Graphic Novels

A Guest in the House

By Emily Carroll (Fic Carr)

After being alone, Abby's now married to a recently widowed dentist with a young daughter. Abby tries to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband's first wife, the more she wonders, did his wife really die of natural causes? Abby, to her detriment, is obsessed, fascinated, and desperately in love for the first time.
The Keeper

By Tananarive Due (Fic Due)

Aisha lost her parents in a car crush. She stays with her grandmother who is dying. Grandmother summons a spirit to protect the family and watch over Aisha. At first, it seems The Keeper, is doing what the grandmother asked. But soon it begins stealing life from others, becoming an uncontrollable monster.
M is for Monster

By Talia Dutton (Fic Dutton)

A Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family. When the Doctor’s younger sister dies in an accident, she swears to bring her back. However, the creature that rises doesn't remember anything and just wants to be her own person. M Is for Monster, takes a look at what it means to live up to other people's expectations--as well as our own.
Goodbye, Eri

By Tatsuki Fujimoto (Fic Fuji)

In this manga, Yuta's moviemaking career started with a request from his mother to record her final moments. After her death, Yuta meets a mysterious girl named Eri, who takes his life in new directions. The two begin creating a movie together, but Eri is harboring an explosive secret.
Brave New World: a Graphic Novel

By Aldous Huxley, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham (Fic Huxl)

Originally published in 1932, this classic is a warning that remains relevant today. A technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of freedom, full humanity, and perhaps their souls.
Far Sector, Volume 1

By N.K. Jemisin (Fic Jemi)

Newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. Violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent. But that's all about to change with this new Green Lantern.
Nina Simone in Comics

By Sophie Adrianson (B Simo)

This is the story of an emancipation of a young and poor Black woman living in an America marked by segregation. A musician involved in the civil rights movement. A long career of a pianist and singer, a unique artist, role model, and inspiration for generations. Nina Simone remains an inspiration for generations.
Blue Book, Volume 1, 1961

By James Tynion, IV (001.942 Tyni)

The true story of a UFO abduction with an eye on capturing the strange essence of those encounters. The Betty and Barney Hill abduction in 1961 was a widely-publicized and the very first abduction that went on to shape and influence all future UFO encounter stories.
The Talk

By Darrin Bell (305.896 Bell)

This graphic memoir offers a deeply personal meditation on "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them.
Nervosa

By Hayley Gold (616.85262 Gold)

Hayley Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope even in the darkness. Nervosa is a no-holds-barred, richly textured portrait of one young woman’s experience with the medical system as a patient.
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

By Adrian Matejka (796.83 Mate)

July 4, 1910, boxing fans witnessed Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight champion and Jim Jeffries, the "great white hope." During Jim Crow era spectators were eager for Jeffries to restore the racial hierarchy. Dramatic boxing with flashbacks to reveal how Johnson, the reached the pinnacle--all while facing a racist justice system.
Now Let Me Fly: a Portrait of Eugene Bullard

By Ronald Wimberly (940.44944 Wimb)

A graphic biography that casts light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where he was treated equal. His search took him from rural Georgia to Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies.