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Bezimena

By (author) Nina Bunjevac
By (artist) Nina Bunjevac
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

The jumping-off point of this graphic novel is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of Artemis' virgin cohorts. ...

Clyde Fans

By (author) Seth
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

Appeared on 20 best of the year lists, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, and more!
"Open Clyde Fans and let Seth take you into his time machine. There’s no room for nostalgia ...

Dirty Plotte

By (author) Julie Doucet
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

An enduring collection of revolutionary comics from a genre-transforming and critically acclaimed cartoonist
Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series ...

Lissa

By (author) Sherine Hamdy & Coleman Nye
Illustrated by Caroline Brewer & Sarula Bao
Categories: Anthropology
Series: ethnoGRAPHIC

Lissa is the powerful story of two young women – one dealing with kidney failure and organ transplantation in Egypt, and the other with breast cancer genetics and prevention in the US. It is the first ...

Boundless

By (author) Jillian Tamaki
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

APPEARED ON BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS FROM NPR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, BOOKLIST, AND MORE
The cartoonist of This One Summer and SuperMutant Magic Academy explores the virtual and IRL ...

Crawl Space

In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent ...

Carpet Sweeper Tales

By (author) Julie Doucet
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

The iconic author of My New York Diary returns with a collection of dreamy, collaged photo comics
Julie Doucet is an artist who has mastered many voices and styles, from her landmark and medium-defining ...

SuperMutant Magic Academy

By (author) Jillian Tamaki
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches
The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning ...

Happy Stories About Well-Adjusted People

By (artist) Joe Ollmann
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

Ollmann has been called the Alice Munro of comics.

In the same way the short story has recently had a resurgence, winning many literary awards, so too the graphica version. “Joe Ollmann is one of our ...

My New York Diary

By (author) Julie Doucet
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT
Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In My New York Diary - one of the ...