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Batman: The Dark Knight returns
by Frank Miller
GN BAT
After ten years away from the public eye, a wave of violence in Gotham City brings Batman back as a vigilante.
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Ghost world
by Daniel Clowes
GN CLO
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realized young women.
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Extraordinary machine : Extraordinary Machine
by Kelly Sue DeConnick
GN DEC
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
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My favorite thing is monsters - Book one
by Emil Ferris
GN FER
Filled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.
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The encyclopedia of early earth : a graphic novel
by Isabel Greenberg
GN GRE
The lives and adventures of the race of people who lived on Early Earth before human history began is illustrated in a series of interconnected tales and fables in this graphic novel from an award-winning writer and artist.
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Locke & key : Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
GN HIL
Presents the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them--and home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
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Monstress : Awakening Volume one, Awakening
by Marjorie Liu
GN LIU
A survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and the Arcanics, teenager Maika Halfwolf is both the hunter and hunted as she seeks answers about her mysterious past.
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Daytripper
by Fábio Moon
GN MOO
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian. writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
GN MOO
Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.
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Blankets : an illustrated novel
by Craig Thompson
GN THO
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.
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Saga - Volume 1
by Brian K. Vaughan
GN VAU
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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On a Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
GN WAL
An award-winning cartoonist presents the graphic novel story of a crew member who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long-lost love while helping her team rebuild beautiful, broken-down historical structures on faraway planets.
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Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth
by Chris Ware
GN WAR
Touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation, and despair against the backdrop of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of a century, this story, set in the 1980's, follows the fortunes of Jimmy Corrigan, a meek thirty-something who meets his father for the first time in a town near Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend.
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Black Panther : a nation under our feet. Book one
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
GN YA F BLA
When a superhuman terrorist group called "The People" sparks a violent uprising, the land of Wakanda, famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions, will be thrown into turmoil; but can its king, the Black Panther, save it from this fate?
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Through the woods : Stories
by Emily Carroll
GN YA F CAR
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.
These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.
Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...
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Ms. Marvel : No Normal
by G. Willow Wilson
GN YA F MS
Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community.
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Bloom
by Kevin Panetta
GN YA F PAN
Dreaming of leaving his family's bakery to become a musician in the city, Ari unexpectedly falls for the easy-going young baker, Hector, who has been hired to replace him and begins to reevaluate his dreams and the consequences of his choices.
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Mike Morales : straight out of Brooklyn
by Saladin Ahmed
GN YA F SPI
Balancing a normal life with his superhero activities has never been easy for Miles Morales, but when the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take an even darker turn for the young Spider-Man.
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
GN YA F STE
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are
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This one summer
by Mariko Tamaki
GN YA F TAM
The team behind Skim presents the sumptuous graphic tale of a young teen whose latest summer at a beach lake house is overshadowed by her parents' constant arguments, her younger friend's secret sorrows and the dangerous activities of older teens.
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Check, Please! - Vol. 1
by Ngozi Ukazu
GN YA F UKA
Y'all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack... You see the problem.
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
GN BEC
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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March. Book one
by John Lewis
GN LEW
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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Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
GN SAT
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
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Stitches : a memoir
by David Small
GN SMA
The Caldecott-winning author of Imogene's Antlers presents a graphic account of his troubled childhood under a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.
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Maus I : a survivor's tale
by Art Spiegelman
GN SPI
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
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Super Late Bloomer : My Early Days in Transition
by Julia Kaye
GN YA B KAY
Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with similar struggles realize they weren’t alone.
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Honor girl
by Maggie Thrash
GN YA B THRASH
When Maggie falls in love with another girl at Camp Bellflower, an all-girl summer camp in Appalachia, her savant-like expertise at the camp's rifle range is what keeps her going through a summer of heartbreak and self-discovery.
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