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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu

Bill Schelly - Fantagraphics Books
Format: Print book

This is a biography of one of the most influential "girl power" comic book writer/artists (Little Lulu, Nancy) of the mid-20th century. This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully...
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Alone

Christophe Chaboute - Gallery 13
Format: Paperback

Available in English for the first time - the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoulme Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabout (Park Bench, Moby-Dick) .On a tiny lighthouse island...
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Blankets

Craig Thompson - Drawn & Quarterly, 2015.
Format: Print book

"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 Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against...
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My Hero Academia, Vol. 4 (4)

Kohei Horikoshi - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the worlds greatest hero, but greatness wont come easy.. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning...
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Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1

Stan Lee - Marvel
Format: Hardcover

In 1962, in the pages of a comic book slated for cancellation, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave birth to one of the most enduring icons in American popular culture - the one and only Amazing Spider-Man! Turning the concept of a super hero on its head, they imbued the young, guilt-ridden Peter...
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BLACK Volume 1

Kwanza Osajyefo - Black Mask Comics
Format: Paperback

In a world that already hates and fears them - what if only Black people had superpowers. After miraculously surviving being gunned down by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest lie in history. Now he must decide whether it's safer to keep it a secret or if the truth...
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Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Roz Chast - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/thank-you note to Manhattan as only she could write it.For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where...
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The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw

Mark Crilley - Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback

Read This Comic and Start Drawing Today!For the first time ever, drawing instructor and graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy-to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists in the form of a comic book, providing you with a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. In The Drawing Lesson,...
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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 1: After Life

Al Ewing - Titan Comics
Format: Hardcover

ALL-NEW ADVENTURES WITH THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR! With a force of personality capable of bending time itself and all the energy of a stars exploding heart, the Doctor blasts into the hollow, tragic life of a woman with so much to offer - and gives her the chance to scream "Geronimo!"...
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I Am Alfonso Jones

TONY MEDINA - Tu Books
Format: Paperback

Named to the 2018 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens list (Young Adult Library Services Association) and the New York Public Library's list of Best Books for Teens.Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Marvel
Format: Paperback

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting TChalla with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Sarah Glidden - Drawn & Quarterly
Format: Print book

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends -- reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit -- as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former...
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Jonesy Vol. 3

Sam Humphries - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Jonesy has the power to make people fall in love! Anyone. With anything.There's only one catch - it doesn't work on herself!She doesn't sling arrows, only attitude! The adventures of Jonesy, the teenage cupid with a penchant for plaid, continue here. Stuff still rules, High...
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Injustice: Gods Among Us Vol. 2

Tom Taylor - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best Seller!From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash hit fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us!From the ashes of Metropolis comes Superman and the JLA's newest ally: Lex Luthor! Against all odds, he's not only survived...
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 2: Cosmic Cooties

Amy Reeder - Marvel Worldwide
Format: Print book

She's been so busy worrying about the Terrigen Cloud that would turn her Inhuman, Luna Lafayette might instead fall prey to...Cosmic Cooties?! Because when a new boy moves to town from far, far away, he's oddly interested in her. Meanwhile, the most wanted T-Rex in NYC is running out of places...
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Nemo: River of Ghosts

Alan Moore - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Hardcover

In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, its 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past - or her imagination...
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Sabrina

Nick Drnaso - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover

THE FIRST EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK! ON 20 BEST OF 2018 LISTS INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, NEWSWEEK, AND THE GUARDIAN!. "Sabrina is the intimate story of one mans suffering, but it also captures the political nihilism...
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World War One: 1914 - 1918

Alan Cowsill - Campfire
Format: Paperback

The First World War also known as the Great War involved over thirty nations and resulted in the deaths of millions of young men. This stunning new book brings history to life as we follow the fortunes of a group of young conscripts and volunteers to discover what life was really like...
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues...
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The Flintstones Vol. 1

Mark Russell - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

Hanna-Barbera has created some of the most recognizable animated characters of all time. As part of DC Comics' re-imagination of cartoons like SCOOBY-DOO, THE FLINTSONES, JOHNNY QUEST, SPACE GHOST, and WACKY RACERS, these new series will be infused with modern and contemporary concepts...
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminismWonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time....
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Jonesy Vol. 2

