LibGuides: Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels: Religions

Comics at Marist with Diverse Religious Representation

49 Days by Agnes Lee
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.L44 F68 2024
ISBN: 9781646143740
Publication Date: 2024
Day 1. Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map - it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that...? And so begins a graphic novel story unlike any other: 49 Days. In Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die, before they can fully cross over. Here in this book, readers travel with one Korean American girl, Kit, on her journey, while also spending time with her family and friends left behind.
Anne Frank : the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography by Sid Jacobson; Ernie Colón
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS135.N6 F73357 2010
ISBN: 9780809026845
Publication Date: 2010
Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam,New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have created the first authorized and exhaustive graphic biography of Anne Frank. Their account is complete, covering the lives of Anne's parents, Edith and Otto; Anne's first years in Frankfurt; the rise of Nazism; the Franks' immigration to Amsterdam; war and occupation; Anne's years in the Secret Annex; betrayal and arrest; her deportation and tragic death in Bergen-Belsen; the survival of Anne's father; and his recovery and publication of her astounding diary.
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: Graphic Novels D804.3 .S66 1997
ISBN: 9780679406419
Publication Date: 1996
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6747.S245 P4713 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.
Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood by Lonnie Mann; Ryan Gatts (Artist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels BM729.H65 M36 2024
ISBN: 9781951491277
Publication Date: 2024
A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he's gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is.
Holy Fools and Funny Gods: The Hidden Link Between Religion and Humor by Izar Lunacek
Call Number: Graphic Novels BL65.L3 L86 2023
ISBN: 9781941250570
Publication Date: 2023
A god and a fool walk into a bar... In Holy Fools and Funny Gods , philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks our present-day culture. But in pre-Christian times, pagan pantheons included holy clowns precariously positioned at the right side of the main deity. Among many tributes paid to gods, at least one ritual was reserved for the trickster who destroyed the world order only to rebuild it refreshed and new. What if the priest and the jester are enemies only because they are siblings? What if they are two sides of the same social taboos? When we put gods on pedestals, we also expose them to communal mockery. When we laugh at clowns, we worship their disregard for social convention. Lunacek's Holy Fools and Funny Gods skillfully blends philosophy with the irreverence of the comics medium into a treatise that is both hilarious and profound.
I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp by Anthony Del Col; Fahmida Azim (Artist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS731.U4 A95 2023
ISBN: 9781988247960
Publication Date: 2024
This graphic novella recounts the true story of Zumrat Dawut, as originally published in the independent online news organization, Insider, through interviews conducted by Anthony Del Col and testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat's troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America.
Infidel by Aaron Campbell (Artist); Jose Villarrubia (Artist); Pornsak Pichetshote
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6728.I46 P53 2018
ISBN: 9781534308367
Publication Date: 2018
Presenting an illustrated horror tale for the twenty-first century and a modern update to the class haunted house story, Infidel follows a young American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities fueled by xenophobia.
Iranian Love Stories by Jane Deuxard (Text by); Deloupy (Illustrator); Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor DS318.82 .D48 2021
ISBN: 9781637790045
Publication Date: 2022
Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but the women were taken to the station, and anyone who'd been drinking was forced to submit to a virginity test. She never went to another party after that. Zeinab is 20 and she loves being a woman in Iran. She says that she feels like a queen! And despite all the risks, she confesses that she makes love with her boyfriend because the danger excites her. Vahid is 26. He was a leader with the Green Movement. Then he watched his friend Neda die right in front of him. Now he keeps his head down, trying to finish his studies. In a series of vignettes based on clandestine interviews, this award-winning graphic novel explores the politics and love lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds. The result is an honest portrait of Iranian youth today and a rare glimpse into a society where the sexes are strictly segregated; and Western journalists aren't welcome. Through testimonies from across the country, we learn about traditional marriages, the pressures of living under the regime, and how young people escape the police and defy tradition to live their love stories.
