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750 Years in Paris by Vincent Mahe
Call Number: Graphic Novels DC771 .M34 2015
ISBN: 9781907704932
Publication Date: 2015
A literary graphic novel unlike anything else on the racks,750 Years tells the story of our time, focusing on one single building in France as it sees its way through the upheavals of history. Beginning in the thirteenth century and making its way towards today, this historically accurate story is the eagerly anticipated debut from Vincent Mahé.
83 Days in Mariupol: a War Diary by Don Brown
Call Number: Graphic DK508.852 .B76 2023
ISBN: 9780063311565
Publication Date: 2023
A young adult graphic novel that captures the complexities of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the siege of Mariupol (Feb '22 - May '22) and the brave people who stayed to defend their city against Russian forces as well as the resulting effects on global politics. A city ruined. In once quiet residential streets, two armies battle, driving people into cellars and basements with little food or water. No lights or heat. Dwindling medical supplies. Shells and bullets deliver cruel, random death to the young and old, men, women, and children. This is Mariupol, a Ukrainian city and early target of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bordering Russian-occupied territory, the coastal city seemed doomed to a defeat that would come within days, if not hours. Could Mariupol, and Ukraine, survive As Russian rockets threatened the city, Ukrainians resisted, and with a heroic combination of sacrifice and bravery, the besieged city endured ... for months. But it all came at a steep cost. With compassion and his keen journalist's eye, Sibert Honor creator Don Brown illuminates the horrors of Mariupol and the depredations of its people not seen in the city since World War II. He also shows that outside of Mariupol, the city's agonies were mirrored by similar events occurring in towns and cities across Ukraine. 83 Days in Mariupol reminds us that the bloody defiance shown at the Alamo, Dunkirk, Leningrad, and Thermopylae isn't confined to the past but has a violent, modern presence. It is the story of senseless destruction, patriotism, and grit against long odds--a brutal battle whose consequences still reverberate across Ukraine and continue to reshape the global political landscape.
Abina and the Important Men by Trevor R. Getz; Liz Clarke (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels KRX46.M36 G48 2016
ISBN: 9780190238742
Publication Date: 2015
Based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The story of Abina Mansah - a woman "without history" who was wrongfully enslaved, escaped to British-controlled territory, and then took her former master to court - takes place in the complex world of the Gold Coast at the onset of late nineteenth-century colonialism. Parts II-V provide detailed historical context for the story, a reading guide that reconstructs and deconstructs the methods used to interpret the story, and strategies for using Abina in various classroom settings. Focusing on such important themes as the relationship between slavery and gender in pre-colonial Akan society, the role of marriage in Abina's experience, colonial paternalism, and the meaning of cloth and beads in her story, this section also includes a debate on whether or not Abina was a slave, with contributions by three award-winning scholars - Antoinette Burton, Sandra Greene, and Kwasi Konadu - each working from different perspectives.
After Lambana : myth and magic in Manila : a graphic novel by Eliza Victoria; Mervin Malonzo (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.P63 V53 2022
ISBN: 9780804855259
Publication Date: 2022
Enter a Filipino fantasy world where myth, magic, and mystery collide! On the shadowy, noir-tinged streets of Manila, two friends seek a cure for a mysterious malady. To add to their problems, the Magic Prohibition Act has been adopted, and Lambana -- the supernatural realm of the Diwata -- has fallen. Slinky sirenas and wraith-like spirits populate this parallel universe of lurking danger and corruption. Will Lambana spill its secrets and provide the healing balm that's needed? Or will Conrad and Ignacio fail in their quest and perish in the process?
Akane-banashi. 1, On That Day by Yuki Suenaga; Takamasa Moue (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 A33 2023 v.1
ISBN: 9781974736485
Publication Date: 2023
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit inside Akane. From that day forth, she has had one goal--to avenge her father and prove his art was worthy of the title of shin'uchi. Akane unintentionally stirs up a scandal when she's discovered taking informal lessons from her father's former teacher, Shiguma Arakawa. And she's about to make even bigger waves because she is about to begin her first steps in climbing the ranks of a rakugo performer, from zenza opening act to shin'uchi headliner, by exchanging her secret lessons for formal training. But she'll still have to finish high school and navigate her relationship with Shiguma's existing apprentices, all while learning that becoming a stellar rakugoka takes much more than just being good at performing!
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa: 1910-1948: A Graphic History by Richard Conyngham
Call Number: Graphic Novels DT1928 .C66 2021
ISBN: 9781946395634
Publication Date: 2021
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history. From immigrants and miners to tram workers and washerwomen, the everyday people in these stories bore the brunt of oppression and in some cases risked their lives to bring about positive change for future generations.
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.H23 Z46 2020
ISBN: 9780062685100
Publication Date: 2020
For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn't understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn't fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to--her mother. Then one day Robin's mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined.
Angola Janga : kingdom of runaway slaves by Marcelo D'Salete
Call Number: Graphic Novels HT1129.P27 S25 2019
ISBN: 9781683961918
Publication Date: 2019
An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D'Salete brings history to life: the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom. At turns heartbreaking and empowering, Angola Janga sheds light on a long-overlooked moment of resistance against oppression.
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.S55 L54 2015
ISBN: 9781101870693
Publication Date: 2016
Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s as he looks back on his career, Chan has spent a lifetime making comics in his native Singapore since he was a boy of 16, in 1954. The artist doubles here as both the narrator and the subject matter, as his life story parallels the changes in Singapore over five decades since the war. The evolution of his artwork mirrors the evolution of both his homeland and the comic book medium itself. The myriad art styles employed by Liew go beyond deft sleight-of-hand and actually inform the narrative in a thoroughly ingenious and engaging way. While all the detail about the formation of the Singapore government adheres meticulously to the facts, the reader is ultimately left wondering whether or not Charlie Chan Hock Chye himself is real or a construct. And given the subject at hand, that quandary only adds to the themes raised in this enthralling graphic novel.
At 30 I Realized I had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by Shou Arai
Call Number: Graphic HQ78.2.J3 A73 2023
ISBN: 9781427873453
Publication Date: 2023
At age 30, transgender intersex mangaka Shou Arai (he/him) came to a realization; he had no gender. Now he was faced with a question he'd never really considered: how to age in a society where everything is so strongly segregated between two genders? This autobiographical manga explores Japanese culture surrounding gender, transgender issues, and the day to day obstacles faced by gender minorities and members of the LGBTQIA+ community with a lighthearted, comedic attitude.
Aya: Life in Yop City by Clément Oubrerie (Illustrator); Helge Dascher (Translator); Marguerite Abouet
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.C853 A26 2021
ISBN: 9781770460829
Publication Date: 2021
Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation--an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa--seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wry soap opera revolving around the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.
Banned Book Club by Hyun-Sook Kim; Ryan Estrada; Hyung-Ju Ko (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS922.35 .K56 2020
ISBN: 9781945820427
Publication Date: 2020
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in. In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.
Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907-1368) by Jing Liu
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DS735 .L58 2016 v.3
ISBN: 9781611720341
Publication Date: 2017
Recounts the great cultural advances made by the Song dynasty including the invention of gunpowder, printing, and the compass, as well as the birth of Neo-Confucianism. It tells of the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan, as well as other steppe tribes, who eventually topple the Son and establish the Yuan, a dynasty that blended traditional Chinese culture with Mongol rule.
Bauhaus : a Graphic Novel by Valentina Grande; Sergio Varbella (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels N332.G3 G73 2022
ISBN: 9783791388571
Publication Date: 2022
The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea--the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel's protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture. The novel is divided into three chapters that trace the evolution of the Bauhaus, as its center moved across Germany--from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin--and as its philosophy responded to this economically, politically and intellectually highly charged era in Europe. Sergio Varbella's inventive drawings bring to life the theories of founder Walter Gropius, as well as the basic design ideals of unity and equity. Valentina Grande's thoughtful texts highlight crucial moments within the movement's history and in the lives of principal figures such as Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, and Mies van der Rohe. The perfect introduction to a radical but highly influential chapter in the history of design, this novel shows how the Bauhaus school broke down barriers and built up ideals that are still applied today.
Berlin by Jason Lutes
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.L88 B47 2020
ISBN: 9781770464063
Publication Date: 2020
Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes' masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.
Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DK510.29 .F53 2022
ISBN: 9780063080362
Publication Date: 2022
An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator's Emma Fick's epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway--from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow--including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips.
