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Blankets

Craig Thompson - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback

"Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss." --The GuardianBlankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompsons poignant graphic memoir plays out against...

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll - First Second
Format: Book

In Emily Carroll's haunting adult graphic novel horror story A Guest in the House, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to realize that there's a dark mystery surrounding his former wife's death.After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband...

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The Keeper

TANANARIVE DUE - Abrams ComicArts - Megascope
Format: Book

A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family's dark history in this horror graphic novel Aisha has suffered a devastating loss. Her parents were killed in a car crash, and now she must move to decrepit and derelict Detroit to live with her ailing grandmother....

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Monica

Daniel Clowes - Fantagraphics
Format: Book

This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most innovative storytellers of all time.

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story -- actually, stories -- of its title...

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris - Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie...

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The Mysteries

Bill Watterson - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Book

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America's most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. . In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist...

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The Nice House on the Lake

James Tynion IV - ‎DC Comics
Format: Book

Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little...off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation...

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The Night Eaters

MARJORIE LIU - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Book

The first volume in a new graphic novel horror trilogy from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda - the creative team behind the New York Times bestselling series MonstressChinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional...

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback

Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city.Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and a deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. . Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected...

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Rusty Brown

Chris Ware - Pantheon
Format: Book

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color...

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Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed - Pantheon
Format: Book

A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical Cairo where wishes really do come true. Shubeik Lubeik - a fairy tale rhyme that means "your wish is my command" in Arabic - is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally...

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Talk to My Back

MURASAKI YAMADA - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback

A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists."Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately.Set in an apartment complex...

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