Okupe, Roye
Summary: Iyanu, a teenage orphan with no recollection of her past, suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities spoken of in the folklore of her people. It is these abilities that are the key to bringing back an "age of wonders," as Iyanu begins her journey to save a world on the brink of destruction! The Corrupt--cursed wildfire and strange, divine beasts--are determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 IYAAbouet, Marguerite
Summary: "Our favorite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast! Akissi and her posse are still wreaking havoc wherever they go. Join her as she tackles skeletons, plays matchmaker with mixed results, dreads moving to the wolf-infested wilds of Paris, and writes poetry, which stinks."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ABOAbouet, Marguerite
Summary: Collects the adventures of Akissi, a young West African girl who is always getting into trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC ABOSummary: "An anthology of African folktales playfully interpreted by modern cartoonists."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2018
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Summary: This popular West African tale follows the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NUU (Graphic Novel)Abouet, Marguerite
Summary: "The plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis--the prettiest girl in school, and evade a witch doctor's potion."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd. 2019
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Summary: "In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.974 SMIBrown, Don
Summary: Presents a graphic account of the events of the influenza epidemic of 1918, detailing the exceptionally violent spread of the disease worldwide and what made it so deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.2 BROBouchard, Mark.
Summary: "Down-on-their-luck exterminator Sal Hernandez is sick of long hours, living in their work van, and ready to reconcile with their estranged partner. The only thing standing in their way is one last shift. What seems like a routine job is anything but, and when a proselytizing mass of flesh abducts Sal's newest coworker, Luke, an extermination job quickly turns into a rescue mission. Freshly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOUGilbert, Julie
Summary: "With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Brown, Don
Summary: A graphic novel account of the giant dust storms in the Midwest in the 1930s discusses the ecological and agricultural damage caused by the storms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BROJolley, Dan
Summary: When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOLSherman-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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Velma's brothers return with a cure for the nanite plague that has devastated humanity in the shocking final volume of Scooby Apocalypse! But have the Dinkley siblings arrived too late to help Mystery, Inc. prevent the rise of the Nanite King? Fred, dead but reanimated by nanites, struggles to prove to Daphne that he still loves her. Velma and Shaggy's relationship becomes even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SCOBenson, Koni
Summary: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, and public services in Cape Town, South Africa, over the last fifty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 BENSummary: "A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Pennsylvania State University Press/Graphic Mundi 2021
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Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2006
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUTaylor, Tom
Summary: Six hundred million people. That's how many fall victim when a mysterious techno-organic virus is unleased on Earth. Six hundred million infected. Six hundred million turned into mindless, rampaging killers bent on death and destruction. And that's just the beginning. Cities. Nations. Undersea kingdoms and paradise islands. One by one, they fall to the monstrous hordes. Now only Superman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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Summary: Finally reunited, Yorick and Ampersand are on a boat to China headed for a reunion with Yorick's lost fiancée in Paris. Meanwhile, Dr. Mann and Rose are close to discovering what caused the plague, but what they find in a lab in Hong Kong is something none of them expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2007
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome-with the apparent exception of one young man and his male pet. This "gendercide" instantaneously exterminated 48% of the global population, or approximately 2.9 billion men. Now, aided by the mysterious Agent 355, the last human male Yorick Brown must contend with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUConyngham, Richard
Summary: "All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana Media 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 968.73 CONEckartsberg, Benjamin von
Summary: "In the near future, the "White Plague" has almost completely decimated humanity, and civilization is only a sweet memory. The world as a whole has become a danger zone, where survival is only possible within towns or fortified villages. Enter orphaned brothers Zach and Archer Goodwoody, troublemaking teens who have just arrived at Fort Apache, and about to learn the hard rules of integration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNGiffen, Keith
Summary: "The loss of one of one of the most beloved team members is just the beginning in Scooby Apocalypse Volume 5. And if they don't get over their grief in a hurry, Scooby and the gang are going to have to bury a lot more of their friends...if there's anything left to bury! Months after one of their own made the ultimate sacrifice, the surviving members of Mystery Inc. have carved out a new life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2019
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Summary: In a zombie wasteland of unknown origin, Troop 65 marshals onwards in the hopes of finding their families in Seattle, the nearest logical evacuation location. After a difficult journey by land and river, they make a stop in a suburban town that serves as ground zero of a battle between a corporate office that may have caused the apocalypse and the survivors staying in a nearby casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018