Featured Comics and Books
Whether you are new to comics or an avid reader, sometimes recommended reading lists can help guide you towards what to read next. Here are a few lists featuring graphic novels from the Library's collections. Remember to search the Library's catalog to discover even more graphic novels.
Graphic Novels
Featured new titles that have recently been added to the Library's collections:
Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories by Publication Date: 2024Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Parapsychology -- Comic books, strips, etc // Supernatural -- Comic books, strips, etc // Horror comic books, strips, etc
Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Publication Date: 2024Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Environmental justice -- Comic books, strips, etc // Nonprofit organizations -- Employees -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Environmentalists -- California -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Lawyers -- California -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Korean American families -- Comic books, strips, etc
The History of Japan. 16, Towards a More Diverse Society: From the Heisei Era to the Reiwa Era by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Japan -- History -- Heisei period, 1989-2019 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Comic books, strips, etc // Japan -- Social conditions -- 1989- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Universal Monsters: Dracula by Publication Date: 2024Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Physicians -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sanatoriums -- Comic books, strips, etc // Vampires -- Comic books, strips, etc
Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Pesuyama, Poppy -- Comic books, strips, etc // Artists -- Japan -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender-nonconforming people -- Japan -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc // Self-esteem -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual harassment -- Comic books, strips, etc
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Publication Date: 2023Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: Vietnamese Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Refugee camps -- Thailand -- Comic books, strips, etc // Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Comic books, strips, etc // Food -- Comic books, strips, etc
Since I Could Die Tomorrow, Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2024Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Middle-aged women -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc // Single women -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc // Midlife crisis -- Comic books, strips, etc // Aging -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Talk by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: African American children -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Discrimination in law enforcement -- Comic books, strips, etc // Police brutality -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Coming of age -- Comic books, strips, etc // Child rearing -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Parent and child -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
One Piece by Publication Date: 2009-2010Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Pirates -- Comic books, strips, etc // Swordsmen -- Comic books, strips, etc // Treasure troves -- Comic books, strips, etc // Quests (EXpeditions -- Comic books strips, etc
Don't Call It Mystery Vol. 1-2 by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: College students -- Comic books, strips, etc // Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc // Suspects (Criminal investigation) -- Comic books, strips, etc
March Comes in Like a Lion, Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Shogi -- Comic books, strips, etc // Orphans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sisters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Families -- Comic books, strips, etc // Social isolation -- Comic books, strips, etc // Interpersonal relations -- Comic books, strips, etc
Nejishiki by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Includes Subjects: Travelers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Alienation (Social psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Existentialism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Counterculture -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc // Japan -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
One More Step, Come Stand by My Side by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Includes Subjects: Princesses -- Comic books, strips, etc // Kidnapping -- Comic books, strips, etc // Stalkers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cancer -- Comic books, strips, etc // Short stories -- Comic books, strips, etc
Young Men in Love by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Young gay men -- Comic books, strips, etc // Homosexuality -- Comic books, strips, etc // Love -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lore Olympus by Publication Date: 2021-2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mythology, Greek -- Comic books, strips, etc
Until I Meet My Husband by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subject: Gay men -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc // Same-sex marriage -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc // Dating (Social customs) -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise Wa Tanin Ga Ii by Publication Date: 2022-2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Yakuza -- Comic books, strips, etc // Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc // Erotic comic books, strips, etc // Osaka (Japan) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Tokyo (Japan) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Land of the Dead: Lessons From the Underworld on Storytelling and Living by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Storytelling -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Storytelling -- Sociological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Survival -- Comic books, strips, etc
My Happy Marriage, Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Stepchildren -- Comic books, strips, etc // Stepparents -- Comic books, strips, etc // Arranged marriage -- Comic books, strips, etc
Shubeik Lubeik by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Jinn -- Comic books, strips, etc // Diseases -- Comic books, strips, etc // Social history // Depression, Mental // Magic // Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Boys -- Comic books, strips, etc // Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc // Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
The High Desert by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Music and race -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Punk rock music -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Punk culture -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // African Americans -- California -- Apple Valley -- Comic books, strips, etc
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century by Publication Date: 2023Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: African American boxers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism in sports -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism against Black people -- Comic books, strips, etc
Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Acute leukemia -- Patients -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women illustrators -- France -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Lymphoblastic leukemia
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sex role -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transgender people -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender-nonconforming people -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual minorities -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender identity // Sex role // Two-spirit people
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Elves -- Comic books, strips, etc // Magic -- Comic books, strips, etc // Demonology -- Comic books, strips, etc // Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc // Quests (Expeditions) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Artist by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Novelists, Korean -- Comic books, strips, etc // Painters -- Korea (South) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Musicians -- Korea (South) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Artists -- Korea (South) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured titles that include current discussion topics:
Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comic Anthology by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Neurodiversity // Autism // Self-acceptance
Huda F Are You? by Publication Date: 2021Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Muslims // Identity (Psychology) // High schools
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Publication Date: 2020Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp // Prisoners of war -- United States
Dragon Hoops by Publication Date: 2020Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center, the Graphic Novel Collection, and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: High school teachers -- California -- Oakland // Basketball -- Tournaments -- California -- Oakland // High schools -- California -- Oakland // Chinese Americans
Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America by Publication Date: 2020Included Subjects: Voting -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Elections -- United States -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
This Place: 150 Years Retold by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center, the Graphic Novel Collection, and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc // Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction // Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Fiction // Canada -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Canada -- History -- Juvenile fiction // Canada -- History -- Fiction
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival by Publication Date: 2019Included Subjects: Sexual abuse victims // Women
Vindication Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Police -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American men -- Comic books, strips, etc // Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hot Comb by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc // Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Salons -- Fiction
BTTM FDRS by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gentrification -- Comic books, strips, etc // Social classes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Fashion designers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Chicago (Ill.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- Comic books, strips, etc // Marijuana -- Government policy -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Drug legalization -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
This Woman's Work by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Delporte, Julie -- Comic books, strips, etc // Feminism -- Comic books, strips, etc
PTSD by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women veterans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Homeless persons -- Comic books, strips, etc // Drug abuse -- Comic books, strips, etc
Drawing on Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Domestic relations -- United States -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc // United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc // United States -- History -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc // United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures 1995-2017 by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Immigrants -- France -- Paris -- Comic books, strips, etc // Refugees -- France -- Paris -- Comic books, strips, etc
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Group identity -- Comic books, strips, etc // Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Caucasian race -- Comic books, strips, etc // Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- Comic books, strips, etc
Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life by Publication Date: 2017Included Subjects: Noncitizens -- California -- Oakland // Mexican Americans -- California -- Oakland // United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History, and Politics by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Abortion -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Abortion -- Political aspects -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Reproductive rights -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Pro-choice movement -- Comic books, strips, etc // Unwanted pregnancy -- Comic books, strips, etc // Pregnant women -- Comic books, strips, etc
I Am Alfonso Jones by Publication Date: 2017Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Black lives matter movement -- Comic books, strips, etc // Police shootings -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American teenagers -- Death -- Comic books, strips, etc // Justice -- Fiction // New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured titles related to the subject of history (non-fiction and fiction):
Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour : A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Japanese Americans -- 20th century // War and radio broadcasting // World War, 1939-1945
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book by Publication Date: 2021Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: America -- Colonization -- Comic books, strips, etc // Government, Resistance to -- America -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Indigenous peoples -- America -- Government relations -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Black Panther Party by Publication Date: 2021Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government // Black power // United States // Black Panther Party
Year of the Rabbit by Publication Date: 2020Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Tian, 1975- -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc // Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Comic books, strips, etc // Genocide survivors -- Cambodia -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cambodia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Big Black: Stand at Attica by Publication Date: 2020Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Smith, Frank, 1933-2004 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Attica Correctional Facility -- Comic books, strips, etc // Prison riots -- New York (State) -- Attica -- Comic books, strips, etc // Torture -- New York (State) -- Attica -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Invisible Empire: Madge Oberholtzer and the Unmasking of the Ku Klux Klan by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Oberholtzer, Madge, 1896-1925 // Stephenson, David Curtis, 1891-1966 // Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
La Voz de M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo. Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Jaurigue, Ramon -- Comic books, strips, etc // Yaqui Indians -- Government relations -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Political activists -- Comic books, strips, etc // Tucson (Ariz.) -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
Isadora by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Dancers -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Ballet dancers -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Vanni: A Family's Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Refugees -- Psychology // War crimes -- Psychology // Families -- Psychological aspects // Stress (Psychology) -- Psychology // Sri Lanka
Grass by Publication Date: 2019Location:Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Comfort women -- Comic books, strips, etc // Child slaves -- Korea -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Child sexual abuse -- Korea -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Comic books, strips, etc // World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Comic books, strips, etc // Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 -- Comic books, strips, etc
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Painters -- Italy -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Night Witches by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation) -- Comic books, strips, etc // World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women air pilots -- Comic books, strips, etc
This Land Is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Nation-building // Utopias // States, Small
Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street) -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American entertainers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Comic books, strips, etc // Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Che: A Graphic Biography by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Guevara, Che, 1928-1967 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Guerrillas -- Latin America -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Other Side by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Soldiers -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hip Hop Family Tree. 1, 1970s-1981 by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Hip-hop -- Comic books, strips, etc // Rap (Music) -- History and criticism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Rap musicians -- Comic books, strips, etc // Turntablism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Music -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American youth -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American musicians -- Comic books, strips, etc
Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mansah, Abina -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Comic books, strips, etc // Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women slaves -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women slaves -- Ghana -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women slaves -- Violence against -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sex crimes -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sex role -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gangs -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Community activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sephardim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Nanjing: The Burning City by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Strange Fruit Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: African Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Heroes -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // African Americans -- History -- Anecdotes -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American celebrities -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by Publication Date: 2012Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Chinese -- Canada -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Chinese -- United States -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- Canada -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- United States -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Chinese -- Canada -- History // Chinese -- United States -- History
Who Is Ana Mendieta? by Publication Date: 2011Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured memoirs and personal stories:
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Petroleum workers -- Canada -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women employees -- Canada -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychic trauma -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual harassment -- Comic books, strips, etc
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Publication Date: 2022Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Gao, Laura // Chinese Americans
Run by Publication Date: 2021Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Lewis, John, 1940-2020 // Legislators -- United States // African American legislators
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Publication Date: 2021Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Physical fitness // Fads
My Body in Pieces by Publication Date: 2021Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Body image
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Publication Date: 2020Copies located in the Graphic Novel Collection and Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Gill, Joel Christian -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American cartoonists // African Americans -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc // Violence // Coming of age
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Graphic Novel Collection and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racially mixed people -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Filipino Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Egyptian Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // American Dream -- Comic books, strips, etc
They Called Us Enemy by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Graphic Novel Collection and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Takei, George, 1937- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc // Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Comic books, strips, etc // World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Cartoons and comics // Japanese -- United States -- History -- Cartoons and comics // California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Comic books, strips, etc
More Than Money by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mexican American women artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Mexican American women authors -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Super Late Bloomer by Publication Date: 2018Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Kaye, Julia, 1988- -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transgender people -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Male-to-female transsexuals -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transgender artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender identity -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sex change -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Krug, Nora -- Comic books, strips, etc // German American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // German American authors -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Collective memory -- Germany -- Comic books, strips, etc // National socialism -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Jacob, Mira, 1973- -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women authors, American -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asian American authors -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc // Hispanic Americans -- Biography
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Publication Date: 2017Included Subjects: Refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asian Americans -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Vietnamese Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Sattouf, Riad -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cartoonists -- France -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Middle East -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Snapshots of a Girl by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Sezen, Beldan, 1967- -- Comic books, strips, etc // Lesbians -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map by Publication Date: 2022Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Public health // Health education
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Wong, Teresa, 1976- -- Health -- Comic books, strips, etc // Postpartum depression -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Mothers -- Canada -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
States of Mind by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Guillon, Emilie -- Comic books, strips, etc // Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc // Manic-depressive illness -- Comic books, strips, etc // Comic books, strips, etc -- France -- Translations into English
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Autism spectrum disorders -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women -- Mental health -- Comic books, strips, etc
About Betty's Boob by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mastectomy -- Patients -- Comic books, strips, etc // Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc // Body image in women -- Comic books, strips, etc // Burlesque (Theater) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lighter Than My Shadow by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Eating disorders -- Patients -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Eating disorders -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc // Eating disorders -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Comic books, strips, etc // Child abuse -- Comic books, strips, etc // Social Topics -- Sexual Abuse -- Young adult nonfiction -- Comic books, strips, etc
Imagine Wanting Only This by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Radtke, Kristen -- Psychology -- Comic books, strips, etc // Loss (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Publication Date: 2017Included Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's Through the Looking Glass by Publication Date: 2016Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography // Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Biography // Caregivers -- Biography
Wrinkles by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Alzheimer's disease -- Comic books, strips, etc // Old age -- Comic books, strips, etc
Ghosts by Publication Date: 2016Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Teacher Resource Center/Juv.
