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Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

Lawrence Wood - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look at The New Yorker cartoon caption contest, its history, how it's judged, and the secrets to writing a winning caption. Every week, thousands of people enter The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in hopes of seeing their name and caption in print. But only one person...
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HoverGirls

Geneva Bowers - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

The web comic sensation about magical girls by acclaimed illustrator Geneva Bowers, now in a beautiful print edition, featuring an expanded storyline and revised art! . Jalissa and Kim Vasquez are cousins who move to the city of Los Aguaceros together. Kim dreams of becoming a famous model...
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Ready or Not

Andi Porretta - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This "bright and bittersweet" (Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) graphic novel for fans of Jenny Han and This One Summer follows a group of friends in a post-graduation summer of adventures and offbeat dares.. With senior year finally behind them, Cassie...
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Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair: (A Graphic Novel)

Lucy Knisley - Random House Graphic
Format: Hardcover

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat, as her webcomic antics are gathered into graphic novel for the very first time! This collection is perfect for cat lovers and Linney fans alike.. What if our cats could talk? Would they...
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Universal Monsters: Dracula

James Tynion IV - Image Comics
Format: Hardcover

THE BIGGEST NAMES IN COMICS RESSURECT THE MOST ICONIC MONSTERS . THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH creators, James Tynion IV (W0rldtr33, Something is Killing the Children) and Martin Simmonds, reteam to tell a new tale of the monster who started it all! When Dr. John Seward admits a strange new patient...
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Brittle Joints

Maria Sweeney - Street Noise Books
Format: Paperback

Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. "It's a revealing visualization of a rare, 'depersonalizing' condition and how Sweeney finds 'drops of disabled joy whenever I can.' Sweeney's subtle and elegant art reflects the nuance of her moment-to-moment struggle."An...
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The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History

John Vasquez Mejias - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover

Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination attempt against President Harry S. Truman....
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The Cryptid Club #4: You Don't Know Jackalope

Michael Brumm - HarperAlley
Format: Paperback

Fans of the Bad Guys and Catwad will love the Cryptid Club, the hilarious four-book graphic novel series about an unlikely team of kid sleuths out to solve the mysteries behind the sudden spate of monster sightings around their school.When the audition sheet for the school musical is stolen,...
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club: Time to Party (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, 2)

Molly Knox Ostertag - HarperAlley
Format: Hardcover

The party continues but the problems get bigger in this second installment of this original Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel series brought to you by New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xanthe Bouma.Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master...
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Winnie-the-Pooh

Travis Dandro - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover

The beloved children's classic appears as a graphic novel for the first timePEN Graphic Novel Award winner Travis Dandro takes a left turn from his detailed autobiography and returns with the charming tales of Winnie-the-Pooh. In 2015, the A. A. Milne childrens' classic, long since...
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