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Eisner Award Nominees 2014
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The adventures of Superhero Girl
by Faith Erin Hicks
What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon?
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A bag of marbles
by Kris
In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone
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The Black Beetle in "No Way Out" : No Way Outby Francesco FrancavillaAfter a bomb takes out the majority of Colt City's organized crime syndicate, the Black Beetle is on the case looking for a bomber in a city filled with Nazi spies and crooked copsHPL currently does not own this title. You may request it through InterLibrary Loan.
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East of Westby Jonathan HickmanDuring the End Times, as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, the best hope for life lies in Death
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The fifth Beatle : the Brian Epstein story
by Vivek J. Tiwary
Tells the story of Brian Epstein, the discoverer and manager of the Beatles, in graphic novel format, highlighting his struggle against a society that reviled his homosexuality, Judaism, and Liverpool upbringing
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47 Ronin : The Tail of the Loyal Retainers
by Mike Richardson
In graphic novel format, recounts the legendary event from Japanese history in which forty-seven samurai avenged the death of their master before committing ritual suicide
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Hawkeye. Volume 1
by Matt Fraction
Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, and Pizza Dog face off against mob bosses, superstorms, and mystery redheads
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Love and rockets : new stories. No. 6
by Gilbert Hernandez
A collection of Love and Rocket tales finds Maria's kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids create rival movie adaptations of her life, while Tonta tries to figure out how she knows her swim coach
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March. Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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Nowhere men : Fates Worse Than Deathby Eric StephensonFour scientists create a scientific supergroup called World Corp. and usher in a new age of enlightenment and scientific advancement, but all progress comes at a priceHPL currently does not own this title. You may request it through InterLibrary Loan.
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Saga. Vol. 1
by Brian K. Vaughan
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world
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Today is the last day of the rest of your life
by Ulli Lust
"Two teenaged punk-rock girls hitchhike their way across Italy without a penny in their pockets. Set in 1984, Ulli Lust's Today is the last day of the rest of your life is an intimate, detailed, funny, touching, and dramatic chronicle of several eventfulmonths in the life of the author as she and her new best friend Edi make their way from Vienna, Austria to Sicily. There is sex. There are drugs. There is rock 'n' roll. And there are stints in jail, inclement weather, panhandling, life lessons, new friendships, acts of kindness and acts of betrayal-- and, this being Sicily, some uncomfortably close brushes with the Organization Whose Name You Mustn't Mention" -- p. [4] of cover
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Trilliumby Jeff LemireThis is a inter-dimensional, time traveling love story between two explorers in two different time periods: William Pike, a World War I veteran on an expedition to the lost temples of the Incas in Peru in 1921, and Nika Temsmith, a botanist researching a strange flower on the outer-rim of colonized space in 3797. Separated by thousands of years, William and Nika's budding love threatens the fabric of the universe. HPL currently does not own this title. You may request it through InterLibrary Loan.
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The (True!) History of Art!by Sylvain CoissardIn a series of hilarious parodies, Sylvain Coissard and Alexis Lemoine answer the nagging questions of art history: what caused The Scream? Why is Van Gogh's Yellow Bedroom so suspiciously tidy? Why is Cezanne wearing a bandage in his famous self-portrait? This book is for anyone who wants to know what happened before the Mona Lisa smiled. Or, rather, what might have happened.HPL currently does not own this title. You may request it through InterLibrary Loan.
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Vader's little princess
by Jeffrey Brown
In this comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other--except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith
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The Wakeby Scott SnyderMarine biologist Lee Archer, who along with the Department of Homeland Security, discovers a potential threat to humanity that may involve strange, humanoid creatures that inhabit the ocean depths.HPL currently does not own this title. You may request it through InterLibrary Loan.
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You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
by Tom Gauld
Arrests by the fiction police and imaginary towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon
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As the Crow Flies Charlie, a queer 13 year old girl, finds herself stranded in a dangerous place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp.
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Falling SkyAn experimental narrative in ink & watercolor, with four interrelated stories: the memoir of a failed sailor, the quest of a traveling ghost, the adventure of a genderqueer Nancy Drew, and some rampaging giant robots.
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The Oatmeal Random. Disturbing. Often educational. Rarely for the faint of heart.
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