Jewish comix anthology. Volume 1, A collection of tales, stories and myths told and retold in comic book form by Steven M. Bergson (Editor)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6720 .J49 2014 v.1
ISBN: 9780987715241
Publication Date: 2014
This collection of folk tales, stories and myths told in comic book format by some of the biggest names in comic book history contains never before seen interpretations of ancient tales, including some rare work from legends like Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar, Joe Kubert, and Robert Crumb. The stories within these pages range from spiritual, to supernatural, to humorous, to tales of wisdom, adventure and discovery. Some of the tales told here have been published as far back as the 1940s from artists all over the world, alongside incredible new talents whose work has been created exclusively for this volume. Other contributors include Tony DeZuniga, Adam Gorham, Joe Infumari, Yaakov Kirschen, Clifford Meth, Michael Netzer, Trina Robbins, Sharon Rudahl, and Andy Stanleigh.
The Jewish comics anthology, Volume 2, SCI by Steven M. Bergson (Editor)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6720 .J49 2014 v.2
ISBN: 9780987715289
Publication Date: 2018
Inside SCI: The Jewish comics anthology Volume 2 you will find 18 original comic books and graphic novel tales full of action, drama, humour, horror and romance. Edited by Steven Bergson, each story is based on ages-old fables, myths and legends from Hebrew culture--re-imagined as epic sci-fi visions of the future!

Comics at Marist with Diverse Religious Representation

Maus : a survivor's tale. II, And here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: Graphic Novels D804.3 .S66 1991
ISBN: 0394556550
Publication Date: 1991
This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
Maus I: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: Graphic Novels D804.3 .S66 1986
ISBN: 0394747232
Publication Date: 1986
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book one by Emil Ferris (Artist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.F4646 M9 2017
ISBN: 9781606999592
Publication Date: 2017
In tumultuous late '60s Chicago, 10-year-old Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book Two by Emil Ferris
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.F4646 M9 2024
ISBN: 9781683969273
Publication Date: 2024
In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka's recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding.
On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John; Alaba Onajin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.N63 J64 2020
ISBN: 9781911115908
Publication Date: 2020
On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbors gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, hidden pregnancy, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy, that threatens to destroy the community from within. On Ajayi Crowther Street peels back the curtains on the lives of Reverend Akpoborie and his family, to reveal a tumultuous world full of secrets and lies. His only son, Godstime, is struggling to hide his sexuality from his parents whilst his daughter Keturah must hide the truth of her pregnancy by her pastor boyfriend to preserve her and her family's image. But it is the Reverend himself who hides the darkest secret of them all.
Persepolis. 2, The story of a return by Marjane Satrapi
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6747.S245 P4713 2004
ISBN: 9780375422881
Publication Date: 2004
In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging. Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran. As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up--here compounded by Marjane's status as an outsider both abroad and at home--it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.
Sita's Ramayana by Samhita Arni; Moyna Chitrakar (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels BL1225.S57 A76 2015
ISBN: 9781554981458
Publication Date: 2011
This version of the The Ramayana is told from the perspective of Sita, the queen. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries.
Soviet Daughter by Julia Alekseyeva
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS135.U43 A44 2017
ISBN: 9781621069690
Publication Date: 2017
This is the story of Julia Alekseyeva and her great-grandmother Lola. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later as a lieutenant for the Red Army. Interwoven with Lola's history we find Julia's own struggles of coming of age in an immigrant family in Chicago, and her political awakening in the midst of the radical politics of the turn of the millennium.
Tales of the Orishas by Hugo Canuto
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.B74 T35 2023
ISBN: 9781419765889
Publication Date: 2023
In ancient times, when heaven and Earth were united as two halves of a gourd, deities and heroes walked among men. They fought battles with fury and taught the ways of the ashe (the energy of creation), land, iron, and fire. They reigned and loved with great intensity. Some descended from the luminous Orun, to live their lives and fulfill their destinies, while others were born in the aiye, and through their great deeds became Orishas, changing forever the history of two continents. Tales of the Orishas fuses the pantheon of the African diasporic religion of Candomblé with the Silver Age comic aesthetics of Jack Kirby into a riveting tale of high adventure. The story centers around a celestial battle between the gods of Brazil, who are worshipped by the Bahia people, and a fearsome conquering force led by a dark and malevolent overlord. Only Shango, the god of fire and thunder, can lead his people into victory while the fate of creation hangs in the balance.
