Larry Yang is an ordained Buddhist monk and a passionate advocate for diversity in dharma communities. His "Awakening Together" is part spiritual memoir and part stirring call to action directed at the Western Buddhist community, asking... Read More

A video-store clerk is the only one who can save the Earth in the slacker-comedy graphic novel Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth. By fluke, Jeff Steinberg—a thoroughly mediocre person—is chosen by aliens to compete in a contest to... Read More

Brigitte Findakly, along with her husband, cartoonist Lewis Trondheim, provides perspective on the history of Iraq through her graphic memoir, "Poppies of Iraq". Findakly grew up in Iraq. Her book begins with a memory of visiting the... Read More

Marco Tabilio’s gorgeous graphic novel "Marco Polo" vividly relates the story of the famed explorer. This graphic biography encompasses Polo’s whole life, showing not just his time in the court of Kublai Khan but also the influences... Read More

Hamish Steele presents a coherent story about how all the Egyptian gods fit together, in his humorous, irreverent graphic novel "Pantheon". Beginning with a handy family tree of Egyptian gods, "Pantheon" weaves accounts from various... Read More

What is it like to live in America as an undocumented immigrant? Alberto Ledesma shares his own story of struggle and, eventually, US citizenship in his collection of graphic vignettes, "Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer". Although... Read More

"The Girl with the Red Balloon" is a thought-provoking look at modern German history through a lens of magic and time travel. Ellie’s class trip to Germany is supposed to be a fun spring-break adventure. When visiting the Berlin Wall... Read More

"Kiska" is the heart-wrenching story of a fourteen-year-old girl living on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska at the beginning of World War II. Her ordinary, happy life in a small hunting village quickly changes when, after Japan invades... Read More