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator); Lark Pien (Inked or colored by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor PN6727.Y36 B68 2013
ISBN: 9781596433595
Publication Date: 2013
In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
The Bride Was a Boy by Chii
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; HQ77.8.C45 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781626928886
Publication Date: 2018
Chii and her husband are like any other happily married couple, except for one thing: Chii was assigned male at birth. Chii details her autobiographical account of growing up with gender dysphoria and ultimately deciding to transition in her early adult years. Shortly after Chii starts transitioning, she meets a man who is instantly enamored by her, and although he is surprised when Chii eventually tells him she used to live as a guy, he still wants to go out with her. As Chii continues to transition, her boyfriend supports her through the process, culminating in their marriage once her transition is complete.
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made its People Disappear by Florian Grosset
Call Number: Graphic DS349.9.C42 G76 2021
ISBN: 9781912408672
Publication Date: 2021
Between 1965 and 1973 the inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland and dumped in Mauritius and Seychelles. Diego Garcia, the largest island, was leased to the USA by the UK to accommodate the largest US military air base outside the US mainland. Grosset's account of the eviction, and the harsh life faced by the Chagossians after their displacement, looks back to the first generation of slaves who arrived on the archipelago and the lives of their descendants.
Chaos in Kinshasa by Barly Baruti (Illustrator); Thierry Bellefroid (Created by); Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.C753 B38 2024
ISBN: 9781946395986
Publication Date: 2024
A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire--complete with espionage, murder, and a communist plot to overthrow Zaire's infamous President Mobutu. When Ernest, a low-level gangster from Harlem, wins tickets to travel to Zaire to attend the "Rumble in the Jungle," the now-legendary bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, he's eager to reconnect with his African roots and escape the ruthless gang leaders he's indebted to back home. But in Zaire, Ernest becomes entangled in an Angolan coup against the country's embattled president Mobutu Sese Seko--inspired by Che Guevara himself-and soon realizes that Zaire may hold even more dangers for him than Harlem ever could.
Chernobyl: The Fall of Atomgrad by Matyás Namai
Call Number: Graphic Novels TK1362.U38 N36 2024
ISBN: 9781786751362
Publication Date: 2024
The Atoms for Peace programme was adopted in Russia to help the Soviet Union overtake the West's nuclear power superiority. Instead it resulted in the creation of a radioactive cloud that terrified the entire world. What led to the catastrophe at Chernobyl in April 1986 is a complex question: strict authoritarian policies, impossible deadlines, a lack of money and materials, pervasive bureaucracy and political corruption all played their part in the largest nuclear catastrophe in history. This graphic and harrowing account of the disaster follows the dozens of human stories cruelly affected by the tragedy. From the engineers and firefighters to doctors and soldiers, the children and families in the surrounding towns and villages to the animals in the forests--they all make up the story of Chernobyl, a mosaic of victims who paid the price for distant politicians' ambition and arrogance.
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali by Naji Al-Ali; Joe Sacco (Introduction by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS119.7 .A45 2009
ISBN: 9781844673650
Publication Date: 2009
Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris. Independent and unaligned to any political party, Naji al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people. The pointed satire of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown. For the first time in book form, A Child in Palestine presents the work of Naji al-Ali. Through his most celebrated creation, the witness-child Handala (Hanthala), al-Ali chronicles the Israeli occupation, the corruption of the regimes in the region, and the plight of the Palestinian people.
City of Clowns by Daniel Alarcón; Sheila Alvarado
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.P43 A43 2015
ISBN: 9781594633331
Publication Date: 2015
Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.
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.
Crude: a memoir by Pablo Fajardo; Sophie Tardy-Joubert; Damien Roudeau (Illustrator); Hannah Chute (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels TD195.P4 F35 2021
ISBN: 9780271088068
Publication Date: 2021
Oil waste was everywhere--on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital disorders. The American oil company Texaco--now part of Chevron--extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador in 1972. It left behind millions of gallons of spilled oil and more than eighteen million gallons of toxic waste. In Crude, Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo gives a firsthand account of Texaco's involvement in the Amazon as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants. As a teenager, Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed the consequences of Texaco/Chevron's indifference to the environment and to the inhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his peers to seek reparations and in time became the lead counsel for UDAPT (Union of People Affected by Texaco), a group of more than thirty thousand small farmers and indigenous people from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to fight for reparations and remediation to this day. Eye-opening and galvanizing, Crude brings to light one of the least well-known but most important cases of environmental and racial injustice of our time.
Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey by Ozge Samanci
Call Number: Graphic Novels DR605 .S26 2015
ISBN: 9780374316983
Publication Date: 2015
As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Özge Samancı watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. In Özge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. Her older sister was a perfect student, and her dad hoped Özge would study hard, go to good schools, and become an engineer to find stability in their country's uncertain economic climate. But Özge was a dreamer and wanted adventure. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau? Or should she become a world-famous actress? This touching memoir shows how Özge dared to overcome both her family and her country's expectations to find happiness by being an artist.
Daytripper by Gabriel Ba; Fabio Moon
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.B73 M66 2011
ISBN: 9781401229696
Publication Date: 2011
DAYTRIPPER follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras' life in Brazil, and each story ends the same way--with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a different point in his life, oblivious to his death in the previous issue--and then ends with him dying again. In every chapter, Bras dies at different moments in his life, as the story follows him through his entire existence--one filled with possibilities of happiness and sorrow, good and bad, love and loneliness. Each issue rediscovers the many varieties of daily life, in a story about living life to its fullest--because any of us can die at any moment.
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia by Nora Krug
Call Number: Graphic Novels DK5449 .K78 2023
ISBN: 9781984862440
Publication Date: 2023
Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects--"K.," a Ukrainian journalist, and "D.," a Russian artist--and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war. With millions displaced, injured, or killed as a result of the invasion, Krug presents a look at the devastating effects on an everyday, individual level. K.'s diary documents a year of emotional and existential distress. She experiences loss in every sense of the death of those close to her, the disconnection from her family and friends, and the devastation of her country--but her account is also a story about bravery and survival in the face of dire uncertainty. In juxtaposition, D.'s narrative details his disdain for his government's murderous actions and his attempts at emigrating his family abroad. He navigates his own struggle with cultural identity, guilt, and lack of action in the face of a tyrannical regime--a perspective that is necessary in challenging readers to confront the political actions of their own countries.
Division to Unification in Imperial China: the three kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220-907) by Jing Liu
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DS735 .L58 2016 v.2
ISBN: 9781611720303
Publication Date: 2016
"Division to unification in imperial China" explores the Age of Division, a period of civil wars and foreign invasions, through to the Golden Age of the Tang dynasty, at the time the most powerful empire in the world, and its ultimate collapse. This same era saw the spread of new ideas and religions, like the profound learning movement, Buddhism, and Taoism.
Djeliya: A West African Fantasy Epic by Juni Ba
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.A358 .B3 2021
ISBN: 9781952203244
Publication Date: 2021
Inspired by West African folklore and stories handed down over centuries, follows the adventures of Mansour Keita, last prince of a dying kingdom, and Awa Kouyaté, his loyal Djeli, or 'royal storyteller' as they journey to meet the great wizard who destroyed their world and then withdrew into his tower, never to be seen again. On their journey they'll cross paths with friend and foe, from myth and legend alike, and revisit the traditions, tales, and stories that gave birth to their people and nurture them still. But what dark secret lies at the heart of these stories, and what purpose do their tellers truly serve?
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6733.B43 Z46 2022
ISBN: 9781770462892
Publication Date: 2022
Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham
Call Number: Graphic Novels E184.V53 P43 2023
ISBN: 9781250809711
Publication Date: 2023
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as Thien's mom and dad look for work. Potato chips are an indulgence that bring Thien so much joy that they become a necessity. Behind every cut of steak and inside every croissant lies a story. And for Thien Pham, that story is about a search-- for belonging, for happiness, for the American dream.
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
Call Number: Graphic Novels E184.C5 H85 2024
ISBN: 9780374601652
Publication Date: 2024
Tessa Hulls delves into her Chinese American family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife.
The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland by Feurat Alani; Léonard Cohen (Illustrator); Kendra Boileau (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS79.766.A53 A3 2024
ISBN: 9781637790670
Publication Date: 2024
A graphic memoir recounting the author's childhood in Iraq and his experiences during the Iraq War and its aftermath from 1989 to 2011.
Foundations of Chinese Civilization by Jing Liu
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DS735 .L58 2016 v.1
ISBN: 9781611720273
Publication Date: 2016
Discusses China's earliest history, from the reign of the Yellow Emperor to the collapse of the Han dynasty.
