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• House on Fire

  Battaglia, Matt (Colorist)

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  Set in a small, industrial post-apocalyptic town, this black, white and orange sketch illustration follows an increasingly desperate man willing to risk it all for his ill wife.

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) delivers a masterpiece graphic memoir: an immersive, devastating portrait of the two years she worked at Fort McMurray and nearby oil sands in northern Canada. (Publishers Weekly)

• Fine

  a Comic About Gender

  Ewing, Rhea

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  In Ewing's ambitious debut, they conduct and draw dozens of interviews over a decade to chart the murky waters of gender. (Publishers Weekly)

• It Won't Always Be Like This

  a Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka

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  Gharib's empathetic second graphic memoir, a follow-up to I Was Their American Dream, covers culture clashes, family clashes, and identity mash-ups, set in the late '90s to the early 2000s. (Publishers Weekly)

• Bear

  Gnosspelius, Staffan

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  This is a wordless, allegorical graphic novel about depression. Set in a forest, it follows a bear whose head is stuck in a cone and a rabbit who won't give up trying to help.

• Mystic Debris

  Gradin, Justin

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  Whizbang, front man of his band, Fascinator, gets ousted by his band right before their tour. Then his pregnant wife gives birth and leaves him with the baby. He doesn't want a job... so how will he adult?

• Drip Drip

  Itagaki, Paru, 1993-

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  Any time Mako sees something dirty, whether literally or figuratively, she gets a heavy nosebleed... how can she ever find an intimate partner in this circumstance?

• Who Will Make the Pancakes

  Five Stories

  Kelso, Megan, 1968-

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  This collection finds Kelso (Queen of the Black Black) exploring the dynamic between interpersonal relationships and interior experience with skill and insight equal to or greater than anyone currently creating works of short fiction in any format…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gull Yettin

  Kessler, Joe, 1987-

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  This very colorful, wordless graphic novel follows a young boy whose house is set on fire. A gull saves his life and they flee on a boat which begins the boy's adventure in a strange land.

• What Is Home, Mum?

  Khan, Sabba

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  Khan debuts with a deeply introspective, elegantly rendered graphic memoir about her experiences, faith, and family in the South Asian diaspora community of East London. (Publishers Weekly)

• Stone Fruit

  Lai, Lee, 1993-

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  Lai presents a tender and emotionally raw examination of three women struggling to form and maintain their identities within and outside of their immediate family. (Library Journal)

• Mazebook

  Lemire, Jeff

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  A city building inspector's daughter passes away. Distraught to the point of madness and convinced she's not gone, he searches for the labyrinth she's stuck in, listening for clues she leaves him throughout the city.

• Blackward

  Lindell, Lawrence

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  Four friends refuse to give up on creating a space of joy and celebration for Black, queer weirdness in Lindell’s latest graphic novel. (Kirkus)

• Boys Weekend

  Lubchansky, Mattie

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  Both a hilarious and terrifying send-up of capitalist-driven masculinity and a poignant story about the perception-altering blessings (and burdens) of queerness. (Publishers Weekly)

• This Country

  Searching for Home in (very) Rural America

  Mahdavian, Navied, 1985-

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  Late in 2016, New Yorker cartoonist Mahdavian and his wife moved to a remote area of Idaho, built a tiny house on several acres of land, started a garden, and had a baby. Along the way, they experienced culture shock. (Kirkus)

• Shubeik Lubeik

  Muḥammad, Dīnā

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  The debut graphic novel from Mohamed presents a modern Egypt full of magical realism where wishes have been industrialized and heavily regulated. (Kirkus)

• Men I Trust

  Parrish, Tommi, 1989-

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  In oil painting style this story follows Sasha and Eliza, sex worker and struggling single mother, respectively. The two strike up a delicate friendship, the intimacy of which is deepened and subsequently increasingly awkward.

• The High Desert

  Spooner, James

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  A poignant ode to the power of music to fill voids left by family and circumstance, with provocations thrumming on race and identity that sound out like a smashed guitar. (Publishers Weekly)

• Enlightened Transsexual Comix

  by Sam Szabo

  Szabo, Sam

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  This cartoon-y, brightly colored, anecdotal memoir explores gender theory in a satirical tone.

• Roaming

  Tamaki, Mariko

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  Playful yet plaintive, this is an elegant study of young women caught between the comforts of the past and the promise of what comes next. (Publishers Weekly)