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A list of graphic novels written by LGBTQ authors or addressing LGBTQ themes. Since Pride is digital this year, we still wanted to get this list out!

Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device. We also encourage you to check these out from your local library. If your library doesn't have a copy, encourage them to include these in their collection!

A list of graphic novels written by LGBTQ authors or addressing LGBTQ themes. Since Pride is digital this year, we still wanted to get this list out!

Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device. We also encourage you to check these out from your local library. If your library doesn't have a copy, encourage them to include these in their collection!

"Painstakingly researched and exquisitely illustrated, Stuck Rubber Baby is a groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruse's experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama.

This 25th anniversary edition brings this rich and moving tale of identity and resistance is back in print-complete with an updated introduction from Alison Bechdel, rare photographs, and unpublished archival material that give a thorough, behind-the-scenes look at this graphic novel masterpiece.

As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He's aware of the racial injustice all around him-the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members-but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.

Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers-men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.

No longer content to stay on the sidelines, Toland joins his friends as they fight against bigotry. But in Clayfield, Alabama, that can be dangerous-even deadly." Bookshop.org

A sweet and positive fairy tale in which two princesses meet and embark on an adventure to overcome their own personal obstacles.

2014 Cybils Awards Finalist

2014 Autostraddle Comic Art Award for Favorite Graphic Novel

2017 ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten

2018 Sakura Medal Nominee

"It's super cute, super queer, and feminist as all get out." - BookRiot

When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They'll need to join forces and use all the know-how, kindness, and bravery they have in order to defeat their greatest foe yet: a jealous sorceress, who wants to get rid of Sadie once and for all. Join Sadie and Amira, two very different princesses with very different strengths, on their journey to figure out what "happily ever after" really means-and how they can find it with each other.

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Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band-if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom . . . that is, if Ari doesn't ruin everything.

Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.

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LGBTQ Graphic Novel Reading List - Super Heroines, Etc.

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A list of graphic novels written by LGBTQ authors or addressing LGBTQ themes. Since Pride is digital this year, we still wanted to get this list out! Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device.

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This is a list of graphic novels I helped compile for Super Heroines, Etc. (SHE) to help examine racism and the fight for antiracism in the United States and around the world.

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A list of graphic novels to help examine racism and the fight for antiracism in the United States and around the world.

Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device. We also encourage you to check these out from your local library. If your library doesn't have a copy, encourage them to include these in their collection!

A list of graphic novels to help examine racism and the fight for antiracism in the United States and around the world.

Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device. We also encourage you to check these out from your local library. If your library doesn't have a copy, encourage them to include these in their collection!

" Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him."

"More than 35 years after its release, continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century." Kindred Bookshop.org

" Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she is suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the all-new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! As Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to handle? Kamala has no idea either. But she's comin' for you, New York!"

" Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is a true-life account of childhood against the backdrop of radicalizing Iran. Satrapi doesn't shy away from depicting the brutal, stark truths of the Islamic Revolution and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War, but just as powerful are the moments of a young girl growing: the warm touches on her life by her family, her embattled relationship with the faith she's grown up with, the terrible recklessness of asserting her identity in a fundamentalism regime. For me, this read was as impactful as Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl . In a time of outspoken Islamophobia, Persepolis is an essential read." Recommended By Miranda G., Powells.com

" Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions―the topic of India is permanently closed.

For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she find a mysterious pashmina tucked away in a forgotten suitcase. When she wraps herself in it, she is transported to a place more vivid and colorful than any guidebook or Bollywood film. But is this the real India? And what is that shadow lurking in the background? To learn the truth, Pri must travel farther than she's ever dared and find the family she never knew.

"During the Paxton massacres of 1763, a mob of white settlers, so-called "Paxton Boys" murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga People in a genocidal campaign that reshaped Pennsylvania settlement politics. Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga reimagines this difficult history through an educational graphic novel that introduces new interpreters and new bodies of evidence to highlight the Indigenous victims and their kin."

" During World War II, while the U.S. military was attempting to develop a serum that would create the world's perfect fighter, one young African-American soldier, Truth, survived the experiments that were meant for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. Original.

From Publishers Weekly (As found on Amazon)

In 1940, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Captain America, a frail patriot who was transformed by a "super-soldier serum" into a physically perfect specimen to champion freedom, an American alternative to the Nazi uebermensch. Now, writer Morales pursues this idea and also draws inspiration from U.S. government experiments in the 1930s that left unwitting African-Americans infected with syphilis, leading to many deaths. Beginning his story in 1940, Morales incisively depicts the racism his various African-American characters confront both in civilian life and in the military. These black soldiers are compelled to act as test subjects for the super-soldier serum; some die, while others become deformed. Ultimately only one survives, Isaiah Bradley. Substituting for Captain America on a mission, Bradley discovers Jewish concentration camp inmates subjected to experiments. Ranging from heroic figures to pointed caricatures, artist Baker makes his varied styles gel. Drawing on copious research, Morales dramatizes how racism corrupted American history, yet verges close to asserting moral equivalency between America and Nazi Germany. Roosevelt was ultimately in charge of the super-soldier program: would he have approved these human experiments? Besides, how can one talk about "truth" regarding a fictional creation? Simon and Kirby devised a fable about an American everyman tapping his inner strength to combat genocidal fascism; Kirby helped pioneer positive depictions of blacks in comics. By adding Morales's backstory to Captain America's origin, Marvel has turned the character into a white superman who owes his powers to the deaths and exploitation of African-Americans.

Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South.

In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.

"Painstakingly researched and exquisitely illustrated, Stuck Rubber Baby is a groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruse's experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama.

This 25th anniversary edition brings this rich and moving tale of identity and resistance is back in print-complete with an updated introduction from Alison Bechdel, rare photographs, and unpublished archival material that give a thorough, behind-the-scenes look at this graphic novel masterpiece.

As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He's aware of the racial injustice all around him-the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members-but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.

Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists, folk singers, and night club performers-men and women who live authentically despite the conformist values of their hometown. Emboldened by this new community, Toland joins the local protests and even finds the courage to venture into a gay bar.

"Before he became a respected Congressman, John Lewis was clubbed, gassed, arrested over 40 times, and nearly killed by angry mobs and state police, all while nonviolently protesting racial discrimination. He marched side-by-side with Martin Luther King as the youngest leader of the Civil Rights Movement that would change a nation forever.

This book tells three unique stories:

" All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl...

Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. But the Monkey King doesn't want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god...

" George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's-and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon-and America itself-in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." Google Books

" Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Every day, these men and women join the work force and contribute positively to society. The story is told via the ancient Mixtec codex-accordion fold-format. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide for his family. Struggling for money, Juan crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker, living in a poor neighborhood, working hard to survive. Though he is able to get a job as a busboy at a restaurant, he is severely undercompensated-he receives less than half of the minimum wage! Risking his boss reporting him to the authorities for not having proper resident papers, Juan risks everything and stands up for himself and the rest of the community."

MOONSHOT The Indigenous Comics Collection brings together dozens of creators from North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling. From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work on the continent. MOONSHOT is an incredible collection that will amaze, intrigue and entertain! MOONSHOT includes work by 28 writers and artists, including: Claude St-Aubin (R.E.B.E.L.S., Green Lantern, Captain Canuck), Jeffrey Veregge (G.I. Joe, Judge Dredd), Stephen Gladue (MOONSHOT cover artist), Haiwei Hou (Two Brothers), Nicholas Burns (Arctic Comics, Curse of Chucky, Super Shamou), Jon Proudstar (Tribal Force), George Freeman (Captain Canuck, Aquaman, Batman), Elizabeth LaPensee (Survivance, The Nature of Snakes, Fala), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Fire & Fleet & Candlelight, Coincidence & Likely Stories), Richard Van Camp (Path of the Warrior, Kiss Me Deadly), Fred Pashe (SpiritWolf), David Robertson (The Evolution of Alice, Stone), Michael Sheyahshe (Native Americans in Comic Books, Dark Owl), David Cutler (The Northern Guard), Menton J. Matthews III (Monocyte, Memory Collectors, Three Feathers), Jay Odjick (Kagagi: The Raven), Ian Ross (Heart of a Distant Tribe, Bereav'd of Light, An Illustrated History of the Anishinabe), Lovern Kindzierski (X-Men, Wolverine, Incredible Hulk, Thor, Spiderman), Arigon Starr (Super Indian, Indigenous Narratives Collective) and more! Comixology- Amazon Company

The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants.

When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent civil disobedience that was met with further police violence. This was the first major uprising of the 21st Century, matched only by the LA riots a decade before and the protests in Ferguson over a decade later. Author and illustrator Dan Méndez Moore was 17 at the time when he participated in the six days of protests that shook the city between Thomas's death and his funeral. Méndez Moore's comics-journalism account sensitively captures a fiery moment in U.S. history through interviews with protestors, community leaders, bystanders, and a frustrated looter. He portrays the tension of a city boiling over, political leaders taking advantage, and an inner-city community coming together. Six Days in Cincinnati is a nonfiction graphic novel that tells an all-American story of systemic racism and the power of popular movements, more relevant in our post-Ferguson era than ever before.

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Antiracist Graphic Novel Reading List - Super Heroines, Etc.

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A list of graphic novels to help examine racism and the fight for antiracism in the United States and around the world. Links below are primarily to Bookshop.org which supports local bookstores or directly to an online format where you can read the graphic novels from your preferred device.

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NPR's Reader Poll 2017: 100 Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels

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NPR's Reader Poll 2017: 100 Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels

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Summer's the time for comics - Marvel and DC blockbusters are in movie theaters, fans are preparing to descend on San Diego for its epic annual Comic-Con, and if nothing else, your friendly local comic store or library is there to provide an air-conditioned Fortress of Solitude where you can escape the steamy streets.

