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LEGO DC Superheroes: Save the Day

Trey King · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Experience Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) like you've never seen them before-LEGO(R) style!Join the World's Greatest Detective and the Man of Steel: Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) --like you've never seen them before. LEGO(R) Batman and Superman team up with Robin and Wonder...
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The Sculptor

Scott McCloud · First Second Books
Format: Hardcover

David Smith is giving his life for his art -- literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering...
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Sugar Skull

Charles Burns · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The long strange trip that began in Xed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending heartbreaking end but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie hes been telling himself since the beginning In this concluding volume nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful...
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Lumberjanes Vol. 1

Noelle Stevenson · BOOM! Box
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Five best friends spending the summer at Lumberjane scout camp...defeating yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons...what's not to love?!Friendship to the max! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together...and they're not gonna let any insane...
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After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan

Ted Rall · Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching account--in words and pictures--of Americas longest war by our most outspoken graphic journalistTed Rall traveled deep into Afghanistan--without embedding himself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating himself with flak jackets and armored SUVs--where no one else would go except,...
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Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science

Philippe Squarzoni · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 473
Format: Paperback

What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated...
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Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen

Rachel Renée Russell · Aladdin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Nikki Maxwell's worst nightmare comes true in book nine of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!A certain member of the CCP girls Dork fans know all about has gotten her hands on Nikki's diary and has decided to share some thoughts of her own ... Find out what happens when...
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Intro to Alien Invasion

Owen King · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus.Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned...
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Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

Rachel Renée Russell · Aladdin; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school - and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art in Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone,...
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Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels

Tom Devlin · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 776
Format: Hardcover

North America's pioneering comics publisher celebrates its quarter-century with new and rare archival comics; essays from Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, and more.Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels is an eight hundred-page...
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