Included Subjects: Cystic fibrosis in children -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cystic fibrosis in children -- Juvenile fiction // Cystic fibrosis -- Fiction
The Story of My Tits by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Second Avenue Caper by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Comic books, strips, etc // AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Comic books, strips, etc // AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Comic books, strips, etc // AIDS activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Nineteen eighties -- Comic books, strips, etc // Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc // New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir by Publication Date: 2013Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Georges, Nicole J -- Comic books, strips, etc // Schlessinger, Laura -- Comic books, strips, etc // Identity (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Family secrets -- Comic books, strips, etc // Identity -- Comic, books, strips, etc
Epileptic by Publication Date: 2005Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Epileptics -- Comic books, strips, etc // Epilepsy -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured adaptations of prose literature (fiction and non-fiction):
Graceling: The Graphic Novel by Publication Date: 2021Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Fantasy // Kings, queens, rulers, etc // Friendship // Girls -- Conduct of life // Murder // Voyages and travels
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Publication Date: 2020Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: African American teenage boys // Ghost stories // Homicide // Revenge // Brothers
The Handmaid's Tale by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale -- Adaptations // Misogyny -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Iliad by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Achilles (Mythological character) -- Juvenile fiction // Achilles (Mythological character) -- Fiction // Homer. Iliad -- Adaptations // Trojan War -- Juvenile fiction // Trojan War -- Fiction // Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
Frankenstein by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Scientists -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // High school students -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // Haunted houses -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Jews -- Persecutions -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women -- Biography -- Cartoons and comics
American Gods Volume 1: Shadows by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gods -- Comic books, strips, etc // Widowers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Bodyguards -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American men -- Comic books, strips, etc // Ex-convicts -- Comic books, strips, etc
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Trials (Rape) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Girls -- Comic books, strips, etc // Southern States -- Comic books, strips, etc // Alabama -- Comic books, strips, etc
Moby Dick by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Whaling ships -- Comic books, strips, etc // Ship captains -- Comic books, strips, etc // Mentally ill -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychological fiction // Sea stories // Whaling -- Comic books, strips, etc
Beowulf by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Beowulf, King of the Geats -- Comic books, strips, etc // Epic poetry, English (Old) -- Adaptations
Studs Terkel's Working by Publication Date: 2009Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Working class -- United States -- Pictorial works // Working class -- United States -- Interviews // Working class -- United States -- Attitudes
Featured titles related to the Superhero genre:
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Graphic Novel) by Publication Date: 2021Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Good and evil // Missing persons // Racially mixed youth // Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Superman Smashes the Klan by Publication Date: 2020Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: Asian American teenagers // Identity // Historical Fiction // Immigrants // Justice // Superheroes // Social issue comics
Naomi: Season One by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Ability // Adopted children // African American women // Family secrets // Superheroes // Teenage girls // Women superheroes
Mister Miracle by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Mister Miracle (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // Big Barda (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // Darkseid (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction // Escape artists -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction
X-Men: Grand Design by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Included Subjects: Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // Science fiction comic books, strips, etc // Mutation (Biology) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc // Imaginary wars and battles -- Comic books, strips, etc
Kismet, Man of Fate. Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Black Panther (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // Bodyguards -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women, Black -- Comic books, strips, etc // Kings and rulers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Royal houses -- Africa -- Comic books, strips, etc
Black Panther Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Black Panther (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Kings and rulers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Insurgency -- Comic books, strips, etc // Blacks -- Comic books, strips, etc // Africa -- Comic books, strips, etc
Black Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
DC Comics: Bombshells by Publication Date: 2016-2018Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Women superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // World War, 1939-1945 -- Cartoons and comics
Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Marvel, Ms. (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // Muslim women -- Comic books, strips, etc // Pakistani Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Teenage girls -- Comic books, strips, etc
Wonder Woman by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Wonder Woman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Dark Knight Saga by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Batman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Watchmen by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Superhero comic books, strips, etc // Mystery comic books, strips, etc
X-Men: Magneto Testament by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: X-Men (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Jews -- Germany -- Comic books, strips, etc // Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Batwoman: Hydrology by Publication Date: 2012Location: Arne Nixon Center.
