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61) Barking
Author
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Alix Otto is having a very bad day. Easily her worst so far. A year since they fished her friend's body from the river, she finds herself hounded, haunted and driven to the brink. Caught in a situation she can't explain, Alix is handed over to the professionals and sectioned, left alone in a labyrinthine system with her delusions running wild. Barking is a tale of grief, madness and the ghosts that haunt us"--
"Loopy... cuckoo... stark raving......
62) Shadow life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko's well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it's not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The world building of Wakanda continues in a love story where tenderness is matched only by brutality. You know them now as the Midnight Angels, but in this story they are just Ayo and Aneka, young women recruited to become Dora Milaje, an elite task force trained to protect the crown of Wakanda at all costs. Their first assignment will be to protect Queen Shuri... but what happens when your nation needs your hearts and minds, but you already gave...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, "49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist." After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural, family, and financial backgrounds who go through two different abortions (medical and surgical). It does not address the events leading up to the pregnancy, or even the decision-making before choosing abortion as an option. It simply shows what happens when a woman goes through it, no questions asked. It follows them through the...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Can Lois Lane open herself up to friendship, romance, and being vulnerable in order to get the future that's right for her? She might have to change her entire life plan to find out. Ambitious small town girl Lois Lane tackles a summer in the big city with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks--including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion--threatens...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Author
Series
Ironheart volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Riri Williams, the armored hero called Ironheart who took the comics world by storm, takes center stage! When a group of world leaders is held hostage by one of Spider-Man's old foes, Riri must step up her game. But she's thrown for a loop when an old acquaintance from back in Chicago re-enters her life! Now, Ironheart is caught between her need for independence and her obligations at M.I.T. - and when an old friend is kidnapped, she needs to make...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped--cocooned--in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It's a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila's...
Author
Publisher
Published by Ka-BOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Join Bee and PuppyCat as they once again work for some hard-earned cash in the most weird situations. From cleaning a windmill to fixing a giant egg-- a magic girl does what a magic girl can do!" -- page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Bee and Puppycat volume 1
Publisher
Ka-BOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This quirky take on the magical girl genre comes to life with Bee, a not-so-graceful temp worker and her partner PuppyCat, the sour curmudgeon who helps her pay rent. Watch these two roommates take on a variety of jobs from cleaning house to finding plants in a collection of charming shorts"--
Author
Series
Bee and Puppycat volume 2
Publisher
Published by Ka-BOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Magic and adventures just aren't what they used to be, from too much coffeee to trying to make ends meet from month to month-- What is a magical temp worker to do? [T]his imaginative world takes a lofe of its own as Bee and PuppyCat learn how to work together with whatever the day throws at them"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A candid and philosophical memoir tackling abortion and the complex decision to reproduce. I Know You Rider is Leslie Stein's rumination on the many complex questions surrounding the decision to reproduce. Opening in an abortion clinic, the book accompanies Stein through a year of her life, steeped in emotions she was not quite expecting while also looking far beyond her own experiences. She visits with a childhood friend who's just had twins and...
75) Drawing power: women's stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival : a comics anthology
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers the anthology's contributors comprise a diverse group of many ages, sexual orientations, and races--and their personal...
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