SAM HUMPHRIES - BOOM! STUDIOS
Format: Print book

Jonesy has the power to make people fall in love! Anyone. With anything.There's only one catch - it doesn't work on herself!She doesn't sling arrows, only attitude! The adventures of Jonesy, the teenage cupid with a penchant for plaid, continue here. Stuff still rules, High...
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A People's History of American Empire

Howard Zinn - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics formSince its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom...
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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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LESLIE STEIN - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical exploration of the city and memory, as drawn by a Vice cartoonistLeslie Stein takes us on a sinuous urban stroll divorced from destination, glimpsing New York City through her open eyes. While she is closing up a bar late at night, she is also an adolescent at a rave in the mountains,...
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer

LEIGH BARDUGO - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, entirely new coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO. She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons....
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The Backstagers Vol. 1

JAMES IV TYNION - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic - literally!When Jory transfers to an all-boys private high school, he's taken in by the only ones who don't treat him like a new kid, the lowly stage crew known as the Backstagers. Not only does...
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The Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

MARK RUSSELL - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

Fred and Barney reunite for Mark Russell's modern take on Hanna-Barbera's most famous stone-age family!This second volume starring the first family of Bedrock (and civilization, really) tells the story of who we are and why we do what we do as if it all began with Fred, Wilma,...
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Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman - Dark Horse Books
Format: Hardcover

Enn is a sixteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear!...
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Dinosaurs #1: In the Beginning...

Arnaud Plumeri - Papercutz
Format: Hardcover

Think you know everything there is to know about dinosaurs? Think again! In this brand new series, kid dinos show us what their lives were like in short, funny, teeth-gnashing bursts of prehistoric mayhem. DINOSAURS is your guided tour through the rough-and-tumble world of the mightiest...
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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 Wendy Project

MELISSA JANE OSBORNE - Super Genius
Format: Paperback

16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting...
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The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

Michael F Patton - Hill & Wang
Format: Print book

The most entertaining and engaging philosophy class you'll ever take!In The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, Michael F. Patton and Kevin Cannon introduce us to the grand tradition of examined living. With the wisecracking Heraclitus as our guide, we travel down the winding river...
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Runaways by Rainbow Rowell Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home

Rainbow Rowell - Marvel
Format: Paperback

GET READY TO RUN! The "IT" book of the early 2000s with the original cast is back - Nico! Karolina! Molly! Chase! Old Lace! And, could it be? GERT?! The heart of the Runaways died years ago, but you won't believe how she returns! Superstar author Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor &...
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Bandette Volume 2 Stealers Keepers!

Paul Tobin - Dark Horse Books
Format: Hardcover

Bandette returns to steal readers' hearts once again! The teenaged master burglar has thrown down the gauntlet with the Great Thieving Race, and friendly rival Monsieur has stepped in to take the challenge. This second charming collection of the award-winning digital series sees the two competing...
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The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry

David L. Carlson - ‎First Second; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

It was a hunting accident -- that much Charlie is sure of. Thats how his father, Matt Rizzo -- a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille -- had lost his vision. Its not until Charlies troubled teenage years, when hes facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth.Matt...
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Julia Wertz - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's.In...
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My Hero Academia , Vol. 2

Kouhei Horikoshi - Viz Media
Format: Paperback

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks" at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course!...
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Jonesy Vol. 1 (1) (Jonesy, 1)

Sam Humphries - BOOM! Studios
Format: Paperback

A sarcastic teenager with the powers of cupid unleashes her preternatural matchmaking abilities on her school with hilarious and charming results.. Jonesy is a self-described "cool dork" who spends her time making zines nobody reads, watching anime, and listening to riot grrrl...
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Displacement

Lucy Knisley - Fantagraphics Books
Format: Paperback

In the latest volume of her graphic travelogue series, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley must care for her grandparents on a cruise. In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething...
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Maximum Ride: The Manga Vol. 3 (Maximum Ride: The Manga Serial)

James Patterson - Yen Press
Format: Hardcover

Narrowly surviving their encounter with Erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington, D.C. But what they find waiting for them is...a home?! How will the flock adjust to a real school - one that doesnt involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?
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March: Book One