Included Subjects: Batwoman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Batgirl by Publication Date: 2012-2015Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Batgirl (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
Marvel 1602 by Publication Date: 2012Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Seventeenth century -- Comic books, strips, etc // Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology by Publication Date: 2012Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States // Asian Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Superhero comic books, strips, etc
Featured titles related to the SciFi and Fantasy genres:
Home, Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2021Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Immigrants -- United States // Guatemalans -- United States // Mexican-American Border Region // Guatémaltèques -- États-Unis // Familles immigrantes // United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The Black Mage by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc // Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc // Magic -- Comic books, strips, etc // Wizards -- Comic books, strips, etc // Inclusive education -- Comic books, strips, etc // Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Graphic novels -- United States
Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Girls // Imaginary wars and battles // Insurgency
Goddess Mode by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Women superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc // Artificial intelligence -- Comic books, strips, etc // Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Imaginary wars and battles -- Comic books, strips, etc
Alienation by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Virtual reality -- Comic books, strips, etc // Stripteasers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Artificial organs -- Comic books, strips, etc // Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings -- Comic books, strips, etc // Emigration and immigration -- Comic books, strips, etc
Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Middle-aged persons -- Comic books, strips, etc // Fantasy games -- Comic books, strips, etc // Best friends -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychic trauma -- Comic books, strips, etc
Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Harlem Renaissance -- Comic books, strips, etc // African American families -- Comic books, strips, etc // Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Racism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc // Nineteen twenties -- Comic books, strips, etc // Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Farmhand Vol. 1: Reap What Was Sown by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Farm life -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- Comic books, strips, etc
Crowded Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Crowd funding -- Comic books, strips, etc // Dystopias -- Comic books, strips, etc // Bodyguards -- Comic books, strips, etc // Attempted assassination -- Comic books, strips, etc
Infidel by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Xenophobia -- Comic books, strips, etc // Haunted houses -- Comic books, strips, etc // Muslim women -- Comic books, strips, etc
Victor Lavalle's Destroyer by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc // Revenge -- Comic books, strips, etc // Mothers and sons -- Comic books, strips, etc
Prism Stalker Volume 1 by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Imaginary places -- Comic books, strips, etc // Interplanetary voyages -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychic ability -- Comic books, strips, etc // Indentured servants -- Comic books, strips, etc
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Cooks -- Comic books, strips, etc
Abbott by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: African American women journalists -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Comic books, strips, etc // Murder -- Investigation -- Comic books, strips, etc // Criminal investigation -- Comic books, strips, etc // Detroit (Mich.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
V for Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Totalitarianism -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Ghost in the Shell by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Cyborgs -- Comic books, strips, etc // Hackers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cyber intelligence (Computer security) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cyberterrorism -- Comic books, strips, etc // Terrorism -- Prevention -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychic ability -- Comic books, strips, etc // Undercover operations -- Comic books, strips, etc
Akira. Part 1, Tetsuo by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Teenagers -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Comic books, strips, etc // Motorcycle gangs -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Comic books, strips, etc
Monstress. Volume 1, Awakening by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Teenage girls -- Comic books, strips, etc // Psychic ability -- Comic books, strips, etc // Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asia -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Bitch Planet. Book One, Extraordinary Machine by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Women prisoners -- Comic books, strips, etc // Penal colonies -- Comic books, strips, etc
Saga Book 1 by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Families -- Comic books, strips, etc // Extraterrestrial beings -- Comic books, strips, etc // Parents of exceptional children -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Wake by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc
Uzumaki by Publication Date: 2013Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Spirals -- Comic books, strips, etc // Death -- Comic books, strips, etc // Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured titles related to the subject of science:
Hawking by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center, the Graphic Novel Collection, and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients // People with disabilities // Physicists // Great Britain // Biographical comics
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Travel -- South America -- Comic books, strips, etc // Scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Scientific expeditions -- South America -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Turing, Alan, 1912-1954 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Cryptographers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Audubon: On the Wings of the World by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America -- Comic books, strips, etc // Naturalists -- Cartoons and comics
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Climatic changes -- Comic books, strips, etc // Human ecology -- Comic books, strips, etc
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists by Publication Date: 2009Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Women scientists -- Comic books, strips, etc // Science -- Comic books, strips, etc
Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb by Publication Date: 2001Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 -- Comic books, strips, etc // Szilard, Leo -- Comic books, strips, etc // Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc // Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured titles that include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and more representation:
Coming Back by Publication Date: 2021Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Fantasy // Love // Magic // Lesbians
The Magic Fish by Publication Date: 2020Location: Arne Nixon Center
Included Subjects: Vietnamese Americans // Parent and child // Fairy tales // Books and reading // Gay Asian Americans // Gay and lesbian youth // Identity (Psychology) // Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Publication Date: 2019Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center, the Graphic Novel Collection, and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Gender-nonconforming people -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asexual people -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual minority youth -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual minorities -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asexuality (Sexual orientation) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc // Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cosmoknights (Book One) by Publication Date: 2019Location: Teacher Resource Center/Curr
Included Subjects: Interpersonal relations // Government, Resistance to // Knights and knighthood // Lesbians // Life on other planets
Bury the Lede by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Women journalists -- Comic books, strips, etc // Minority journalists -- Comic books, strips, etc // Female offenders -- Comic books, strips, etc // Suspects (Criminal investigation) -- Comic books, strips, etc // Suspense comic books, strips, etc // Boston (Mass.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Death Threat by Publication Date: 2019Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Transphobia -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transgender people -- Crimes against -- Comic books, strips, etc // Hate mail -- Comic books, strips, etc // Anonymous letters -- Comic books, strips, etc
On a Sunbeam by Publication Date: 2018Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center, the Graphic Novel Collection, and the Teacher Resource Center/Curr.