German Calendar: No December by Sylvia Ofili; Birgit Weyhe (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.N63 O35 2018
ISBN: 9781911115618
Publication Date: 2019
Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days spent listening to highlife records and poring over colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals. Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, her mother's homeland, where she is thrown into a hidden world of workers and migrants; a world of constant vigilance, where a piece of paper can hold the key to survival. Olivia finds she's too white for Nigeria and too black for Germany -- and so must learn to define herself and her place in the world beyond the labels that have been given to her.
The Ghost of Gaudi by El Torres; Mike Kennedy (Editor); Jesus Alonso (Artist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6777.T67 F36 2017
ISBN: 9781942367161
Publication Date: 2020-06-09
Someone is committing barbarous murders throughout Barcelona, focusing on locations designed by renowned visionary architect Antoni Gaudi. The police have no clues, but a young woman is thrust into the investigation by a man resembling the late Gaudi himself, led to the scenes of the crimes before they even occur... could be a precognizant ghost? A visual tour through the beautiful streets of Barcelona on a true edge-of-your-seat thriller written by El Torres and illustrated by Jesus Alonso, both natives of the city.
A Girl Called Echo: Omnibus by Katherena Vermette; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator); Donovan Yaciuk (Colorist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6733.V47 G57 2023
ISBN: 9781774920886
Publication Date: 2023
Métis teenager Echo Desjardins is struggling to adjust to a new school and a new home. When an ordinary history class turns extraordinary, Echo is pulled into a time-travelling adventure. Follow Echo as she experiences pivotal events from Métis history and imagines what the future might hold. This omnibus edition includes all four volumes in the A Girl Called Echo series: In Pemmican Wars, Echo finds herself transported to the prairies of 1814. She witnesses a bison hunt, visits a Métis camp, and travels the fur-trade routes. Experience the perilous era of the Pemmican Wars and the events that lead to the Battle of Seven Oaks. In Red River Resistance, we join Echo on the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. Canadian surveyors have arrived and Métis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears for the future of her people in Red River. In Northwest Resistance, Echo travels to 1885. The bison are gone and settlers from the East are arriving in droves. The Métis face starvation and uncertainty as both their survival and traditional way of life are threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises with the return of Louis Riel. In Road Allowance Era, Echo returns to 1885. Louis Riel is standing trial, and the government has not fulfilled its promise of land for the Métis. Burnt out of their home in Ste. Madeleine, Echo's people make their way to Rooster Town, a shanty community on the southwest edges of Winnipeg. In this final instalment, Echo is reminded of the strength and perseverance of the Métis. This special omnibus edition of Katherena Vermette's best-selling series features an all-new foreword by Chantal Fiola (Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities), a historical timeline, and an essay about Métis being and belonging by Brenda Macdougall (Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History).
Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6747.G59 J48 2015
ISBN: 9781561639144
Publication Date: 2015
The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's the 12th of February 1947, and the creme de la creme of Paris haute couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerised: it's a triumph! Soon, Clara is picked by Dior himself to be his model.
The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi (Created by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6790.J34 G57 2023
ISBN: 9781974736591
Publication Date: 2023
Mieri is an awkward, nerdy college student with no dating experience, and her previous crushes on fellow butch women have all ended in disaster. That all changes when she meets Ash and has her feelings returned for the first time. But when first love turns to first heartbreak, Mieri will do everything possible to win Ash back.
Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-won
Call Number: Graphic Novels D810.C698 H36 2023
ISBN: 9780804856638
Publication Date: 2023
Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine by Anaële Hermans; Delphine Hermans (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels S119.76 H47 2018
ISBN: 9781941302897
Publication Date: 2018
Anaële, a writer, leaves for Palestine volunteering in an aid program, swinging between her Palestinian friends and her Israeli friends. Delphine is an artist, left behind in Liáege, Belgium. From their different sides of the world, they exchange letters. Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine is a personal look into a complex reality, through the prism of the experience of a young woman writing letters to her sister about her feelings and adventures in the occupied territories.
Guantanamo Voices by Sarah Mirk; Omar El Akkad (Introduction by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels HV6432 .G83 2020
ISBN: 9781419746901
Publication Date: 2020
In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there--and 40 inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In Guantánamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantánamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens.
Hakim's Odyssey. Book 1, From Syria to Turkey by Fabien Toulmé; Hannah Chute (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels JV8747 T68 2021 v.1
ISBN: 9781637790007
Publication Date: 2021
What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy forthose who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others' experiences when you haven't been in their shoes. In Hakim's Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. After the Syrian uprising in 2011, Hakim was arrested and tortured, his town was bombed, his business was seized by the army, and members of his family were arrested or disappeared. This first leg of his odyssey follows Hakim as he travels from Syria to Lebanon, Lebanon to Jordan, and Jordan to Turkey, where he struggles to earn a living and dreams of one day returning to his home.
Hakim's Odyssey. Book 2, From Turkey to Greece by Fabien Toulmé; Hannah Chute (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels JV8747 T68 2021 v.2
ISBN: 9781637790083
Publication Date: 2022
What choices would you make to reunite your family? "You know, Hadi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama." In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family, which leads him to make the most difficult decision of his life. Captivating and deeply moving, this second book of the critically acclaimed Hakim's Odyssey follows the true story of a Syrian refugee as he tries to find his way in Turkey and then makes the perilous trek to what he hopes will be a more settled life in Europe.
Hakim's Odyssey. Book 3, From Macedonia to France by Fabien Toulmé; Hannah Chute (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels JV8747 T68 2021 v.3
ISBN: 9781637790311
Publication Date: 2022
After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach European soil, full of hope. But before they can get to France, they face a new series of challenges: overcrowded detention centers, run-ins with border police, and a persistent xenophobia that seems to follow them almost everywhere they go. Will Hakim's determination and the kindness of strangers be enough to carry him to the end of his journey and reunite his family? By turns heart-warming and heart-wrenching, this final installment in the Hakim's Odyssey trilogy follows Hakim and his son as they make their way from Macedonia to the south of France. Based on true events, it lays bare the tremendous effects that the policies of wealthy countries and the attitudes of their people have on the lives of the displaced and dispossessed.
Heartstopper. Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6737.O84 H43 2019 v.1
ISBN: 9781444951387
Publication Date: 2019
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore, and he's sort of got a boyfriend, even if he's kind of mean and only wants to meet up in secret. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie--the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months--but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him. That is, until the start of January, in which Nick and Charlie are placed in the same form group and made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...
Heartstopper. Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6737.O84 H43 2019 v.2
ISBN: 9781338617498
Publication Date: 2020
Nick and Charlie are best friends, but one kiss has changed everything. In the aftermath, Charlie is sure that Nick isn't interested, but Nick is more confused than ever. Love works in surprising ways, and Nick comes to see the world from a new perspective. He discovers all sorts of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.
Heartstopper. Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6737.O84 H43 2019 v.3
ISBN: 9781338617535
Publication Date: 2021
Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris. As Nick and Charlie's feelings get more serious, they'll need each other more than ever.
Heartstopper. Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6737.O84 H43 2019 v.4
ISBN: 9781338617559
Publication Date: 2022
Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick feels the same way, but he's got a lot on his mind -- especially the thought of coming out to his dad and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder. As a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick will have to learn what love really means.
Heartstopper: Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6737.O84 H43 2019 v.5
ISBN: 9781338807486
Publication Date: 2023
Nick and Charlie are in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house. He wants to take their relationship to the next level... but can he find the confidence he needs? And with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?
The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation by Peter Wohlleben; Fred Bernard; Benjamin Flao (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels QK475 .B47 2024
ISBN: 9781778401657
Publication Date: 2024
This vibrantly illustrated graphic novel follows Peter as its loveable main character, revealing the secret network of the forest and sharing struggles and triumphs from his career protecting trees. Told in Peter's warm, conversational voice, not unlike that of a beloved grandfather chatting fireside, this visually stunning book offers scientific insights and pearls of wisdom gained from Peter's decades of observing forests, including how trees impact weather and climate, how they communicate with each other, and how they interact with fungal networks deep within the ground. It also offers poignant memories from Peter's personal life.