A Visit to Moscow by Anna Olswanger (Adapted by); Rabbi Rafael Grossman (Concept by); Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.O47 V57 2022
ISBN: 9781513128733
Publication Date: 2022
In 1965, An American rabbi travels to the Soviet Union to investigate reports of persecution among the Jewish community. Moscow welcomes him as a guest--but provides a strict schedule he and the rest of his group must follow. One afternoon, the rabbi slips away. With an address in hand and almost no knowledge of the Russian language, he embarks on a secret journey that will change his life forever. Inspired by the true experience of Rabbi Rafael Grossman, A visit to Moscow captures the formidable perseverence of the Jewish people during the 'Let My People Go' movement, a modern exodus that is often overlooked.
We Are Not Strangers by Josh Tuininga
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.T85 W43 2023
ISBN: 9781419759949
Publication Date: 2023
We Are Not Strangers explores a unique situation of Japanese and Jewish Americans living side by side in a country at war. Marco Calvo always knew his grandfather, affectionately called Papoo, was a good man. After all, he was named for him. A first-generation Jewish immigrant, Papoo was hardworking, smart, and caring. When Papoo peacefully passes away, Marco expects the funeral to be simple. However, he is caught off guard by something unusual. Among his close family and friends are mourners he doesn't recognize--Japanese American families--and no one is quite sure who they are or why they are at the service. How did these strangers know his grandfather so well?
What Is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DA676.9.S6 K43 2022
ISBN: 9781951491178
Publication Date: 2022
As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating a strong feminist message of self-reflection and empowerment which is illuminated in stunning artwork.
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor DS135.L53 K75 2021
ISBN: 9781635573701
Publication Date: 2021
Based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII--found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them. In When I Grow Up, Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It's as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents' rediscovery. Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, and bursting with life, When I Grow Up reveals how the tragedy that is about to befall these young people could easily happen again, to any of us, if we don't learn to listen to the voices from the past.
White Bird: a Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio
Call Number: Graphic PN6727.P35 W45 2019
ISBN: 9780525645535
Publication Date: 2019
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. Sara's harrowing experience movingly demonstrates the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives. As Grandmère tells Julian, "It always takes courage to be kind, but in those days, such kindness could cost you everything." With poignant symbolism and gorgeous artwork that brings Sara's story out of the past and cements it firmly in this moment in history, White Bird is sure to captivate anyone who was moved by the book Wonder or the blockbuster movie adaptation and its message.
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland by Carol Isaacs
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS135.I713 I83 2020
ISBN: 9781912408559
Publication Date: 2020
In the 1940's a third of Baghdad's population was Jewish. Within a decade nearly all 150,000 had been expelled, killed or had escaped. Transported by the power of music to her ancestral home in the old Jewish quarter of Baghdad, the author encounters its ghost-like inhabitants who are revealed as long-gone family members. As she explores the city, journeying through their memories and her imagination, she at first sees successful integration, and cultural and social cohesion. Then the mood turns darker with the fading of this ancient community's fortunes. The wolf, believed by Baghdadi Jews to protect from harmful demons, sees that Jewish life in Iraq is over, and returns the author safely back to London.
Yes, I'm hot in this : the hilarious truth about life in a hijab by Huda Fahmy
Call Number: Graphic Novels E184.M88 .F27 2018
ISBN: 9781507209349
Publication Date: 2018
Popular Instagram cartoonist and Muslim-American Huda Fahmy presents a hilarious, relatable, and painfully honest new collection of comics that break down barriers and show how universal our everyday problems, worries, and joys actually are. In Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda navigates the sometimes-rocky waters of life from the unique perspective of a Muslim-American woman, breaking down misconceptions of her culture one comic at a time. From recounting the many questions she gets about her hijab every day (yes, she does have hair) and explaining how she runs in an abaya (just fine, thank you) to dealing with misconceptions about Muslims, Yes, I'm Hot in This tackles universal feelings from an point of view we don't hear from nearly enough.