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Author
Series
Super Dweeb volume 5
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When super-schoolkid Andy draws a mysterious map with his atomic pencil, he accidently unleashes a powerful enemy. It's DWEEB versus DORK in his most epic adventure yet!"--Back cover.
3) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
4) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher....
5) Tomboy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age in this anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
6) Erased: 5
Author
Series
Erased volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"While Satoru was "betting time" asleep in his coma, what became of the lives his childhood friends lived without him? This special extra volume of Erased checks in on the lives of Satoru's friends and the bonds they wove thanks to the chances at life his "revival" gave them"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Andy wishes that he had awesome powers like the heroes of his homemade comic stories. But instead, he's stuck in the real world, where he has an annoying little brother, a super-weird teacher ... and everyone says he's a total dweeb. Then one day, he discovers an oversized, glowing pencil on a school trip to the local toxic waste dump. He starts sketching and finds that he can redraw reality.
8) Portugal
Author
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is not Portuguese himself and is a foreigner there, so many elements are familiar to him. Meeting its lively citizens, full...
Author
Series
Super Dweeb volume 3
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Andy may seem like an ordinary dweeb, but he has an incredible secret. When he draws a picture with his ATOMIC PENCIL, it comes to life! And with awesome power comes awesome sneakiness! Andy wants to take the day off school to see the new Gamma Guys movie. His ingenious plan is to draw a clone of himself. There's only one problem: His carbon copy doesn't much like taking orders! Look out, it seems like Andy's really met his match!
Author
Series
Junkyard Joe volume 1-6
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The world knows Junkyard Joe from the comic strip by recently retired cartoonist Muddy Davis, but the truth stretches back to the Vietnam War. It was there that the tragedies of combat and visions of a strange robot solider that saved his life still haunt him. However, dreams become reality when Joe mysteriously shows up on Muddy's doorstep, warning us of a new and impending war.
11) Bad friends
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
Español
Description
"Bienvenidos al club de comics de Supergatito, donde Aleta, Moni y yo, Peque Pedrito (PP), introducimos a veintiun bebes rana revoltosos, graciosos y talentos al arte de hacer comics. A medida que la historia se desarrolle con sus contratiempos y situaciones chistosas, los lectores podran ver el avance, los errores y las mejoras que acompanan a la practica y a la perseverancia. Los lectores de todas las edades se inspiraran para sonar sus propias...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
15) Chunky
Author
Series
Chunky volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hudi needs to lose weight, according to his doctors. Concerned about the serious medical issue Hudi had when he was younger, his parents push him to try out for sports. Hudi would rather do anything else, but then he meets Chunky, his imaginary friend and mascot. Together, they decide to give baseball a shot. As the only Mexican and Jewish kid in his neighborhood, Hudi has found the cheerleader he never had. Baseball doesn't go well (unless getting...
Author
Series
Persepolis volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The comic club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich quick that causes a lot of commotion and emotion. And when faced with rejections, the friends try and try again to stay true to their vision. To top it off, a surprise visitor comes to class to stir things up. Will a desire for money and power cloud Naomi's purpose? Is it quitting time? Will the club...
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstrter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others. As editor The Kao writes in the book's introduction, 'My...
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