The drawings in a teenager’s notebook interact with him, causing some problems and helping to solve others in Kevin Minor’s wild and wonderful "Mega Awesome Notebook". The adventure begins when the book’s young protagonist... Read More

Michelle Ann Abate’s "Funny Girls" is fascinating, focusing on an oft ignored component of Golden Age comics: preadolescent girl characters. It contextualizes and analyzes a number of wildly successful but academically ignored... Read More

Cancer is a difficult subject for children to process, as India Desjardins’s A Story about Cancer with a Happy Ending shows. The book follows one child’s experience of the disease with inspired, no-holds-barred determination. It is... Read More

Buddhism is the backdrop for metaphysical excitement in "Karma Police", a graphic novel that casts monks as thoughtful enforcers. Their goal? To ease suffering without violence, if possible—but if needed, to destroy evil spirits that... Read More

"Mallko and Dad" is the tender, honest, and life-affirming personal account of a father and his boy, who has Down syndrome. "Mallko and Dad" strikes quickly and with searing frankness, as Gusti writes: “Sometimes having kids is like... Read More

The mysteries of a legendary science fiction author are explored in the outstanding graphic novel biography "Philip K. Dick". Dick, known to many as the author of stories that were later made into films like Blade Runner and Total... Read More

A Sikh secret agent fights terrorism and preconceptions in the entertaining graphic novel adventure Super Sikh: Volume One. Deep Singh poses as a “second shift supervisor” at a large company, but he actually serves as an operative... Read More

A decidedly non-superhero “team book,” "Cellies" is the fun and briskly paced story of six employees of a mobile phone retail store. Led by their gung-ho but slightly dim manager, Christian, the Jog Mobile crew attempt to manage... Read More