Prohibition-era anthropomorphic cats try to operate an illegal speakeasy in the intricate graphic novel Lackadaisy: Volume 2, a volume born as a webcomic that has seen animated treatment. In 1927 in Saint Louis, Missouri, widowed Mitzi... Read More

"Erased" is the fascinating graphic biography of Maximus Wyld, a multiracial actor from the early days of Hollywood whose name was later removed from film credits and forgotten. Maximus Ohanzee Wildhorse, known as Maximus Wyld, was an... Read More

Maria Sweeney documents her life with a rare disability in her graphic memoir "Brittle Joints". From childhood onward, Sweeney lived with pain and uncertainty related to her diagnosis with Bruck syndrome, a progressive condition that... Read More

An isolated teenager finds a companion in another loner, but their friendship leads to tragedy in the graphic novel Dark & Twisted: The Killing Hole. In 1979, Stewart lives in Virginia with his divorced mother. He meets Peter in... Read More

In the charming graphic novel Time Buddies, a spin-off from the Cat Ninja series, a schoolboy and a talking owl traverse millennia. On a museum field trip, Bentley is fascinated by hieroglyphics and sees one image that resembles him. In... Read More

A botany-themed meditation on memory, absence, and loss, "Ephemera" is a beautiful graphic memoir. Returning to her childhood home, Briana Loewinsohn seeks to restore the gardens and plants that had dried up and became overgrown. Through... Read More

An affecting graphic novel about political persecution in the midst of a civil war, "Justice" captures a perilous period well. A family tries to survive the turmoil of war in Ram Khatri’s historical graphic novel "Justice". Tara was a... Read More

Supernatural horrors meet frank discussions of mental health in Ethan and Naomi Sacks’s bighearted graphic novel "A Haunted Girl". After a suicide attempt and a stay in a psychiatric ward, Cleo struggles to reintegrate. She avoids her... Read More