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2) Nervosa
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries - each representing an episode in the life of Freddie - bring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for Freddie - he's set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With consummate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty...
Author
Series
Blood on the tracks volume 2
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother's love that has gone too far...."--Provided by publisher.
5) Tonta
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel, teenager Tonta is staying for the weekend with her half-sister, the self-absorbed Vivian. At home, Tonta's stepfather is shot during a botched burglary, which leads to the discovery of family secrets that require Tonta to confront some unpleasant truths that she previously managed to suppress or remain ignorant of. Through it all, Tonta showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving a host of characters and milieus...
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 Street, or as his brothers rechristened it "One Dirty Tree." This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative experiences. Growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family--surrounded by comic-books, eight siblings, bathtubs full of dirty dishes--Noah's childhood exerts a powerful force on his present day relationships. Drawn in his inimitable style, written with wry wit...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Barry deftly portrays the capricious nature of teen friendships, adolescent peer-pressure, and the kill or be killed nature of a middle school's social scene in her signature style. In an authentic teen voice full of diffidence and melodrama, the bespectacled and freckled Maybonne relates all of life's indignities on equal measure. Heartbreaking stories of a broken home, child molestation, an alcoholic absentee father and a bitter mom emerge between...
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Series
Blood on the tracks volume 3
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Seiichi's family begins to fall apart in the wake of his cousin's accident, but nothing compares to the mental and emotional torture he undergoes as he tries to maintain some sense of self in the face of his mother's manipulations. Torn by his love for her, Seiichi is pushed to the breaking point and finds himself unable to speak, both literally and figuratively."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
August 2016.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry's most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, and for good reason! Given her very own collection of strips, Marlys shines in all her freckled and pig-tailed groovy glory. The trailer park where she and her family live is the grand stage for her dramas big and small. Joining Marlys are her teenaged sister Maybonne, her younger brother Freddie, their mother, and...
11) Silver spoon: 9
Author
Series
Silver spoon volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With no goals of his own, Hachiken is devoted to helping his friends-especially Mikage-achieve theirs. To prepare her for the college entrance exams as promised, Hachiken swallows his pride and calls in a ringer: Tokyo U dropout and academic genius Shingo Hachiken. But collecting his brother's old notes means returning home for the first time since he started high school... Has everything he's learned at Ezo Ag readied him enough to face his past...?"--Provided...
12) Monica
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined...
Author
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eisner Award-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne presents a true and tragic graphic novel memoir about family, abuse, survival and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America. Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape...
14) Ao haru ride: 4
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Futaba Yoshioka has encountered her first love again in high school, but he seems different from the boy she once knew. Futaba wonders what happened between Kou and Yuri, but she's still determined to find out more about Kou's past and why he won't allow others to get close to him."--Provided by publisher.
15) Rusty Brown
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rusty Brown" is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, "Rusty Brown" literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence...
16) Couch tag
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jesse Reklaw's graphic memoir, told through conceits like cat histories and card games, is about his childhood and involves family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use ... The graphic novel is told in five parts: In 'Thirteen Cats' (featured in The Best American Comics), Reklaw discovers coping mechanisms that mimic his family pets; 'Toys I Love' relates the author's pre-pubescent brushes with deviant sexual activity, and the way innocence converges...
Author
Series
Dreams volume 1
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A new girl at school. A mysterious crow. Weird visions he can't explain. Grade 12 just got a lot more complicated for Damon Quinn... "Your ancestors have called us to help you." "I think you have the wrong number." Damon Quinn just wants to get through his senior year unscathed. His mom struggles with alcohol and is barely coping with the day-to-day. Marcus and his cronies at school are forever causing him trouble. The new girl, Journey, won't mind...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to fight his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution... But their past is coming back to haunt them."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano about Onodera Punpun, a normal child depicted in the form of a bird. The story follows him as he copes with his dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind.
20) Stone fruit
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties -- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother...
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