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Lantazi; Francesco Matteuzzi
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor NE1325.K38 L38 2021
ISBN: 9781786278937
Publication Date: 2021
A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai. Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography tells the story of Hokusai's intriguing life and pioneering works, details the fascinating historical context of Edo-era Japan, and explains how Hokusai forged an image of his country that still resonates across the world today. Telling the story of both his eccentric (and incredibly productive) life - while simultaneously painting a fascination picture of his wider cultural legacy, this book is ideal for both those new to Hokusai's work - and his biggest fans.
Hshouma = Shame!: Bodies and Sexuality in Morocco by Zainab Fasiki
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ18.M8 F37 2024
ISBN: 9781912992560
Publication Date: 2024
The women Zainab Fasiki draws are compelling and real--whether naked, wearing the veil, in lingerie, in town or in the public baths. They celebrate the human form and its beauty, mocking a hypocritical masculinity that is afraid of bodies, and challenging one of the pillars on which patriarchal societies rest--whether in North Africa or in Western countries. Part artistic project, part educational initiative, but also playful and humorous, this graphic novel breaks down the taboos associated with sex education and gender identity and exposes everyday misogyny.
A House Without Windows by Didier Kassaï (Illustrator); Nanette McGuinness (Translator); Marc Ellison
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ792.C33 E45 2021
ISBN: 9781643375427
Publication Date: 2021
By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (Storm Over Bangui) comes a graphic documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photos and illustrations. In the Central African Republic, children grow up in a state of insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition. The land has become what many call "a house without windows." Through illustrations, photos, and videos (activated via QR codes), this comic takes readers into the heart of this "forgotten crisis." Central African artist Didier Kassai and British photojournalist Marc Ellison guide readers through the harsh stories of Bangui's children--slaving in diamond minds, housed in refugee camps--and showcase their inspirational courage in the face of unimaginable poverty.
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.
I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 I33 2017
ISBN: 9781944937300
Publication Date: 2017
Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's words cut through Kohei's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship changes Kohei forever.
I Hear the Sunspot. Theory of Happiness by Yuki Fumino
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 I33 2018
ISBN: 9781944937416
Publication Date: 2018
Due to the overwhelming success of I Hear the Sunspot, the sequel has finally arrived, I Hear the Sunspot: Theory of Happiness! How will this 'more than friends, less than lovers' relationship evolve? Because of a hearing disability Kohei is often alone. Taichi is outspoken and cheerful. At first, Kohei keeps himself well guarded, but after he meets Taichi he slowly learns to open up.
Ichi-F: a Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant by Kazuto Tatsuta
Call Number: Graphic Novels HV623 2011.F85 T37 2017
ISBN: 9781632363558
Publication Date: 2017
On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the largest earthquake in its modern history. The 9.0-magnitude quake threw up a devastating tsunami that wiped away entire towns, and caused, in the months afterward, three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Altogether, it was the costliest natural disaster in human history. This is not the story of that disaster. This is the story of a man who took a job. Kazuto Tatsuta was an amateur artist who signed onto the dangerous task of cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which the workers came to call "Ichi-F." This is the story of that challenging work, of the trials faced by the local citizens, and of the unique camaraderie that built up between the mostly blue-collar workers who had to face the devious and invisible threat of radiation on a daily basis. After six months, Tatsuta's body had absorbed the maximum annual dose of radiation allowed by regulations, and he was forced to take a break from the work crew, giving him the time to create this unprecedented, unauthorized, award-winning view of daily life at Fukushima Daiichi.
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS119.76 D45 2015
ISBN: 9781770461765
Publication Date: 2015
Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view ... for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian : checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays. When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle's drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything.
The King of Bangkok by Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara NatalucciClaudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6767.S677 R4313 2021
ISBN: 1487508867
Publication Date: 2021
Based on a decade of interviews and archival research, the English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the urban capital and return to his native village. The King of Bangkok follows Nok as he walks the streets of the city for the last time, trying to get rid of his last five lottery tickets. With each ticket he sells, he encounters something that brings him back to a period of his life, from his arrival in Bangkok all the way to the Red Shirt protests of 2010. Through an alternation of reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, we reconstruct Nok's story, the love story with his wife Gai, and the ups and downs of their migrant lives, as well as those of an entire country around them. This is a story of migration to the city and distant families in the countryside; economic development eroding the land, and of political protest choked in blood. Ultimately, it is a story about contemporary Thailand and how the waves of history lift, engulf, or crash two ordinary people. A perfect entry into the history of contemporary Thailand, this book is essential reading for both students and travelers.
Kwändǖr : Story by Cole Pauls
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6733.P38 K83 2022
ISBN: 9781772620771
Publication Date: 2022
Cole Pauls returns with Kwändǖr, a short story collection of Southern Tutchone and Yukon tales. Gathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops, these comics are Pauls's most personal work yet. You'll learn stories about the author's family, racism and identity, Yukon history, winter activities, Southern Tutchone language lessons and cultural practices. Have you ever wanted to learn how to Knuckle Hop? or to acknowledge and respect the Indigenous land you're on? or how to be an ally to Indigenous people? Well, gather around and hear this Kwändǖr! (Story!)
Lampedusa : Image Stories from the Edge of Europe by Estelle Blaschke (Editor); Mohamed El-Seht (Editor); Emilie Josso (Editor); Leon Kahane (Editor); Lisa Bergmann (Editor); Paula Bulling (Editor); Elisa Calore (Editor); Haitham El-Seht (Editor); Anne König (Editor)
Call Number: Graphic Novels P94.5.I48 M54 2017
ISBN: 9783959051750
Publication Date: 2018
Images are just as much in motion as people. In a globalized world they can move faster and more freely than humans. When artist Armin Linke was invited more than seven years ago to participate in a photographic project on the island of Lampedusa, he left his camera at home because he thought that there would already be plenty of photos available there. Instead, he took with him on the trip a team from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design so that they could talk with local image makers about their photographs. Four years later, he approached Spector Books about the possibility of turning the photos and interview material he had collected into a book. The publishing house studied the pictures and suggested adopting the form of a photo-graphic novel, in which drawings comment on the photographs, thus creating an external perspective on the images. In the course of their research, the Migrant Image Research Group spoke with other image makers: with the Italian photo agency Contrasto in Rome, with representatives of the European Border Agency Frontex in Warsaw, and with a picture editor from the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al-Ahram weekly in Cairo. All image makers have a particular agenda and use their photographs for specific purposes--to inform, to foment fear, to arouse compassion, or to monitor borders. Our book ... addresses all these aspects and also tells of the search for empathic images and the incidental shots with which refugees record their daily lives on mobile phones
Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches by Yazan Al-Saadi
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS39.3 .A47 2024
ISBN: 9781637790786
Publication Date: 2024
Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination. Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements' success. This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s in such places as Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and Bahrain. A collaboration between writer and journalist Yazan Al-Saadi and a lineup of stellar cartoonists from the region--including Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirène Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma, and Enas Satir--this graphic reportage serves as a witness to an era of counterrevolutionary resurgence in which entrenched powers clashed with the people's struggle for self-determination.
Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe
Call Number: Graphic Novels N6853.C34 R69 2023
ISBN: 9781947440074
Publication Date: 2023
This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore.
Listen, Beautiful Márcia by Marcelo Quintanilha; Andrea Rosenberg (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic PN6790.B73 Q56 2023
ISBN: 9781683967774
Publication Date: 2023
Márcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang, leading to violent altercations between mother and daughter. The situation degenerates even more when Jaqueline is arrested. Márcia and Aluisio, distraught, realize that Jaqueline is in deeper trouble than they ever thought. Marcello Quintanilha's first English-language graphic novel is a tour de force -- a tightly wound drama filled with masterful suspense and a deep love for family and character.
The Making of Modern China: The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty 1368-1912 by Jing Liu
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DS735 .L58 2016 v.4
ISBN: 9781611720396
Publication Date: 2017
The fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly productive Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus under the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. The book also addresses Wang Yangming's School of Mind and the painful process of modernization and conflict with the West and Japan, including the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion.

Comics at Marist Depicting Other Countries

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V; Filipe Andrade (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6790.I43 V23 2022
ISBN: 9781684158058
Publication Date: 2022
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. The avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life?
Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World: An (Ethno) Graphic Novel by Tuki Drake
Call Number: Graphic Novels GN662 .D73 2022
ISBN: 9780824884567
Publication Date: 2022
Mata, the word for "eye" in numerous Austronesian languages, represents the common origin of the many distinctive Austronesian peoples spread throughout their vast oceanic realm. The tales in this book immerse us in the beauty of this shared heritage, ancestral memory, and cultural legacy. From Madagascar to Rapa Nui, Austronesia is a diverse, complex, and extensive ethnolinguistic region stretching across more than half of the Earth's saltwater expanse. This work showcases the abundance of unique identities, histories, ethnicities, cultures, languages, and storytelling traditions among people of Austronesian descent. Modern-day storytellers weave the past and present into a tapestry of tales passed down orally through generations and contextualize the staggering immensity of the cosmos, imparting meaning to visible and invisible realms. Mata Austronesia opens fresh avenues of connection and conversation between Austronesian peoples who live on their native islands and in diaspora, who are both unified and long-separated by oceans of time, space, and Western colonial and cartographic impositions. It includes stories from Ka Pae ʻAina o Hawaiʻi, Rapa Nui, Tahiti, Tahaʻa, Kanaky (New Caledonia), Guåhan (Guam), Aotearoa (New Zealand), Viti (Fiji), Bali, Sulawesi (Celebes), Bohol (Visayas), Tutuila (American Samoa), Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Banaba (Ocean Island), and Madagasikara (Madagascar).
Meanwhile... : Graphic Short Stories About Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa by Qintu Collab
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ76.25 .Q56 2019
ISBN: 9780620852630
Publication Date: 2019
The lived realities of young queer people in African contexts are not well documented. On the one hand, homophobic political discourse tends to portray queer people as 'deviant' and 'unAfrican', and on the other, public health research and advocacy often portrays them as victims of violence and HIV. Of course, young queer lives are far more diverse, rich and complex. For this reason, the Qintu Collab was formed to allow young queer people from a few African countries to come together, share experiences and create context-specific, queer-positive media that documents relatable stories about and for queer African youth. We see this as a necessary step in developing a complex archive of queer African life, whilst also personalising queer experiences and challenging prejudicial stereotypes. The Collab is made up of eighteen queer youth from Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, two academics, three artists and a journalist. We first worked in small groups in each country through a range of creative participatory methods that focused on personal reflection and story-telling. Young people created personal timelines, and made visual maps of their bodies, relationships, and spaces. We then had group discussions about themes that emerged to help decide what to include in the comic works. At the end of 2018, we all came together in Nairobi, Kenya, for a week to collaborate on this comic book, and a set of podcasts on similar topics. We worked through various ways of telling stories, and developed significant themes, including family, religion and spirituality, social and online queer spaces, sex, and romantic relationships. Each young person created a script and laid out the scenes for a comic that told a short story from their lives. They then worked one-on-one with an artist to finesse those ideas into a workable comic, and the artists thereafter developed each story through multiple rounds of feedback from the story's creator and the rest of the group.
Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo; Maria Schroderus (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels RC394.H37 T35 2023
ISBN: 9781637152027
Publication Date: 2023
In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, the days and nights spent in an intensive care unit, and the long, painful recovery that led the artist to reflect on her life both past and present. Much more than a story of survival, Memento Mori is a philosophical and psychological journey told with exceptional honesty and compassion. A deeply moving and insightful graphic novel from a master of the medium that is also ultimately a celebration of life
The Mental Load : a Feminist Comic by Emma
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ1150 .E45 2018
ISBN: 9781609809188
Publication Date: 2018
In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organising, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. In her strips Emma deals with themes ranging from maternity leave (it is not a vacation!), domestic violence, the clitoris, the violence of the medical world on women during childbirth, and other feminist issues, and she does so in a straightforward way that is both hilarious and deadly serious. Emma's comics also address the everyday outrages and absurdities of immigrant rights, income equality, and police violence.
Messy Roots: a Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; F395.C5 G365 2022
ISBN: 9780063067776
Publication Date: 2022
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where their hometown is as foreign as Mars--at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates their coming-of-age as the kid who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make their heart flutter. Insightful, original, and hilarious, toggling seamlessly between past and present, China and America, Gao's debut is a tour de force of graphic storytelling.
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6727.M365 Z46 2023
ISBN: 9780593462287
Publication Date: 2023
Pedro/Peter Martín is a Mexikid, or a kid born in the U.S. to parents from Mexico, a kid who doesn't quite belong to either place. So he's not sure what to expect when his dad announces that the whole family (all 11 of them!) will be piling into their Winnebago to drive 2,000 miles down to Mexico with a mission: bring their mysterious, Mexican-Revolution-era abuelito home to live with them. But their grandfather has a mission of his own, and he won't leave Mexico until it's complete. This deeply personal and hilarious graphic memoir captures an unforgettable journey filled with cousins, comics, heartbreak, and newly discovered family history. It's the story of one Mexikid in search of his grito...all on the road trip of a lifetime.
The Minamata Story by Sean Michael Wilson; Akiko Shimojima (Illustrator); Brian Small (Introduction by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels RA1231.M5 W55 2021
ISBN: 9781611720563
Publication Date: 2021
A powerful graphic novel /manga that tells the story of "Minamata disease," a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into the waters of the coastal community of Minamata in southern Japan. First identified in 1956, it became a hot topic in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, growing into an iconic struggle between people versus corporations and government agencies. This struggle is relevant today, not simply because many people are still living with the disease but also because, in this time of growing concern over the safety of our environment--viz. Flint, Michigan--Minamata gives us as a very moving example of such human-caused environmental disasters and what we can do about them.
Mothballs by Sole Otero; Andrea Rosenberg (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.A73 O84 2024
ISBN: 9781683969617
Publication Date: 2024
In this moving family saga, a teenage woman uncovers the hushed history of sexual violence that shattered her grandmother's life. San Martín, Argentina, 2001. Upon her estranged grandmother Vilma's death, 19-year-old Rocío moves into a house haunted by memories. Seeking a deeper understanding, Ro delves into her family history and uncovers the episodes of violence and betrayal that shattered Vilma's dreams. All the while, the familiar scent of mothballs permeating the estate serves to remind Ro of the ineluctable spell of the past that she must break in order to forge her own path in life. Tender, heartrending, and leavened with biting humor, Mothballs is at once a moving family saga and a poignant reflection on the need to hold fast to one's identity, despite how painful it can be.
Movements and Moments by Sonja Eismann (Editor); Maya (Compiler); Ingo Schöningh (Compiler)
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ1236 .M68 2022
ISBN: 9781770465619
Publication Date: 2022
In 1930s Bolivia, self-described Anarchist Cholas formed a libertarian trade union. In the Northern Highlands of Vietnam, the songs of one girl's youth lead her to a life of activism. In the Philippines, female elders from Kalinga blaze a trail when pushed into an impromptu protest. Equally striking accounts from, Chile, Ecuador, India, Nepal, and Peru weave a tapestry of trauma and triumph, shedding light on not-too-distant histories otherwise overlooked. Indigenous Peoples all over the world have always had to stand their ground in the face of colonialism. While the details may differ, what these stories have in common is their commitment to resistance in a world that puts profit before respect, and western notions of progress before their own. Movements and Moments is an introductory glimpse into how Indigenous Peoples tell these stories in their own words. From Southeast Asia to South America, vibrant communities must grapple with colonial realities to assert ownership over their lands and traditions. This project was undertaken in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Indonesien in Jakarta. These stories were selected from an open call across forty-two countries to spotlight feminist movements and advocacies in the Global South.
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter by Muhammad Najem; Nora Neus; Julie Robine (Artist)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; DS98.72.N34 A3 2022
ISBN: 9780759556898
Publication Date: 2022
Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his father was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, he didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. Determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria--and armed only with the camera on his phone--Muhammad started reporting on the war on social media. He interviewed other kids to show they were just like kids in other countries, with their own hopes and dreams. Despite unimaginable loss, Muhammad sought to document the humanity of the Syrian people...and eventually the world took notice. A graphic memoir told by Muhammad himself along with CNN producer Nora Neus, who helped break Muhammad's story.
Mutupo. Volume one, Soko by Kay Rwizi
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.Z554 M88 2024 v.1
ISBN: 9781427877307
Publication Date: 2024
Mutupo -- the totem -- is an animal or object deemed sacred by a clan or tribe. For centuries, Zimbabweans would stay in touch with their ancestry and the practices surrounding their culture by embracing Mutupo. There are some who have the ability to use their totem animal's attributes as a superpower to augment their physiology. Using Mutupo is not only rare -- it's also highly illegal. Join Shingai on his journey of self-discovery as he finds himself coming up against other Mutupo users... and the police who oppose them.
My Brother's Husband, Volumes 1 And 2 by Gengoroh Tagame; Anne Ishii (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 M93 2020
ISBN: 9780375715181
Publication Date: 2020
Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented, revelatory look at and journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it.
