Doucet, Julie
Summary: In My New York Diary - one of the first contemporary graphic novels - Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUCET, JULIE DOUHangry Hermit
Summary: Created by The Hangry Hermit, Really?!? is a light-hearted comic strip that welcomes you into the lives of an average Asian-Canadian family. With a speed-cubing big sister, a mischievous little sister and a Mom who has mastered 'the look of true exasperation,' Dad is a comic artist who shares their sweet daily moments in this book. From encounters with ancestral moths to overly mature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [the Hangry Hermit] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HANYu, Mei
Summary: "A little girl moves with her family from China to Canada and must find a way to learn English in order to make friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YUDelisle, Guy
Summary: "For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve-hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DELXu, Ray
Summary: Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family’s alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. School isn’t exactly an oasis either—being one of the few Asian kids makes for some unwelcome attention. But when Kevin’s class plans a trip to Thrill Planet, a spectacular theme park, will he finally have a chance to turn his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC XURobertson, David
Summary: "From Governor-General's Award-winning writer David A. Robertson comes this special edition of the timeless graphic novel that introduced the world to the awe-inspiring resilience of Betty Ross, and shared her story of strength, family, and culture. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2021
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Summary: "Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this #ownvoices graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school--and then there's Viola. Viola is Livy's anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC FUNSummary: Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THIGravel, Elise
Summary: Tells the true story of Antonio Barichievich, the larger-than-life Montréal strongman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A TOON Book 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GRATobimatsu, Kimiko
Summary: "A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed in a new and complicated life of endless appointments,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TOBVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself traveling back in time to 1816 in the middle of a Métis bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie just before a deadly battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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2 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRBeaton, Kate
Summary: Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEATON, KATE BEATamaki, Jillian
Summary: "SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep-school for mutants and witches but their paranormal abilities take a back seat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TAMMacLeod, Susan (Susan J.)
Summary: "When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government without a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MACTamaki, Mariko
Summary: Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC TAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Tamaki 2019Kniivila, Irma
Summary: "When a machine boy falls to earth, his heart is awoken for the first time. As he learns to be human, he struggles to override his own programming and become a hero, from rising stars Tri Vuong and Irma Kniivila. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Machine Boy! When Machine Boy falls from the sky into the domed city of Mega 416, he leaves a wake of destruction in his path... until Karate Grandpa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics/Skybound Comet 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VUOWhamond, Dave
Summary: "Nick's supersized ears give him supersized powers. So when he's recruited by Super Fantastic Guy to be a sidekick -- or, as Nick prefers, a superhero assistant -- he leaps at the chance to use his powers for good. Forced to wear a goofy cape and a fanny pack, Nick discovers that being a superhero assistant isn't all it's cracked up to be. Worst of all, he solves the crimes while Super...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WHAVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself transported back in time to 1869, when Maetis resistance fighters battle against Canadian surveyors for access to land in the Red River Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRFoster-Dimino, Sophia
Summary: "Begun as a loose, ephemeral zine that was produced in limited editions, these comics, small in both size and length, are esoteric and immensely personal. Covering a span of four years, the comics collected here build a relationship that is deeper than their elegantly drawn surfaces." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koyama Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FOSFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGWong, Teresa
Summary: "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 WONStrong, Amanda
Summary: "On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 STRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STRVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANVellekoop, Maurice
Summary: "Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024