Included Subjects: Lesbians // Boarding schools // Non-binary people // Genderqueer people // Outer space
We're Still Here by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Transgender people -- Comic books, strips, etc // Transsexuals -- Comic books, strips, etc // Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc
Moth and Whisper Vol. 1 by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Thieves -- Comic books, strips, etc // Missing persons -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gender-nonconforming youth -- Comic books, strips, etc // Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
Bingo Love by Publication Date: 2018Copies located in the Arne Nixon Center and the Graphic Novel Collection.
Included Subjects: Bingo -- Comic books, strips, etc // Grandmothers -- Comic books, strips, etc // Lesbians -- Comic books, strips, etc
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Publication Date: 2018Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gays -- Comic books, strips, etc // Communism -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Sunstone: Book One by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Lesbians -- Comic books, strips, etc // Sexual dominance and submission -- Comic books, strips, etc
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Publication Date: 2017Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Lesbians -- Japan -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Loneliness -- Case studies -- Comic books, strips, etc // Single women -- Japan -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc // Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Case studies -- Comic books, strips, etc // Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc
Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gay men -- Comic books, strips, etc // Bands (Music) -- Comic books, strips, etc // San Francisco (Calif.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Active Voice the Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends by Publication Date: 2016Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Enos, P. Kristen -- Comic books, strips, etc // University of California, Irvine -- Students -- Comic books, strips, etc // Lesbian college students -- California -- Orange County -- Comic books, strips, etc // Asian American college students -- California -- Orange County -- Comic books, strips, etc // Gay college students -- California -- Orange County -- Comic books, strips, etc // Women political activists -- California -- Orange County -- Comic books, strips, etc
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal by Publication Date: 2015Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Gay men -- Comic books, strips, etc // Male friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc // Automobile travel -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Snackies by Publication Date: 2014Location: Graphic Novel Collection
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc
Books on Comics
Featured books on comics that have recently been added to the Library's collections:
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head by Publication Date: 2023Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- History -- 20th century // Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Publication Date: 2024Included Subjects: Motion picture studios -- United States -- History // Superhero films // Science fiction films // Marvel Studios -- History
Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future by Publication Date: 2016Included Subjects: American Studies // Criticism and interpretation // History // Language & Literature // Latin American Studies // Popular culture
Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts: Marvel, Diversity, and the Twenty-First-Century Superhero by Publication Date: 2021Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
Good White Queers? Racism and Whiteness in Queer U.S. Comics by Publication Date: 2021Included Subjects: Queer comic books, strips, etc // Queer theory // Racism // White people -- Race identity
Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books by Publication Date: 2020Location: Popular Reading Collection
Included Subjects: African American cartoonists -- History // Cartoonists -- United States
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America by Publication Date: 2020Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- Latin America -- History and criticism // Latin America
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability by Publication Date: 2019Included Subjects: Graphic novels-History and criticism // LITERARY CRITICISM // Superheroes
Worth a Thousand Words: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Visual and Verbal Literacy by Publication Date: 2019Included Subjects: Graphic novels in education // Visual literacy -- Study and teaching
Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics by Publication Date: 2019Included Subjects: Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism // Self-perception in art // Narrative art -- Themes, motives
Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing and Creating Comics by Publication Date: 2018Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee by Publication Date: 2019Location: Popular Reading Collection
Included Subjects: Lee, Stan, 1922-2018 // Marvel Comics Group // Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography // Comic books, strips, etc -- Authorship // Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives by Publication Date: 2018Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism // Graphic novels -- History and criticism // Animals in literature // Human-animal relationships in literature
Comics and Memory in Latin America by Publication Date: 2017Included Subjects: National characteristics, Latin American, in literature // Comic books, strips, etc -- Latin America -- History and criticism // Graphic novels -- Latin America -- History and criticism // Collective memory in literature // Popular culture and literature -- Latin America
Featured books on the Superhero genre:
Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe by Publication Date: 2017Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Marvel Comics Group // Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // Storytelling in mass media // Motion pictures and comic books // Comic strip characters in motion pictures
Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 by Publication Date: 2015Included Subjects: Feminism in literature // Women in literature // Bondage (Sexual behavior) in literature
Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Publication Date: 2014Included Subjects: Wonder Woman (Fictitious character) // Women in literature // Gender identity in literature // Literature and society -- United States
The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero by Publication Date: 2014Included Subjects: Captain America (Fictitious character) // Virtues in literature // Patriotism in literature // Superheroes in literature // Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do? by Publication Date: 2013Included Subjects: Superman (Fictitious character) // Philosophy in literature // Comic books, strips, etc -- Moral and ethical aspects
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry by Publication Date: 2012Included Subjects: Spider-Man (Fictitious character) // Comic books, strips, etc -- Moral and ethical aspects // Superheroes in literature // Superhero films -- History and criticism // Philosophy in literature // Philosophy in motion pictures
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film by Publication Date: 2011"This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes addressed include Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Invisible Woman and the X-Men, and topics covered include American wars, conflicts, and public policy."
Featured books on the research and/or critique of various identities represented in the comic book medium:
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation by Publication Date: 2016Included Subjects: Comic Book // Treatment of Gender // Heroine // Compared to Film // Dramatic Arts // Film // United States
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art by Publication Date: 2015Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States // African Americans in literature // African American cartoonists
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books by Publication Date: 2014Included Subjects: Race in literature // Gender identity in literature
The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel by Publication Date: 2014Included Subjects: Judaism and literature // Graphic novels -- Religious aspects // Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature // Jewish literature -- History and criticism
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation by Publication Date: 2013Includes Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States // African American cartoonists // African Americans in popular culture // Race in literature
Super Black: American Popular Culture and Black Superheroes by Publication Date: 2011Included Subjects: American Literature // Treatment of African American Superhero // Relationship to African American Identity // Sociopolitical Context // Compared to Film
Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle by Publication Date: 2010Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism // Multiculturalism in literature
Graven Images:Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels by Publication Date: 2010Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- Religious aspects
Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study by Publication Date: 2008Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // Indians in literature // Indians in art
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Publication Date: 2001Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Included Subjects: Milestone Media Inc -- History // Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
Featured books on the history of the comic book medium:
The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II by Publication Date: 2016Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war // National characteristics, American, in literature // Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Publication Date: 2016Included Subjects: American Literature // By African American Cartoonists // Relationship to Historical Context
God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga by Publication Date: 2009Included Subjects: Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation // Comic books, strips, etc -- Japan -- History and criticism
Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America by Publication Date: 2009Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States // Comic books, strips, etc -- Political aspects -- United States // Cold War -- Influence
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist by Publication Date: 2008Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Femmes artistes -- États-Unis -- Biographies // African American women cartoonists -- Biography
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by Publication Date: 2008Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History -- 20th century // Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States
Rebel Visions: Underground Comix Revolution, 1963-1975 by Publication Date: 2002Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Underground comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism // Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography // American wit and humor, Pictorial -- History and criticism // Erotic comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism // Caricatures and cartoons -- United States -- History and criticism
From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of [Women's] Comics from Teens to Zines by Publication Date: 1999Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // Women -- Comic books, strips, etc // Girls in popular culture -- United States
Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code by Publication Date: 1998Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // Comic books and children -- United States // Censorship -- United States // Popular culture -- United States
Comic Books As History: The Narrative of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar by Publication Date: 1989Location: Lower Level
Included Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc -- United States -- History and criticism // Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