Okinawa by Susumu Higa; Jocelyne Allen (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS894.99.O375 H54 2023
ISBN: 9781683961185
Publication Date: 2023
A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of the War. The first collection, Sword of Sand, is a ground level, unflinching look at the horrors of the Battle of Okinawa. Higa then turns an observant eye to the present-day in Mabui (Okinawan for "spirit"), where he explores how the American occupation has irreversibly changed the island prefecture, through the lens of the archipelago's indigenous spirituality and the central character of the yuta priestess.
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.
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki; Jocelyne Allen (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 O59 2022
ISBN: 9781770466302
Publication Date: 2022
The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world. Kokopo, 1943: A platoon of soldiers is ordered into battle. The objective is death. The alternative is certain execution as a consequence of survival. Inspired by Eisner Award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's own mandatory tour of duty as an active combatant in the Imperial Japanese Army, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths portrays a flailing infantry unit on its last legs near the end of the Second World War. This deeply personal and landmark anti-war work could only have been made by a pacifist. The desperation and moral depravity on display is devastating. Mizuki's fanciful characters must make do against a photo-realistic backdrop teeming with tropical life that remains inhospitable. Indeed, commanding officers prove even more ferocious than the wild unknown of Papua New Guinea. And yet the human instinct endures, seeing through the absurdity of such a rigid and outdated command structure with gallows humor.
Ordinary Victories by Manu Larcenet (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6747.L37 O73 2005
ISBN: 9781561634231
Publication Date: 2005
A 20-something photographer is embroiled in crisis in both his life and art. His artwork does not satisfy him; his elderly parents and working-class childhood weigh on him; and his crippling panic attacks are becoming more frequent.
Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DK510.76 .L66 2017
ISBN: 9780997031843
Publication Date: 2017
Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow's protest and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching art to children at juvenile prisons--all while drawing their stories. Her portraits give voice to Russia's many voiceless citizens and allow readers to see them as she does: with dignity, compassion, and love.
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS119.7 .S23 2015
ISBN: 9781560974321
Publication Date: 2001
Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestinian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories.
Papaya Salad by Elisa Macellari
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6767.M33 P37 2020
ISBN: 9781506719139
Publication Date: 2020
The debut graphic novel from Thai-Italian illustrator Elisa Macellari, Papaya Salad tells the story of her great-uncle Sompong who found himself in Europe on military scholarship on the eve of World War I. A gentle and resolute man in love with books and languages, in search of his place in the world, Sompong chronicles his life during the war and falling for his wife, finding humor and joy even as the world changes irrevocably around him.
Pardalita by Joana Estrela; Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.P83 E88 2023
ISBN: 9781646142552
Publication Date: 2023
16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each other while working on a play. And Raquel falls in love. Using a gorgeous blend of prose poems, illustrations, and graphic novel format, Estrela captures the feeling of being a teenager in a way that feels gentle, joyful, and real.
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; E99.C59 S23 2020
ISBN: 9781627799034
Publication Date: 2020
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to "remove the Indian from the child"; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture--recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.
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.
Petar & Liza by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja; Jenna Allen (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.C873 S45 2024
ISBN: 9781683969648
Publication Date: 2024
When Petar returns home to civilian life after his two-year conscription in the ex-Yugoslavian army, he finds himself adrift. Even amidst the most raucous, late-night parties, he feels detached from it all, like a ghost haunting the living. But a serendipitous encounter with Liza, a dancer with a joie de vivre about her, brings a flood of vibrant color into his gray life. Their lyrical romance forms an oasis in a bleak world, until his inner demons start to reveal themselves.
Photographic : the life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels TR140.I88 Q56 2018
ISBN: 9781947440005
Publication Date: 2018
Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide wants to be a writer, but her conservative family has a different idea. Although she initially follows their wishes, she soon grows restless. After tragedy strikes, she turns to photography to better understand the world. The photographic journey she embarks on takes her throughout Mexico and around the globe, introducing her to fascinating people and cultures, and eventually bringing her success and fame. With more than two dozen photographs by Iturbide herself, Photographic explores the questions of what it means to become an artist.
Policing the City: An Ethno-Graphic by Didier Fassin; Frédéric Debomy; Jake Raynal (Illustrator); Rachel Gomme (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels HV8203 .F37 2022
ISBN: 9781635422504
Publication Date: 2022
Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from dramatic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts can obscure a crucial aspect of police work: the tedium of everyday patrols and paperwork, under a constant pressure to meet numbers. Around the time of the 2005 French riots, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin spent fifteen months observing up close the daily life of an anti-crime squad in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region. His unprecedented study, which sparked intense discussion about policing in the largely working-class, immigrant suburbs, remains acutely relevant in light of all-too-common incidents of police brutality against minorities. This new, powerfully illustrated adaptation clearly presents the insights of Fassin's investigation, and draws connections to the challenges we face today.
Power born of dreams: my story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS113.6 .S33 2021
ISBN: 9781951491147
Publication Date: 2021
What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: "You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories," stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of the West Bank, of Jerusalem, of Palestine. The two collect threads of memory and intergenerational trauma from ongoing settler-colonialism. Helping us to see that the prison is much larger than a building, far wider than a cell; it stretches through towns and villages, past military checkpoints and borders. But hope and solidarity can stretch farther, deeper, once strength is drawn of stories and power is born of dreams. Translating headlines into authentic lived experiences, these stories come to life in the striking linocut artwork of Mohammad Sabaaneh, helping us to see Palestinians not as political symbols, but as people.
Run for it : stories of slaves who fought for their freedom by Marcelo D'Salete
Call Number: Graphic Novels HT1126 .S23 2017
ISBN: 9781683960492
Publication Date: 2017
Run for It--a starkly stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d'Salete--is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to confront Brazil's hidden history of slavery. Seen through the eyes of its victims, Run for It tells of ordinary slaves who rebel against their masters. Run for It's vivid illustrations and magical realism engage the reader's poetic imagination through stories of individual suffering caused by the horrors of slavery. Originally published in Brazil--where it was nominated for three of the country's most prestigious comics awards--Run for It has received rave reviews worldwide. These intense tales offer a tragic and gripping portrait of one of history's darkest corners. It's hard to look away.
Run on Your New Legs, Vol. 1 by Wataru Midori
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6790.J34 R86 2022 v.1
ISBN: 9781975339005
Publication Date: 2022
Shouta Kikuzato's hopes of starting on his school's prestigious soccer team are derailed when a terrible incident costs him his leg. Now in his first year of high school (again), Kikuzato has resigned himself to never reaching his athletic dreams. But when Chidori, a passing prosthetist, notices Kikuzato's artificial limb-- and speed--as he races through the train station, the specialist proposes a partnership: Chidori will build Kikuzato a brand-new leg designed solely for speed. All Kikuzato has to do is run!
Run on Your New Legs, 2 by Wataru Midori
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 R86 2022 v.2
ISBN: 9781975345709
Publication Date: 2022
The race in Shibuya has given Kikuzato a taste of what running and competing on a blade could be, but it will take more than a new leg for him to truly be a contender the next time he races. Kikuzato needs to learn how to run, and Usami is only too happy to give him some pointers after school at track and field club. Kikuzato thought his days of training with a team were behind him, but with the club members' help, the path to becoming a runner opens before him--though not without a few hurdles along the way!
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco; Christopher Hitchens
Call Number: Graphic Novels DR1313.32.G67 S33 2000
ISBN: 9781560974703
Publication Date: 2002
The long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water.
Saints by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator); Lark Pien (Inked or colored by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor PN6727.Y36 S25 2013
ISBN: 9781596436893
Publication Date: 2013
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finally finds friendship-- and a name, Vibiana -- in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is in full swing, and bands of young men roam the countryside, murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian friends, Vibiana will have to decide where her true loyalties lie-- and whether she is willing to die for her faith.
Showa: a History of Japan. 1926-1939 by Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS888.5 .M59 2013 v.1
ISBN: 9781770461352
Publication Date: 2013
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. When the Showa era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the time. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers. As he describes the militarization that leads up to World War II, Mizuki's stance toward war is thoughtful and often downright critical--his portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre clearly paints the incident (a disputed topic within Japan) as an atrocity. Mizuki's Showa 1926-1939 is a beautifully told history that tracks how technological developments and the country's shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan's foreign policy in the early twentieth century.
