Summary: "The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstarter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 306.76 OUTAxelrod, Jadzia
Summary: Taylor Barzelay has the perfect life. Good looks, good grades, a starting position on the basketball team, a loving family, even an adorable corgi. Every day in Taylor's life is perfect. And every day is torture. Taylor is actually the Galaxy Crowned, an alien princess from the planet Cyandii, and one of the few survivors of an intergalactic war. For six long, painful years, Taylor has accepted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AXECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AXECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC AXEStanley, Stan
Summary: "This fantastical, stunning tale shines in both story and artwork. " School Library Journal (star review).. "A noir fantasy part adventure, part love story, all the way spectacularly creepy. "--Kirkus Reviews (star review).. The Hazards of Love follows the story of--a queer teen from Queens who makes some mistakes, gets dragged into a fantastical place, and tries to hustle their way back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HAZEaster, Robin
Summary: "Best friends Ivy and Ash arrive for a third summer at arts camp, but Ash struggles to tell Ivy about their developing feelings for her"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Ink, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBPesuyama, Poppy
Summary: "Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose "neither" for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends. Born into a body they hate and still reeling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 UNTMcLeod, Albert
Summary: "In this engrossing graphic novel, teen hockey player Chase learns more about himself and his identity in the face of prejudice and homophobia. Thirteen-year-old Chase's life and identity should be simple. He's the goalie for his hockey team, the Eagles. He's a friend to Kevin and Jade. He's Kookum's youngest grandchild. He's a boy. He should like girls. But it's not that simple. Chase doesn't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MCLDelliquanti, Blue
Summary: "Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DELMance, Ajuan Maria
Summary: "When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 MANCE, AJUAN MARIA MANSturges, Lilah
Summary: "Three years ago, Ash's mom left home and never returned, leaving behind a husband and child and a shed full of mystical curiosities related to the all-girl fantasy world she'd created as a child -- Koretris. One day Ash invites a new group of friends from Pride Club over, and they try one of the spells to enter Koretris. To their amazement, they're all transported to a magical realm filled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Whitley, Jeremy
Summary: "Meet Frankie, whose biggest challenge is finding the perfect outfit for the upcoming band concert. But then they save a friendly golden retriever from bullies--and suddenly find themself in a giant magical doghouse, with a funny-looking helmet, talking about a job offer with a group of dog superheroes called the Pawtheon. If Frankie can prove that they possess the six dog virtues of loyalty,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pizzoli, Greg
Summary: "Ideal for independent readers, this full-color graphic novel introduces children to an inquisitive pig named Baloney and his friends Bizz the bee, Peanut the horse, and Krabbit the grouchy rabbit."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grupo Anaya 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 741.5 PIZTrujillo, Josh
Summary: Jaime Reyes apenas da abasto. Cuando no son sus exámenes finales del último curso, es un nuevo villano que destroza El Paso, y Jaime siempre debe debatirse entre dos mundos. Pero cuando sus mundos impactan entre sí en su graduación de la preparatoria, nada volverá a ser igual. Un mensaje de los Reach bombardea al escarabajo de Jaime, Khaj Da, y comienza a dificultar su conexión con el...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BLUPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONKaito
Summary: "An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their best friends have already fallen for them... Toma's older brother, Seiya, asks Taichi to find out why Toma doesn't want to go to college. On the day of Toma's release from the hospital, Taichi still hasn't found a way to broach the subject with Toma....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLUElliott, Rachel
Summary: "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded-up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ELLSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SPOAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first ...?! Turns out confessing your feelings is the easy part of a romantic relationship ... Now Kaguya and Miyuki have to figure out how to behave in a relationship. Kaguya retreats behind the ice shield she built to protect herself years ago. Miyuki believes only an ideal version of himself is worthy of love....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: "BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, this oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER collects the emotional final adventures of four time traveling newspaper delivery girls, risking everything in the hopes of making it back home to 1988. Collects PAPER GIRLS #21-30, along with EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL!"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kaito
Summary: "Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them... The school sports festival is coming up, and Toma accepts the position of class 3-A's cheer-squad captain on the condition that Futaba and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLUSuenaga, Yuki
Summary: Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Watters, Shannon
Summary: "X MARKS THE SPOT...FOR TROUBLE! Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! What they end up finding is scattered pieces of an ancient Greek statue of a woman, who, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMMcCranie, Stephen
Summary: "A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.To Amy, everyone has a flavor, and when that flavor begins to disappear, it spells trouble.After the crushing confrontation with Oliver, Amy is on the hunt for answers. This leads her to an old, moldy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC MCCKaito
Summary: "An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them... Toma gets seriously injured diving in front of a car to save Taichi, leaving Taichi racked with guilt over not just getting his best friend hurt, but also stealing his last chance at making the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2020