about salaries, studio culture,...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
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Description
My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria...
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Language
English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Sep 2023 - Banned Books
Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em.
Now, Gender Queer is here.
Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this third volume, (1985-1987), Riad's mother, fed up with the grinding reality of daily life in the village, decides she cannot take it any longer. When she resolves to move back to France, young Riad sees his father torn between his wife's aspirations and the weight of family traditions.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are in agreement on his future. Colin feels differently. This touching graphic memoir explores the story of how a young change maker learned to find himself and never compromise. How the right decision...
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