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6790.E3 M84 2022
ISBN: 9781524748418
Publication Date: 2023
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik-a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic-is the story of three characters navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale; mired in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the more expensive the wish, the more powerful and therefore the more likely to work as intended. The novel's three distinct parts tell the story of three first class wishes as used by Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, each grappling with the challenge inherent in trying to make your most deeply held desire come true. Deena's mix of calligraphy and contemporary styles, brings to life a vibrant Cairene neighborhood, and a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are deeply resonant.
Smile Through the Tears: The Story of the Rwandan Genocide by Rupert Bazambanza
Call Number: Graphic Novels DT450.435 .B39 2005
ISBN: 9782921757263
Publication Date: 2005
Hell exists. It's here on earth. It's called hatred and racial discrimination, and I saw it with my own eyes during the Tutsi genocide that took place in Rwanda between April and July of 1994. I am one of the few to have escaped such a fate, and the events I am about to relate have been seared into my soul.
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.
Spanish fever : stories by the new Spanish cartoonists by Eddie Campbell (Introduction by); Santiago Garcia (Editor); Paco Roca (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6776 .S63 2016
ISBN: 9781606999448
Publication Date: 2016
Fantagraphics Books is proud to introduce American readers to more than 30 artists working on the cutting edge of the form. Spanish Fever is an anthology showcasing the best of the new wave of art comics from a country with one of the strongest cartoon traditions in Europe. It includes the work of masters of the form such as Paco Roca, Miguel Gallardo, David Rubín and Miguel Ángel Martín as well as newcomers like José Domingo, Anna Galvañ, Álvaro Ortiz and Sergi Puyol.
Still Alive: Graphic Reportage from Australia's Immigration Detention System by Safdar Ahmed
Call Number: Graphic Novels JV9133 .A36 2022
ISBN: 9781683966876
Publication Date: 2022
Still alive documents the conditions, experiences and deprivations of Australia's system of mandatory and indefinite detention for asylum seekers and refugees. Drawing from Safdar Ahmed's experiences as a volunteer in Sydney's Villawood detention centre, it contains the testimony of refugees and workers in a system that is often decried by human rights organisations for its cruelty. This is a work of observation and collaboration, collating Ahmed's experiences as an art workshop facilitator with the testimony and artwork of refugees who are held in immigration detention. Still Alive eschews stereotypical representations of the refugee as either a threat to Australia's system of 'border protection', or as a victim who lacks initiative and agency. What emerges is a deeply impacting account of the refugee journey and the profound consequences of indefinite incarceration that asylum seekers experience upon reaching Australia.
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David A. Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator); Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator); Murray Sinclair (Foreword by); Betty Ross (Afterword by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor E96.5 .R63 2021
ISBN: 9781553799757
Publication Date: 2021
From Governor-General's Award-winning writer David A. Robertson comes this special edition of the timeless graphic novel that introduced the world to the awe-inspiring resilience of Betty Ross, and shared her story of strength, family, and culture. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalled the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive. Sugar Falls is based on the true story of Betty Ross, Elder from Cross Lake First Nation. We wish to acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, Betty's generosity in sharing her story. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Sugar Falls goes to support the bursary program for The Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Foundation. This 10th-anniversary edition brings David A. Robertson's national bestseller to life in full colour, with a foreword by Senator Murray Sinclair, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and a touching afterword from Elder Betty Ross herself.
Surviving the city. Vol. 1 by Tasha Spillett-Sumner; Natasha Donovan (Illustrator); Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6733.S65 S87 2018 v.1
ISBN: 9781553797562
Publication Date: 2019
Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't? Colonialism and the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People are explored in Natasha Donovan's beautiful illustrations.
Surviving the City. Vol. 2, From the Roots Up by Tasha Spillett-Sumner; Natasha Donovan (Illustrator); Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6733.S65 S87 2018 v.2
ISBN: 9781553798989
Publication Date: 2020
Dez and Miikwan's stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City. Dez's grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she's living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person. Miikwan is crushing on the school's new kid Riel, but doesn't really understand what Dez is going through. Will she learn how to be a supportive ally to her best friend? Elder Linda is doing her best to be supportive, but she doesn't know how to respond when the gendered protocols she's grown up with that are being thrown into question. Will Dez be comfortable expressing her full identity? And will her community relearn the teachings and overcome prejudice to celebrate her for who she is?
The Third Population by Aurélien Ducoudray; Jeff Pourquié; Kendra Boileau (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels RC450.F82 C44 2020
ISBN: 9780271087177
Publication Date: 2020
Founded in 1956, the French psychiatric clinic La Chesnaie is an open and welcoming facility that houses about one hundred people of all ages. It provides traditional forms of care for people with serious mental illness, but it does so in a uniquely supportive environment where patients and caregivers participate equally in the day-to-day operations of the clinic. The driving force of La Chesnaie is the "Club," a nonprofit organization serving as a liaison between the clinic and the outside world. It arranges cultural and recreational outings for the patients as well as activities like concerts and exhibitions that bring the public to La Chesnaie. As a result, days at the clinic are quite lively and never routine. Author Aurélien Ducoudray and illustrator Jeff Pourquié immersed themselves for a time in the culture of La Chesnaie. Like everyone there, including the patients, supervisors, and caregivers, they took part in the daily chores of the clinic, cooking and cleaning. They participated in group events and even led a comics workshop to teach the residents about their craft. The Third Population is the engaging, inspiring, and often poignantly funny result of this project. The Third Population is a sensitive and uncompromising portrayal of daily life in this singular psychiatric health facility where patients are encouraged to build human relationships in spite of the difficulties that mental illness can pose. As the supervisors and caregivers take part in the daily activities of their patients, differences are erased and empathic bonds are formed, with the result that sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the patients from the caregivers.
This Place : 150 Years Retold by Alicia Elliott (Foreword)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6732 .T48 2019
ISBN: 9781553797586
Publication Date: 2019
Explores the past 150 years of Canada through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this graphic novel anthology. These stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp; K. Mateus (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6733.V36 T57 2015
ISBN: 9781553795360
Publication Date: 2015
Three young men -- Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert -- have vandalized their community. They are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for their actions and acquire the humility required to return home. But will they be forgiven for what they have done? Three Feathers explores the power and grace of restorative justice in one Northern Indigenous community and the cultural legacy that can empower future generations.
The Thud by Mikael Ross
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6757.R67 T58 2018
ISBN: 9781683964063
Publication Date: 2021
There's a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities - the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told entirely from a developmentally impaired young man's perspective. Noel had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a beard tells him he can't stay in the apartment anymore and takes him to a place with so many strangers ? Who can he trust? Who does he like? Who loves him?
Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang; Adrien Gombeaud; Ameziane (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS779.32 .Z43 2020
ISBN: 9781684056996
Publication Date: 2020
Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident--otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre--from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.
Tokyo on foot : travels in the city's most colorful neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS896.35 .C4413 2011
ISBN: 9784805311370
Publication Date: 2011
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and businesswomen, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, police officers, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent.
Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki; Zack Davisson (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.J34 T66 2021
ISBN: 9781770464360
Publication Date: 2021
Shigeru Mizuki--Japan's grand master of Yokai comics--adapts one of the most important works of supernatural literature into comic book form. The cultural equivalent of Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, Tono Monogatari is a defining text of Japanese folklore and one of the country's most important works of literature. This graphic novel was created during the later stage of Mizuki's career, after he had retired from the daily grind of commercial comics to create personal, lasting works of art. Originally written in 1910 by folklorists and field researchers Kunio Yanagita and Kizen Sasaki, Tono Monogatari celebrates and archives legends from the Tono region. These stories were recorded as Japan's rapid modernization led to the disappearance of traditional culture. This adaptation mingles the original text with autobiography: Mizuki attempts to retrace Yanagita and Sasaki's path, but finds his old body is not quite up to the challenge of following in their footsteps. As Mizuki wanders through Tono he retells some of the most famous legends, manifesting a host of monsters, dragons, and foxes. In the finale, Mizuki meets Yanagita himself and the two sit down to discuss their works.
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by C. L. R. James; Nic Watts (Adapted by); Sakina Karimjee (Adapted by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels F1923 .W38 2023
ISBN: 9781788737906
Publication Date: 2023
When C.L.R. James's play 'Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History' opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time Black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a Black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among James's archives, and now this extraordinary drama has been turned into a graphic novel by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
Call Number: Graphic Novels - 2nd Floor ; PN6790.N454 T86 2019
ISBN: 9780994141576
Publication Date: 2020
#Tumeke! brings you the lives, loves and larrikin spirit of an inner-city neighborhood in New Zealand, as community members prepare for the annual Waitangi Day festival. The story is told through texts, Instagram posts, emails, fliers, committee minutes, posters, diary entries, blog posts, chatrooms, school homework, raps and the reliably bonkers community noticeboard. Stuffed with big personalities, surprising friendships and a little intrigue, this multimedia story brims with creativity and comedy, and everyday heartaches, too.
