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• Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, 1995-2017

  Alagbé, Yvan

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  With poetic, elliptical text and stark, impressionistic black-and-white art, French cartoonist Alagbé reveals the toxic legacy of European colonialism upon individuals and families. -- Library Journal (Also available as a downloadable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cruel Summer

  Brubaker, Ed

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  Cruel Summer combines elements of noir and coming-of-age stories in a psychologically and emotionally complex drama about desperate men and women daring to strive for better lives in a violent world where hope and love are dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trap

  Burniat, Mathieu,

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  A man lives in the wild with a dog as his only companion... and great powers at his disposal. All he needs is an animal's hide to take on its abilities. -- publisher's copy

• Dancing After TEN

  a Graphic Memoir

  Chong, Vivian

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  A prime example of the graphic medicine genre, which illustrates medical conditions, often through lived experience, this work is engaging and informative but never feels teachy or preachy. -- Library Journal

• BTTM FDRS

  Daniels, Ezra Claytan

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  This sharply observed satire stars a monstrous physical manifestation born of the evils of racism, gentrification, and cultural appropriation. -- Publishers Weekly (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• The Hard Tomorrow

  Davis, Eleanor, 1983-

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  In near-future Kentucky, in-home caretaker Hannah and her husband, Johnny, a sweet stoner, are trying to get pregnant and build their own home before year's end. -- Booklist

• Alienation

  Estrada, Inés

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  In this witty and original sci-fi debut, Estrada crafts a twisting technological cautionary tale set in a world where the climate has been radically changed. -- Publishers Weekly

• A Fire Story

  Fies, Brian

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  "On Monday, my house disappeared," begins this quietly devastating graphic memoir. In 2017, Fies and his wife, Karen, lost their home to the Sonoma County wildfires. -- Publishers Weekly (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• Hot Comb

  Flowers, Ebony

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  Flowers's exploration of black women's relationships to their hair is rich with both sorrow and celebration as it champions black womanhood and family ties. -- Publishers Weekly

• Grass

  Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk

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  In telling the difficult, moving story of Korean former “comfort woman” Granny Lee Ok-sun, Gendry-Kim faces a philosophical question as well as an artistic one: what can be redeemed in a life defined largely by cruelty? -- Publishers Weekly

• I Was Their American Dream

  a Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka

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  This charming graphic memoir riffs on the joys and challenges of developing a unique ethnic identity. -- Publishers Weekly (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• Is This How You See Me?

  Hernandez, Jaime

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  The saga of punk lesbian lovers Maggie and Hopey has been unfolding for more than 30 years in the Love and Rockets series, and this masterful episode gives new perspective on their relationship. -- Publishers Weekly (Also available as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  A novelist explores the perils and joys of parenting, marriage, and love in this showstopping memoir about race in America. -- Kirkus (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia

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  Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moms

  Ma, Yŏng-sin, 1982-

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  In his first full-length, English-language comic, Korean cartoonist Ma explores the daily lives of middle-aged Korean moms as they work, date, eat, brawl, and stay up too late scrolling through social media. -- Library Journal

• Old Souls

  McDonald, Brian, 1965-

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  A family man painfully relives past lives in this chilling supernatural thriller set in the contemporary Pacific Northwest. -- Publishers Weekly (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• Girl Town

  Nowak, Casey

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  Five stories (four previously published, the earliest two newly colored) reveal everyday women in everyday situations even if the settings may be slightly fantastical. -- Kirkus (Also available as a downloadable graphic novel)

• Death Threat

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  Shraya turns her real life experience with internet hate mail into a moving, complex memoir about being a trans women online and art as resistance. Ness Lee’s bright art with thick lines and primary colours are an evocative accompaniment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know What I Am

  the Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi

  Siciliano, Gina

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  Inspired by Artemisia Gentileschi's grim 17th-century painting Judith Slaying Holofernes, Siciliano delivers a painstakingly well-researched graphic biography of the Baroque artist and rape survivor. -- Publishers Weekly

• Apsara Engine

  Som, Bishakh, 1968-

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  Som's provocative collection of short comics explores the idiosyncrasies of gender, desire, friendship, courtship, family, and culture through speculative fiction. -- Publishers Weekly