"Madame Livingstone" uses a World War I conflict in the Congo as the backdrop for an exciting adventure, glimpsing into the country’s history of colonial exploitation. Based on the efforts of Belgian and Congolese soldiers to drive... Read More

Cultural messages about what is “normal” or acceptable stifle variety, induce shame, and keep people from discovering their true identity, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele argue in Sexuality: A Graphic Guide. Blending narratives... Read More

Antonio Gil’s graphic novel "The Flutist of Arnhem" tells the story of World War II’s Operation Market Garden, a 1944 Allied attack in the Netherlands that met with mixed results. The big successes of Allied efforts in World War II... Read More

Verse and visuals meet, with spectacular results, in the graphic anthology "Embodied". Poetry is a visual medium, not just an oral one: the placements of words and blank spaces are often intended to appeal to the eye, and they affect the... Read More

The life of seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is recounted in the graphic novel "Artemisia". Raised by her father, an accomplished artist himself, Artemisia took to painting from a young age. At eighteen,... Read More

Intelligent hamsters fight a destructive threat to themselves and their animal friends in the fun graphic novel The Underfoot: Into the Sun. The result of human experiments in genetic modification, the Hamster Aquatic Mercenaries... Read More

"Black Star" is a fast-moving, twisting futuristic thriller about a woman-versus-woman contest of survival. Harper, a prominent and dedicated scientist, is sent with a crew to a far-off planet, Eleos, to retrieve samples of a flower with... Read More

"The Arizona Water Bar" is a humorous, environmentally aware graphic novel with a strong sense of place. Drew Aquilina’s graphic novel "The Arizona Water Bar" features cartoon animals in situations inspired by the American Southwest.... Read More