The truth behind the legend of Calamity Jane is revealed in Noah Van Sciver’s graphic biography "Calamity Before Jane". At the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, New York, crowds pay to meet Martha Jane Cannary, better known... Read More

A young bird staves off mass destruction in the fantastical graphic novel Haru Book 3: Fall. Haru, a bird who’s unable to fly, meets his apparent death at the hands of Blight, a corrupted force bent on ravaging the world. Caught in the... Read More

An orphaned toad journeys through the natural world in the magnificent graphic novel "Alyte". Alyte is one of many eggs on his father’s back. When his father dies, he is thrown into a harsh but beautiful world. After meeting other... Read More

A Canadian man is trapped in a government camp in the historical graphic novel "Separated from Santo". Santo Pasqualini left Italy with his wife, Alice, in 1933, fearing Mussolini’s rise to power. They arrived in British Columbia, had... Read More

A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s graphic novel "Heaven, West Virginia". After his father’s death, Lamont arrives in the Appalachian town of Heaven to stay with his aunt,... Read More

"Patchwork" is Kate Evans’s fascinating graphic biography of Jane Austen. Despite the magnitude of her legacy, the book notes, historical records related to Jane Austen’s life are sparse. Using Austen’s own words from novels,... Read More

A girl encounters an expanding empire in Evan Dahm’s epic graphic novel "Vattu". Vattu is a rare child in her nomadic tribe, known by outsiders as the Fluters. When representatives of a neighboring empire visit, they present the... Read More

With scathing insights into America’s commodification of tragedies, Ben Wickey’s "More Weight" is a humane, absorbing graphic novel. With dual storylines set in the 1860s and 1690s, this sobering text vivifies the Salem witch trials... Read More