Azuma, Kiyohiko
Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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Summary: "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MYMcGowan, Jed
Summary: A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America. Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home. Using spore-like technology to read the minds of his hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will, one of his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCGJohnson, Mat
Summary: "A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHBourdain, Anthony
Summary: "On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOUTsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Nejishiki represents the pinnacle of avant-garde manga. Originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in 1968, the title story marks cult cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge's radical turn to dreams, surrealism, and existential horror. Tsuge's literary landscapes were once lush and inviting; now they are shadowy and haunted. His cheery travelers have lost their innocence; they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUDrnaso, Nick
Summary: "When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DRNDeveney, Jean-Christophe
Summary: "For the first time in English, the work of master Haruki Murakami is available in manga form. In this collection you'll find striking full-color adaptations of these iconic short stories: Super-frog saves Tokyo -- A few days after an earthquake, Katagirl-san finds a giant frog in his home. The frog promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri-san must help him. Is this real,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. 2023
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Summary: "A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALAMcKenzie, Emilia
Summary: "Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the years--until Charlotte died in 2018 following a long struggle with depression. Now, Emilia assembles her memories into a graphic memoir reflecting on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 MCKHanks, Tom
Summary: Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Rusty Brown" is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, "Rusty Brown" literately and literally aims at nothing less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WARBlack, Frank
Summary: "From legendary Pixies frontman, Black Francis, comes a bold and visually arresting illustarted novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FRABrenes, Edo
Summary: "Struggle in paradise; welcome to love and life in Limón. Ramiro leaves the British drizzle and his beloved fiancé Yoss to uncover his family history back home in Costa Rica. Looking through a stack of family albums and interviewing the older generations and revelations, he begins to unravel the fascinating stories behind the faded photographs. However, this treasure trove of old family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2021
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Summary: "The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AYUMcGuire, Richard.
Summary: "Richard McGuire's Here is the story of a corner of a room and the events that happened in that space while moving forward and backward in time. The book experiments with formal properties of comics, using multiple panels to convey the different moments in time. Hundreds of thousands of years become interwoven. A dinosaur from 100,000,000 BCE lumbers by, while a child is playing with a plastic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCGAncco
Summary: "Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANCBrooks, Max.
Summary: "From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters. The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account of the 369th Infantry Regiment--the first African American regiment mustered to fight in World War I. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROSanna, Alessandro
Summary: "The River tells four stories about life on the Po River, one story for each of the four seasons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sanna 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SANMadden, Matt
Summary: "Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Uncivilized Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 MADKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Herbert, Brian
Summary: Duncan Idaho follows a beacon to escape the hunt; Baron Harkonnen and the Reverend Mother make an agreement; Padot Kynes helps some Fremen and visits one of their sietches; Leto explores Ix and overhears a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 0000