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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep-school for mutants and witches but their paranormal abilities take a back seat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout...
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Drawn & Quarterly
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"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips" --...
3) Susceptible
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
"Goglu is a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives 5,000 miles away. Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home's daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel debut by Geneviève Castrée about the heartbreaking loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult amongst grownups."--Provided by publisher....
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Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A young artist reunites with her beloved cousin and his husband in the small town where they spent formative summers, unearthing pieces of the past and upending their lives. In this debut graphic novel from Nova Scotian cartoonist Kyle Vingoe-Cram, a woman visits her estranged cousin in a town on the muddy banks of the Fundy coast, a magical place where they spent summers as children. Once tied at the hip, the two cousins, Andrea and Brendan, awkwardly...
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"When Machine Boy falls into the city of Mega 416, he leaves a wake of destruction in his path... until Karate Grandpa is able to activate his heart. Now, whether he is fighting giant bugs in the school's basement or making the perfect spaghetti sauce, Machine Boy is always looking for the best way to help others. But when his heart reacts dangerously to mysterious debris from outer space, Machine Boy wonders if he can be a force for good after all."--Back...
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Image Comics
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"Set one hundred years in our future, We Stand on Guard follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters, who must defed their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent ... the United States of America."--page 4 of cover.
7) The new girl
Author
Series
New girl volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
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Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change. Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if things weren't difficult enough! Now Lia...
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Dark Horse Books
Description
"What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores and have a weakness for kittens? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings charming humor to the trials and tribulations of a young, female superhero, battling monsters both supernatural and mundane in an all-too-ordinary world" -- from publisher's web site.
9) Gamerville
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In Johnnie Christmas's newest offering, a video gamer's championship aspirations are dashed when his parents send him to Camp Refresh, a summer camp where electronics are forbidden and you're forced to socialize, eat healthy, and spend time outside. Gamerville is a timely and vulnerable exploration of the importance of human connection and what it means to run in a pack.
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Nick's supersized ears give him supersized powers. So when he's recruited by Super Fantastic Guy to be a sidekick -- or, as Nick prefers, a superhero assistant -- he leaps at the chance to use his powers for good. Forced to wear a goofy cape and a fanny pack, Nick discovers that being a superhero assistant isn't all it's cracked up to be. Worst of all, he solves the crimes while Super Fantastic Guy takes all the credit. Will Nick ever get the chance...
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Series
P.U.R.S.T. adventures volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Agent Gordon's distress calls to P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) have gone unanswered. His humans and fellow agents have been captured! He is all alone in the middle of an alien invasion! Gordon's deadliest weapon is his mind, but none of the computers, robots or other devices he's built could have prepared him for this. Or could they ...? Gordon has an idea. But is it too dangerous? The device isn't ready--it's just a prototype!...
12) Louis undercover
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Publisher
Groundwood
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"[M]eet Louis, a young boy who shuttles between his alcoholic dad and his worried mom, and who, with the help of his best friend, tries to summon up the courage to speak to his true love, Billie"--Provided by publisher.
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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"The largest and most comprehensive book of James Stokoe's art ever published! Featuring art and never-before-published work and comics! This deluxe hardcover artbook showcases the work of inimitable comics creator James Stokoe, who has drawn some of the most visually meticulous and surreal illustrations in modern comics, featuring some of his bestselling illustrations from works such as Orc Stain, Aliens: Dead Orbit, Wonton Soup, well-known cover...
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A funny and insightful retrospective collection from a celebrated cartoonist. Universally beloved cartoonist Guy Delisle showcases a career-spanning collection of his work with a sly sense of humor and warm characterization. Before Delisle became an international superstar with his globe-hopping travelogues, he was an animator experimenting with the comics form. Always aware of the elasticity of the human form and honing his keen observer's eye,...
18) The Wendy award
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Everybody's favorite party girl Wendy is so back. When Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize alongside her friend Winona, all of her millennial dreams seem to be coming true. She lives a post-pandemic, polyamorous fine artist's lifestyle in the big city and basks in the glory of national attention with the success of her popular comic strip, "Wanda." But not even achieving bona fide art star fame can hide the...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Get ready for a new teen beat! They're too young to drive, but not too young to save the world! The world's hottest heroes -- Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg and Starfire -- are here to show you how it's done, Titan-style, in six fantastic adventures. Villainous video games. Dodo hunting aliens. Heroic self-esteem issues. Super dating. Monstrous zits. Super sibling squabbles. The teen superheroes from Jump City tackle it all in this exciting volume,...
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Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Joe Ollmann has been called one of the best writers of short stories working in comics today and this omnibus is the definitive collection of those stories. Ollmann won the Doug Wright Award in 2007 for This will all end in tears, most of which is contained here. The best stories from Chewing on tinfoil are included, as well as two new stories, written just for this book. Ollmann blushes as he hand-letters such effusive praise in the third-person...
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