The comedic panels of Mrs. White’s SUB SNIPS have the potential to boost substitute teachers’ morale. The crazy life of substitute teachers is captured in Laura Moss White’s collection of one-panel cartoons, Mrs. White’s SUB... Read More

Ephameron’s poignant graphic novel "Us Two Together" portrays the slow decline of her father as illness robbed him of the ability to communicate. A rare form of early-onset progressive dementia struck the subject when he was... Read More

Based on African history, delivered in dramatic style, and intended for middle and high school audiences, "King Shaka" tells the fascinating story of a monarch’s life, diplomatic efforts, military campaigns, and death. From 1816 to... Read More

Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

Nathan Leslie’s short story collection Hurry Up and Relax focuses on the messy, humorous lives of downtrodden characters. Failure is the common thread between these stories, which, though most offer easy laughs, are surgically acute... Read More

Hannah Templer’s graphic novel "CosmoKnights" introduces an exciting space-operatic world with a queer twist. Set in a future full of human-inhabited planets, the book begins as a mechanically inclined teenage girl, Pan, aspires to one... Read More

Steeped in folklore and the supernatural, "Under the Cottonwood Tree" is a wonderful story about a group of children who try to save themselves and their village by convincing a once-helpful curandera to renounce her wicked ways. A... Read More

The career of Rod Serling—the screenwriter, playwright, and television producer best known for creating The Twilight Zone—is traced in Koren Shadmi’s graphic novel "The Twilight Man". The young Serling, after proving his mettle as... Read More