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• V for Vendetta

  Moore, Alan, 1953-

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  In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.

• Blankets

  Thompson, Craig, 1975-

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  Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Comb

  Flowers, Ebony,

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  Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn.

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book One

  Ferris, Emil

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  Filled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.

• The Walking Dead. Volume 1, Days Gone Bye

  Kirkman, Robert

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  Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sabrina

  Drnaso, Nick

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  When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monstress. Volume One, Awakening

  Liu, Marjorie M,

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  Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Hole

  Burns, Charles, 1955-

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  A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.

• The Fade Out. Act One

  Brubaker, Ed

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  Hollywood, 1948. A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. An up-and-coming starlet's suspicious death. And a mogul and his security chief who will do anything to keep the cameras rolling before the studio…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Locke & Key

  Hill, Joe

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  Presents the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them--and home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sandman

  Preludes & Nocturnes

  Gaiman, Neil

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  An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers.

• Persepolis 2

  the Story of a Return

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.

• Ghost World

  Clowes, Daniel

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  Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, andcontinues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after itsoriginal release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in thepages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Akira. Book One

  Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-

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  The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follows the lives of two teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, who have a consuming fear of a monstrous power known as Akira.

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

• Saga

  Vaughan, Brian K.,

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  Volume 6. Hazel starts on a new kind of adventure: kindergarten! In the meantime, her family learns harsh lessons.

• Paper Girls. 1

  Vaughan, Brian K.,

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  Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls.

• The Complete Frank Miller Robocop Omnibus

  Miller, Frank, 1957-

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  Miller's epic original vision for RoboCop is fully realized in its entirety for the first time in graphic novel form. Bear witness to the wall-to-wall violence, black comedy, science fiction, and neo-noir that never made it to the big screen.

• Maus I

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.