Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco

Title: Footnotes in Gaza Author(s): Joe Sacco Artist(s): Joe Sacco Category: True, War, Politics Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, German, Swedish, Polish Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: graphic violence, language Synopsis: Footnotes in Gaza serves as a companion piece to Joe Sacco’s Palestine. For this graphic novel, he went into […]

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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
The cover of Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince.

Title: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir Author(s): Liz Prince Artist(s): Liz Prince Category: Autobiographical Languages: English, French, Spanish Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: Language, Sexual Content Synopsis: In Tomboy, Liz Prince recounts her trials and tribulations growing up as a non-gender conforming girl. From her early childhood, when she refused to wear dresses and girly clothes, to […]

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War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
The Cover of War Brothers: The Graphic Novel by Sharon E. McKay, illustrated by Daniel Lefrance.

Title: War Brothers: The Graphic Novel Author(s): Sharon E. McKay Artist(s): Daniel Lefrance Category: Based-On, War, Child Soldiers Languages: English Grade Level(s):7-12 Mature Content?: Violence, Implied Rape Synopsis: Based on interviews conducted in Uganda, War Brothers: The Graphic Novel is a fictionalized account of child soldiers in Africa. McKay initially wrote the story as an […]

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Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival

Title: Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival Author(s): Joe Kubert Artist(s): Joe Kubert Category: Biographical, War Languages: English, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Polish Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault Synopsis: Joe Kubert’s celebrated Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival is a gripping, eminently readable tale. In 1992, as Serbia […]

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
The cover of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Title: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Author(s): Scott McCloud Artist(s): Scott McCloud Category: Academic Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Farsi, Finnish, Dutch, Croatian, Greek, Swedish, Galician, Slovenian Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: No Synopsis: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is more a meta-textbook than anything else. Considered an essential resource in […]

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Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue
A look at the cover of Vagabond, vol. 11, by Takehiko Inoue.

Title: Vagabond Author(s): Takehiko Inoue Artist(s): Takehiko Inoue Category: Historical, Biographical Languages: Japanese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence Synopsis: Vagabond is the tale of Miyamoto Musashi, one of the most revered swordsmen and philosophers in all of Japanese history, treading the line between manga and graphic novel. The series […]

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Rurouni Kenshin

Title: Rurouni Kenshin Author(s): Nobuhiro Watsuki Artist(s): Nobuhiro Watsuki Category: Based-On Languages: Japanese, English, Spanish, Indonesian, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Polish Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: Violence, some graphic. Synopsis: Following the story of a wandering samurai, or ronin, Rurouni Kenshin tells a fictionalized, but historically based tale of the struggles of the Meiji […]

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Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang
The cover from Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang

Title: Boxers & Saints Author(s): Gene Luen Yang Artist(s): Gene Luen Yang Category: Based-On Languages: English, French Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence Synopsis: Boxers & Saints is  series of two parallel graphic novels, exploring two sides of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Boxers follows the story and perspective of Little Bao, a rural Chinese […]

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Author(s): Alison Bechdel Artist(s): Alison Bechdel Category: Autobiographical Languages: English, French, Spanish,Italian, Hungarian, Korean, German, Greek, Turkish, Chinese Grade Level(s): 10-12 Mature Content?: Nudity, some sex Synopsis: Fun Home is a memoir, in which Alison Bechdel tells the story of her relationship with her father and, to some extent, her […]

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El Deafo

Title: El Deafo Author(s): Cece Bell Artist(s): Cece Bell Category: Autobiographical Languages: English, French Grade Level(s): 4-8 Mature Content?: N/A Synopsis: El Deafo is Cece Bell’s autobiography. At age 4, Bell got meningitis, leaving her suddenly deaf.  In order to integrate her into a classroom, the school adopted a special system that integrated with her hearing […]

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