John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from...
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Korgi, Vol. 1

Christian Slade - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Christian Slade, a former Disney animator and currently full-time freelance illustrator, has brought to Top Shelf a gorgeously illustrated woodland fantasy about a young girl named Ivy, her dog Sprout and their amazing adventures in Korgi Hollow. This amazing combination of adventure and fantasy...
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Bad Island

Doug TenNapel - Graphix
Format: Paperback

Something on this island is up to no good . . .When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible...
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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Alan Moore - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Book

The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her lover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting new talents such as the trans-gendered...
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Angel Catbird Volume 1

Margaret Eleanor Atwood - Dark Horse Comics
Format: Print book

Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year!On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl....
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Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts

Anthony Bourdain - Berger Books
Format: Hardcover

Hungry Ghosts is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential, Emmy-Award winning TV star of Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster) back again from their New York...
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Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel

Jules Feiffer - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A Vanity Fair Best Book of 2014 A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2014 When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street inKill My Mother.Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer...
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Lumberjanes Vol. 1

Noelle Stevenson - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

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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FCBD GUY DELISLE HOSTAGE

Guy Delisle - Drawn & Quarterly

"Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural...
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Bandette Volume 1: Presto!

Paul Tobin - Diamond Comic Distributors
Format: Print book

Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover's enchanting, Eisner-nominated digital series comes to print! The world's greatest thief is a costumed teen burglar in swinging Paris by the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying her skills on either side of the law, Bandette is a thorn in the sides of both...
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The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular

Jimmy Gownley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Do you know there’s no true opposite to the word “catastrophe”? Amelia McBride and company are about to embark on their most daunting mission yet: navigating the promises and pitfalls of popularity at Joe McCarthy Elementary. A tricky task when you consider an unmatched...
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Vol.2

Nick Abadzis - Titan Books
Format: Print book

ALL-NEW ADVENTURES WITH THE TENTH DOCTOR!Two strangers: the Doctor, charming, eccentric Time Lord with a past as dark and heavy as a black hole; Gabriella Gonzalez, waitress and wannabe artist with a future dragging her down like lead chains.Hurled together by a wave of psychic horror haunting...
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

Jim Ottaviani - Harry N Abrams, 2016.
Format: Print book

Award winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) is credited with many of the foundational...
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March: Book Three

Nate Powell - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature2017 Printz Award Winner2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner2017 Sibert Medal Winner2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner2017 Walter Award Winner"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers WeeklyWelcome...
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All The Answers

MICHAEL KUPPERMAN - Gallery 13
Format: Hardcover

A NPR BEST BOOK OF 2018 A VULTURE BEST COMIC OF 2018 A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018 WINNER OF THE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL CRITICS POLL In this moving graphic...
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Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1

NaRae Lee - Yen Press
Format: Paperback

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel - are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock...
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Compulsive Comics

ERIC HAVEN - Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback

There are dinosaurs, murder fantasies, and secret wars in this collection of short comics stories.Compulsive Comics collects the very best of Eric Haven's singular brand of inverted-comic-book-consciousness and genre-bending short stories. "The Glacier" is about a lone scientist...
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The Best American Comics 2016

Roz Chast - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Fresh off the success of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast picks the best graphic pieces of the year. It showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels,...
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Apollo: The Brilliant One

George O'Connor - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Mighty Apollo is known by all as the god of the sun, but there's more to this Olympian than a bright smile and a shining chariot. In the latest volume of Olympians, New York Times bestselling author George O'Connor continues to turn his extensive knowledge of the original Greek myths...
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Black Hammer Volume 1

Jeff Lemire - Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village...
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Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #15

Jim Davis - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

A Triple Helping of Classic GARFIELD Humor - Three Books in One Means Three Times the Fun!The art of fun is on full display in Garfield's latest Fat Cat colossus!The furry Picasso uses Odie as a canvas, expresses himself in interpretive dance, and shows his clever creativity in the kitchen....
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Hellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent

Mike Mignola - Dark Horse Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Hellboy creator and comics superstar Mike Mignola returns to draw Hellboy's ongoing story for the first time since Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm. It's a story only Mignola could tell, as more of Hellboy's secrets are at last revealed, in the most bizarre depiction of Hell you've...
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