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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years roughly contemporaneously with the authors own journey as a mother wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This debut graphic memoir (the first of two books, with Book Two coming in 2025) is a bittersweet coming of age story that chronicles the authors teenage experiences with sexual assault, PTSD, and resiliency. Dear Mini is not a cautionary tale; rather, it is a vivid (at turns hilariously and uncomfortably so) depiction of adolescent agency in the face of trauma, tracing Norriss journey from wayward wild-child to resilient adult who has harnessed her...
3) Alison
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years as she pursues her painting career.
Combining immaculate prose and stunning artwork, Alison is a complex love...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Are you ready for revolution? Revolution of the mind. Revolution of the body. At Camille's invitation, Sarah and Aniss arrive in the Tuscan countryside to take part in a unique experience. Camille hopes to achieve a complete fusion of three souls and three bodies into a single organism. An act of spiritual and organic alchemy. Revolution!
5) Big Punk
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fed up with wealthy techies blip-blipping on their wangdangs and destroying the formerly gritty culture of Fog City, a punk lady moves out to the sticks to soothe her soul. Though she is only looking to escape, a mysterious and hairy stranger disrupts her plans and causes her life to change in unexpected ways.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maude, now age 15, returns to her childhood summer camp to find that dark forces are lurking in the woods. MAN-EATERS: THE CURSED reunites the original Eisner-nominated MAN-EATERS creative team, led by New York Times bestselling thriller writer CHELSEA CAIN, for another tale of adolescent feminist derring-do and supernatural hijinks. Smart, laugh-out-loud funny, provocative, referential, scary, compulsively re-readable, and chock-full of collectible...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Maude turns into a werepanther when she gets her period.Will an in-patient, anti-pantherism clinic called Ruminations cure her through hormone adjustment therapy? Or will Maude overthrow the patriarchy, solve a series of murders, and uncover a global capitalist conspiracy?(HINT: IT'S THE SECOND ONE.) This volume wraps up the MAN-EATERS series and includes the inspirational and informative guide, HANDBOOK FOR THE REVOLUTION, plus never-before-published...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari reunite decades later at a church bingo halland what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage. This Jackpot Edition contains over sixty pages of bonus material, including the talents of Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) and newcomer Beverly Johnson, Shawn Pryor (Cash and Carrie) and...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maude has a case of puberty-induced pantherism, a missing friend, a detective dad who thinks she may be a killer, a mom with a big secret, a unicorn hiding in her bedroom, and a plan to overthrow the patriarchy. From the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking and Eisner-nominated series Mockingbird, this trade paperback collects the second arc of the unconventional coming-of-age tale including the mental hygiene guide for...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Get ready for the hottest comic book release! Witness the Earth's former superhero, who left his duties to become a questionable hero, in this captivating tale. Discover the repercussions when the mightiest hero of the TidalWave Universe must learn restraint. Brace yourself for a new era as Atlas takes center stage, featuring appearances by Venus and Judo Girl.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Adolescent girls can be real monsters.Maude is twelve which is just about that age when some girls turn into flesh-eating wildcats. As her detective dad investigates a series of strange mauling attacks, Maude begins to worry that she might be the killer. From the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking Eisner-nominated series Mockingbird, this trade paperback collects the first story arc of the unconventional coming-of-age tale including...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from granddaughters eager to know more about the familys distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, the maid, memories and legends come pouring out from the years following the birth of the American nation: a sugarcane plantation, an abusive patriarch, a fearful wife, a headstrong daughter, and a mysterious voodoo priestess. What other dark secrets lurk, long-repressed,...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In book two of this historical saga, the elderly Louise recounts her grandmother Josephines struggles to run the family plantation in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Josephine tries to raise her son Jean to be nothing like his grandfather and uncle, whose tyranny over their slaves and the women of the family forced Josephine and her mother to resort to the services of a voodoo priestess from New Orleans. But when Jean falls for a slave...
14) Valentine Tome 6
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The sixth and final chapter of Vanyda's "Valentine," taking us through to the end of adolescence. After going through moments of loneliness and self-doubt, Valentine is finally able to just be herself. She's grown up, and is set on running her own life from now on, choosing her friends and her hobbies, following her own political ideas, and even deciding what kind of relationship to have with her family. Valentine has certainly maturedbut the return...
15) Lorna
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lornas like any other girlshe loves cats, shes incredibly awkward, and she wont hesitate to pull a knife on those who displease her.
From CATBOY creator Benji Nate, LORNA follows the malicious yet charming Lorna as she learns about fashion, friendship, and romance, with a generous helping of murder.
16) Valentine Tome 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Valentine is a secondary-school student like many others. Her daily life is filled with all the upheavals and self-questioning of adolescence. Self-conscious, she tries to assert herself within a group in which she is the shy one. She spends most of her time with her girlfriends, at school or at parties on the weekend. She also tries desperately to get the attention of Felix, the boy she's in love with and who has no idea she exists. To make things...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Eisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) present the premiere volume of BITCH PLANET, their critically acclaimed and deliciously vicious sci-fi satire. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds. Discussion guide included. Collects BITCH PLANET #1-5.
18) Valentine Tome 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Going into their last year of middle school, Valentine and her friends are at that defining time of their lives when new experiences are coming thick and fast. They've got their finals just around the corner, but that doesn't stop them from bunking classes and flirting with guys (even if, in Valentine's case, they're not the guys she actually wants to flirt with... the gorgeous Felix is as aloof as ever). Valentine struggles to find her feet in this...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this tale, the Midnight Witch spends a whole cycle at her home world Lux Magicae. Without a single clue of her mothers whereabouts, Leona comes from a lifetime search between different timelines. Her faith betrays her beliefs, and shes definitely ready to leave all her hopes behind. But in the middle of this storm, the Midnight Witch seems to finally have a glimpse of the sunlight in the halls of Lux Triumphans.
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