So it's a perfect time for our super summer reader poll - a few months ago, we asked you to tell us all about your favorite comics and graphic novels. We assembled an amazing team of critics and creators to help winnow down more than 7,000 nominations to this final list of 100 great comics for all ages and tastes, from early readers to adults-only.

This isn't meant as a comprehensive list of the "best" or "most important" or "most influential" comics, of course. It's a lot more personal and idiosyncratic than that, because we asked folks to name the comics they loved. That means you'll find enormously popular mainstays like Maus and Fun Home jostling for space alongside newer work that's awaiting a wider audience ( Check Please, anyone?).

So poke around to find old favorites - and discover some new ones.

Here are some quick links to make it easier for you to navigate: Fantasy and Science Fiction, Graphic Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, Manga, Series Comics, Superheroes, Web Comics, Newspaper Comics, All Ages and Last, but Not Least.

As The Crow Flies

Melanie Gillman's gentle colored pencils belie the seriousness of their story about Charlie, a black teenager who's questioning her sexuality - and whose parents send her to a pretty dangerous place: An all-white Christian summer camp. Charlie bonds with Sydney, a trans girl, as the campers hike toward a mysterious mountaintop ceremony, and Gillman uses their growing friendship to illustrate, in a beautifully organic way, the challenges gay and trans kids face on a daily basis.

Vattu

Evan Dahm's mesmerizing tale of a nomadic tribe - Those Marked in White - whose unchanging existence is turned upside down by the arrival of a colonizing empire. Imperial soldiers take a young tribal girl, Vattu, as tribute; back in their capital city, she learns there's far more to the world than endless marches through the grasslands after game. The comic moves slowly; some panels are completely wordless, but you'll be drawn in by its story of culture clash and colonization, and Dahm's wildly imaginative world building. Ancient Rome with strange dog-snake centurions? Yes please.

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Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

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Summer's the time for comics - Marvel and DC blockbusters are in movie theaters, fans are preparing to descend on San Diego for its epic annual Comic-Con, and if nothing else, your friendly local comic store or library is there to provide an air-conditioned Fortress of Solitude where you can escape the steamy streets.

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This weekly podcast discusses graphic novels and their authors.

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Graphic Novel Podcast - Talking comics and life

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Welcome to The Graphic Novel Podcast on the art of the graphic novel. A little about them, Mike is the author of ten books, and produced COMX-TV, a weekly TV show on comic books for seven years. Together with his partner, Parker, they produced Northwest Brew Talk about the beer industry for two years.

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This podcast's goal is to make comics more welcoming and friendly, particularly for LGBTQ and women readers.

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Bitches on Comics - Comics are for everyone-bitches included.

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Stephanie Williams joins us to discuss one of our favorite superheroes Monica Rambeau, how she's been represented in the comics, and her appearance in WandaVision....

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This podcast reviews graphic novels within the context of art and story based on their relationship to popular media.

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Josh, Bear and Jenn are back for Season 4 and kick it off with returning guest Sarah Michels (Guardians of the Galaxy episode) and new-time guest, her husband III (pronounced "three")! Did we find an 80's property Jenn likes more than TMNT? How do Chick tracts factor into our graphic novel upbringing? Would you watch a Twisted Metal version of Pixar's Cars? Listen for these subjects and more!

Also, HAPPY 2021!

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Josh, Bear and Jenn are back for Season 4 and kick it off with returning guest Sarah Michels (Guardians of the Galaxy episode) and new-time guest, her husband III (pronounced "three")! Did we find an 80's property Jenn likes more than TMNT? How do Chick tracts factor into our graphic novel upbringing?

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ENG 368, The Graphic Novel (Spring 2021)

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ENG 368, The Graphic Novel (Spring 2021)

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Instructor: Dr. Tamara F. O'Callaghan (English)
Email: ocallaghant@nku.edu

Course Description:
Graphic novels, or sequential art, are one of the world’s great storytelling media, but it is only in recent years that the genre has been critically recognized as a major form of communication and contemporary creative arts. ENG 368 explores the graphic novel’s joint ancestry in the fine arts and literature. Students will develop the critical skills necessary to read and understand this deceptively complex medium, focusing on the themes of family, childhood, coming of age, politics, sexuality, class, illness, violence, horror, the monster, and cultural/ethnic diversity. Considerable attention will be given to how words and images interact to create meaningful narrative structure and spatial visualization in graphic novels.

Required Reading:

Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (1991)

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2000)

Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, Daytripper (2011)

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017)

Junji Ito, Uzumaki (2013)

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (2019)

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What is a Graphic Novel? (Part I)

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is a Graphic Novel? (Part I)": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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What is a Graphic Novel? (Part II)

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is a Graphic Novel? (Part II)": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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This is a public space where everyone can contribute their reading, viewing, and even listening recommendations for graphic novels. You will see that I have already started us off with the course description and list of the graphic novels assigned to my ENG 368 course as well as some useful videos and podcasts.

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