Shiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIShulman, Mark
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. Franklin's research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: "Welcome to Corpse Talk, the chat show with a difference - all of the guests are dead! Meet your host, comic book artist Adam Murphy, as he interviews eighteen ground-breaking scientists throughout history. Discover what happened to Galileo when he suggested that the Earth goes around the Sun, and why Archimedes jumped out of his bath and ran naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!" This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 920 MURSimonson, Louise
Summary: The Queen of Techworld, afraid that Snow White will supplant her as the smartest scientist, exiles the child--but the robots that she repairs save her and help her defeat the evil queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: "Today most people travel in vehicles powered by fossil fuels. But what will transportation look like 30 years from now? Will people ride in cars that drive themselves? Will the flying cars from sci-fi films become a reality? How will advancements in transportation help reduce climate change? In this nonfiction graphic novel, readers can take a trip with Max Axiom and the Society of Super...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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Summary: "Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster--and the fouler beast who created him--to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro he is known for. Also included are six tales of Oshikiri--a high school student who lives in a decaying mansion connected to a haunted parallel world. Uncanny doppelgangers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2018
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2014
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC LEERemender, Rick
Summary: Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: he has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality with his creation, the Pillar. But something went wrong, and now Grant and his team are lost, barreling through the boundless expanses of the Eververse, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLAInagaki, Riichiro
Summary: Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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Summary: Graphic novel treatment of Mary Shelley's classic novel about a scientist who brings a monster to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parramón 2009
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Coker, Shobo.
Summary: What strange secrets lie in the mysterious town of Buckhead, USA? An astonishing Afrofuturist series from Shobo Coker (Outcasts of Jupiter) and George Kambadais (The Black Ghost) that blends the immigrant experience, African myth, and weird science in Small Town USA. Toba and his mother, a renowned scientist, have just immigrated to the US from Nigeria. But instead of living in the Big City...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2022
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Summary: Junior explorers Rocco and Olivia join Fabien Cousteau and his research team on an icebreaker in the Arctic Circle, seeking the rare dumbo octopus. Inserts include facts about the effects of climate change, people and animals of the Arctic, and ships thathave explored the area.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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Summary: Bella, twelve, and Marcus, thirteen, join Fabien Cousteau's research team off the coasts of South Africa and Australia as they try to find and tag an extraordinarily large great white shark. Inserts include facts about sharks and other marine animals, equipment used by researchers studying sharks, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2019
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Summary: A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family. When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022
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Summary: Scatterbrained King Cornelius and his spirited daughter, Bing, investigate a mystery at the top of Mount Kazoo, where they discover an evil genius is planning a diabolical experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEUStarks, Kyle
Summary: This volume features more adventures of genius scientist Rick Sanchez and his timid grandson Morty Smith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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Summary: "Our heroic teen science prodigies are back for a new mission with the Curie Society, an elite secret organization where brilliant women can pursue the furthest reaches of their intellect, and this time they face a threat more serious and more sinister than anything they've encountered before! Maya, Taj, and Simone are supposed to be spending their summer broadening their horizons, but their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2024