Yang, Gene Luen
Summary: Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches especially the high school's basketball team, the Dragons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 YANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YANGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction YangCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC YANSummary: Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 COMColomba, Elizabeth
Summary: "Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLBell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BELPesuyama, Poppy
Summary: "Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose "neither" for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends. Born into a body they hate and still reeling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mance, Ajuan Maria
Summary: "When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 MANCE, AJUAN MARIA MANSherman-Friedman, Tohar
Summary: "A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions-and sometimes violent conflict. From political protests to personal struggles with school, body image, and relationships with family and friends, Tohar Sherman-Friedman's life is an inspiring story of conflicting convictions, rebellion, and personal growth. Tohar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pauls, Cole
Summary: "Cole Pauls returns with Kwändǖr, a short story collection of Southern Tutchone and Yukon tales. Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are Pauls's most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices. Have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 PAUHogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGKobabe, Maia
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 741.5 KOB1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KOB
Durán, Cristina
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DURBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuRobbins, Trina
Summary: The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBBurgess, Rebecca
Summary: "Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURAgrimbau, Diego
Summary: When she turned thirteen years old, Anne received a gift that would change her life: a personal diary. In it, she expressed her desires, fears and hopes while living in confinement with her family during World War II. After the war, despite her early death, her diary became a shocking testimony about the persecution of Jewish people, and an invaluable contribution to the fight for human rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAHancox, Lewis
Summary: "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. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she can't quite hear him yet. In [this book],...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENShulman, Mark
Summary: "Witness to history! When World War II turned their world upside down, one Dutch teenager's family went into hiding to avoid Nazi persecution. Anne Frank become world famous for her courage, her insights, and the diary she left behind." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publisshing Group 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRABayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYSummary: "The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay, Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears reality apart. These are just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. [This book] is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA + experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2020