Umma's Table by Yeon-sik Hong; Janet Hong (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.K63 H66 2020
ISBN: 9781770463868
Publication Date: 2020
Madang is an artist and new father who moves to a quiet home in the countryside with his wife and young baby, excited to build a new life full of hope and joy, complete with a garden and even snow. But soon reality sets in and his attention is divided between his growing happy family and his impoverished parents back in Seoul in a dingy basement apartment. With an ailing mother in and out of the hospital and an alcoholic father, Madang struggles to overcome the exhaustion and frustration of trying to be everything all at once: a good son, devoted father, and loving husband. To cope, he finds himself reminiscing about their family meals together, particularly his mother's kimchi, a traditional dish that is prepared by the family and requires months of fermentation. Memories of his mother's glorious cooking--so good it would prompt a young Madang and his brother into song--soothe the family. With her impending death, Madang races to learn her recipes and bring together the three generations at the family table while it's still possible. This is a beautiful and thoughtful meditation on how the kitchen and communal cooking--in the past, present, and future--bind a family together amidst the inevitable.
Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-sik Hong; Hellen Jo (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels NC1729.H66 A2 2017
ISBN: 9781770462601
Publication Date: 2017
When the gentler pace and stillness of the countryside replace the roar of the city, but your editor keeps calling. With gorgeously detailed yet minimal art, cartoonist Yeon-Sik Hong explores his move with his wife to a small house atop a rural mountain, replacing the high-rent hubbub of Seoul with the quiet murmur of the country. With their dog, cats, and chickens by their side, the simple life and isolation they so desperately craved proves to present new anxieties. Hong paints a beautiful portrait of the Korean countryside, changing seasons, and the universal relationships humans have with each other as well as nature, both of which are sometimes frustrating but always rewarding. Uncomfortably Happily is translated by American cartoonist Hellen Jo from the acclaimed Manhwa Today award-winning Korean edition.
Uprooted: A Memoir about What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6733.C43 U67 2024
ISBN: 9781250855336
Publication Date: 2024
Ruth is moving to Hong Kong. And she is not happy about it. She's going to miss her best friends, her favorite ketchup-flavored potato chips, and Toronto, the only home she's ever known. Her mom is excited to reunite with her family, but it's not the same for Ruth. In Hong Kong, her classes are harder, her Cantonese isn't good enough, and her parents are never around. Ruth feels lonely and completely unrooted. But as Ruth's dad tells stories about her family -- how they found strength and courage to survive the most difficult times -- Ruth realizes that she too can be strong. Gradually, she puts down roots, knowing she can always find home, wherever she is.
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.
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Janet Hong (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels PN6790.K63 G46 2021
ISBN: 9781770464575
Publication Date: 2021
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can't stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother.
The Way Forward: From Early Republic to People's Republic (1912-1949) by Jing Liu; Lorie Hammond (Foreword by)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS735 .L58 2016 v.4
ISBN: 9781611720709
Publication Date: 2022
China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the the direction of reconstruction. Civil wars ensued, followed by WWI. The fate of the country appeared to be in the hands of industrial powers like Britain, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. All seemed lost when Japan seized all Chinese seaports, railways, industries, and fertile farmland. Yet Chinese resistance continued for eight years and the entire society was mobilized. After decades of struggling, China finally regained independence that laid the foundation for its own modernization.
We're All Just Fine by Ana Penyas; Andrea Rosenberg (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels HQ1692 .P46 2023
ISBN: 9781683965800
Publication Date: 2023
Artist Ana Penyas's grandmothers Maruja and Herminia live alone in their respective Spanish towns, largely neglected by their children and relatives, who never visit. But when Ana comes to see them, she realizes that these women, whose day-to-day existences now seem mundane, experienced firsthand an incredibly tumultuous and fascinating period of Spanish history. In We're All Just Fine, Penyas weaves the memories of her grandmothers to craft a narrative quilt that pieces together what it was like for women to assimilate to Spain's dramatic political and cultural shifts in the late 1970s and '80s. The sudden transition from the authoritarian, repressive Franco regime to lively and liberating democracy was at once incredibly freeing but also destabilizing for women used to their traditional roles as dutiful housewives. Through this intimate lens into her grandmothers' daily struggle -- of their silence, the small acts of rebellion, and great gestures of resilience -- Penyas gives voice to an entire generation of "invisible'' women whose stories have rarely been told.
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.
What Remains: Personal and Political Histories of Colombia by Camilo Aguirre
Call Number: Graphic Novels F2271 .A38 2022
ISBN: 9781941250495
Publication Date: 2022
What Remains is an innovative graphic novel that weaves documentary and memoir forms to capture the sociopolitical fabric of Colombia, spanning 200 years. Camilo Aguirre dips in and out of pivotal historical periods, all while skillfully interweaving family histories and anecdotes of students, union workers, and guerilla fighters. He creates a critical, unflinching vision of Colombia that is profoundly mobilizing in its search for resolution. Aguirre is hopeful throughout, but he refuses to step into the trap of fictitious optimism. The people and the families represent a detailed composite portrait of life in Colombia, sketched from opposing ends of the political spectrum. Colombia is inextricable from its people's complex lives and identities, as well as the lives of Aguirre and his family. Aguirre narrates the complexities from a distant Minneapolis. He details the tides of power and politics, from American and corporate interventions to internal hierarchies of wealth and power, and finally to the impact of emerging globalization and neoliberalism. The criminalization and persecution of union workers and students propagate amidst these political phases. What Remains poses a question. Aguirre answers through a profoundly personal lens and demonstrates that what remains of Colombia are the rich and varied lives of its people.
With the light : raising an autistic child. 1 by Keiko Tobe
Call Number: Graphic Novels RJ506.A9 T62 2007 v.1
ISBN: 9780759523562
Publication Date: 200709-24
To new mother Sachiko Azuma, her baby boy is the light of her life. Accordingly, she names him Hikaru, Japanese of 'to be bright.' Eager to raise her son, Sachiko gradually begins to notice that Hikaru seems a bit different from other children. He is reluctant to be held or hugged, and his growth and development appear slow. Sachiko's suspicions are confirmed when it is suggested that Hikaru, at a year-and-a-half, may be deaf. A specialist, however, reaches a different diagnosis: autism.
With the light : raising an autistic child. 2 by Keiko Tobe
Call Number: Graphic Novels RJ506.A9 T62 2007 v.2
ISBN: 9780759523593
Publication Date: 2008
Sachiko and Masato Azuma have overcome numerous obstacles in dealing with their firstborn son Hikaru's autism. Having saved their marriage from ending in ruins, the young couple has welcomed a healthy baby girl, Kanon, into their tight-knit family. But with the obvious differences between Hikaru's and Kanon's developmental abilities, it becomes apparent that social prejudices against Hikaru's disability are never far away.
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.
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez
Call Number: Graphic Novels N6537.R62 A2 2023
ISBN: 9781250753977
Publication Date: 2023
When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled.
Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna; Helge Dascher (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels DS554.82 .T53 2021
ISBN: 9781770463769
Publication Date: 2020
Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge. Cartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia, as his family set forth on the chaotic mass exodus from Phnom Penh. Year of the Rabbit is a harrowing, deeply personal account of one of the twentieth-century's greatest tragedies, all told from the perspective of Veasna's parents and other close relatives.
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei; Elettra Stamboulis (As told to); Gianluca Costantini (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novels N7349.A5 A2 2024
ISBN: 9781984863003
Publication Date: 2024
As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist Gianluca Costantini present Zodiac, Ai Weiwei's first graphic memoir. Inspired by the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac and their associated human characteristics, Ai Weiwei masterfully interweaves ancient Chinese folklore with stories of his life, family, and career. The narrative shifts back and forth through the years--at once in the past, present, and future--mirroring memory and our relationship to time. As readers delve deeper into the beautifully illustrated pages of Zodiac, they will find not only a personal history of Ai Weiwei and an examination of the sociopolitical climate in which he makes his art, but a philosophical exploration of what it means to find oneself through art and freedom of expression.