Best College For Graphic Novels - April 2024

Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film

2017 ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens Award Winner Cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favorite movies. In Filmish, Ross’s cartoon alter ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme—the body, architecture, language—and explores an eclectic mix of cinematic triumphs, from A Tripto the Moon to Top Gun. Like other bestselling nonfiction graphic novels such as Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, Filmish tackles ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1910593036
• ASIN: 1910593036
• ISBN: 1910593036
• Brand: Self Made Hero
• Manufacturer: SelfMadeHero

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three Mrs--Who, Whatsit, and Which--the memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save our universe in the Newbery award-winning classic A Wrinkle in Time. But in 50 years of publication, the book has never been illustrated. Now, Hope Larson takes the classic story to a new level with her vividly imagined interpretations of tessering and favorite characters like the Happy Medium and Aunt Beast. Perfect for old fans and winning over new ones, this graphic novel adaptation is a must-read.

• ASIN: 0374386153
• ASIN: 0374386153
• ISBN: 0374386153
• Brand: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

The Mitchell Sisters: A Complete Romance Series (3-Book Box Set)

Grab your tissues for the series that has sold over 250,000 copies.Three sisters.Three sexy, swoon-worthy men.Three unforgettable stories.Book ONE - Purple Orchids:Friends. Lovers. Enemies.Sometimes the lines between them are blurred. He broke my heart back in college.And now, years later, a chance meeting has him claiming he never dumped me.Says I dumped him. Broke his heart. Ruined his life. Someone is lying.It's not me.But the thing is - it's not him either. I'm SO over him.Okay, maybe not.But he doesn't have to know that.Because loving him again isn't worth th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075V6VH79
• ASIN: B075V6VH79

Daytripper

The acclaimed Daytripper follows Bras de Olivias Dominguez during different periods in his life, each with the same ending: his death.Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’ life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a different point in his life, oblivious to his death in the previous issue—and then also ends with him dying again. In every chapter, Bras dies at different moments in his life, as the story follows him through his entire exi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401229697
• ASIN: 1401229697
• ISBN: 1401229697
• Brand: DC Vertigo
• Manufacturer: Vertigo

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.Jin Wang starts at a new school where he's the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn't want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he's in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great at basketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee's annual visit is such a disaster that it ruins Danny's reputation at school, leaving him with no choice but to transfer somewhere he can start all... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312384483
• ASIN: 0312384483
• ISBN: 0312384483
• Brand: Square Fish
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Kristy's Great Idea: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1)

This graphic novel adapted by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, is now available in full color!Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- cranky toddlers, huge dogs, scary neighbors, prank calls -- you can count on them to save the day. Baby-sitting isn't always easy, and neither is dealing with strict parents, new families, fashion emergencies, and mysterious secrets. But no matter what, the BSC have what they need most: friendship.Raina Telgemeier... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00OBOA7O0
• ASIN: B00OBOA7O0
• Manufacturer: Graphix

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

*A Graphic Novel version of this title is now available: "The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel" 30th Anniversary Edition. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B002LHRM2O
• ASIN: B002LHRM2O
• Manufacturer: North River Press

The Complete Maus

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his agin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679406417
• UPC: 000679406417
• ASIN: 0679406417
• ISBN: 0679406417
• Brand: Raw Books and Graphics
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618871713
• UPC: 046442871716
• ASIN: 0618871713
• ISBN: 0544709047
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel

• ASIN: B004YW4L5K
• ASIN: B004YW4L5K
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! November 1989. MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton was sent to Berlin to investigate the death of another agent, and the disappearance of a list revealing every spy working there. She found a powder keg of mistrust, assassinations and bad defections that ended with the murder of MI6's top officer, as the Berlin Wall was torn down. Now Lorraine has returned from the Cold War's coldest city, to tell her story. And nothing is what it seems.

• ASIN: 1620103818
• ASIN: 1620103818
• ISBN: 1620103818
• Brand: Oni Press
• Manufacturer: Oni Press

Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey

Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack—his very attractive but moody captain.A collection of the first half, freshmen and sophomore year, of the megapopular webcomic series of the same name, Chec... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GVC83DX
• ASIN: B07GVC83DX
• Manufacturer: First Second

The Bobcat: A Novel

** Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's best debut novel of 2019 ** With the hypnotic intensity of Emily Fridlund’s The History of Wolves and Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest, Katherine Forbes Riley has created a mesmerizing love story, in lush, gorgeous prose, that examines art, science, and the magic of human chemistry."Teeming with lush imagery and mystical settings, and brimming with alluring magical realism, Riley’s tale is a beguiling journey of discovery and recovery.” — BooklistHaunting and lyrical, The Bobcat is Katherine Forbes Riley’s magical debut novel in which La... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1950691489
• ASIN: 1950691489
• ISBN: 1950691489
• Brand: Arcade
• Manufacturer: Arcade

Darkness Series Boxed Set (Books 1-4)

***USA TODAY BESTSELLER!***"K.F. Breene has constructed an incredible world, populated with interesting and deep characters that I am desperate to get to know more intimately. Her writing is fluid, sparked with wonderful humor and rife with gorgeous imagery." - Wicked Women Book BlogSave $3 on Books 1-4 in the Darkness SeriesExperience the roller coaster adventure as Sasha confronts a new world full of magic, mayhem, and love. Follow her journey from an orphan who lost everything, to one of the most powerful mages in the nation. By Stefan's side, an alpha male who rules his clan with an iron ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00S7KU0I2
• ASIN: B00S7KU0I2
• Manufacturer: Hazy Dawn Press, Inc

El Deafo

New York Times Bestseller A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear—sometimes things she shouldn’t—but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1419712179
• ASIN: 1419712179
• ISBN: 1419712179
• Brand: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP USA
• Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal

• UPC: 460729
• Rating: 3.9

Best Friends

Bestselling creators of Real Friends Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with a true story about popularity, first crushes, and finding your own

• UPC: 266434629

The Best of Archie Americana Vol. 2 : Silver Age

In the 1960s and O70s, the youth of America enjoyed the latest fads and fashions, and spoke out for change. Ever timeless, Archie and his friends explored both the fun and unique brand of humor,

• UPC: 886820276

The Best of Archie Americana Vol. 1 : Golden Age

Featuring Archie highlights from the different historical eras of comic

• UPC: 592238819

The Female Persuasion : A Novel

Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement

• UPC: 343932408
• Rating: 3.4

The Best of Archie Comics 3 Deluxe Edition

Presents selections of Archie comics from the first comic ever published to more recent adventures of Archie Andrews and his friends in Riverdale. This edition includes a full book redesign, additional decade by decade content

• UPC: 292645658

Types of Children's Literature / A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools - eBook

This book is perfectly adapted and layout, for a pleasant reading on a digital reader, a tablet, or a

• UPC: 632464183

Sir Did His Best To Make Sure She Got Good Grades At College - eBook

A hot student/teacher story for lovers of older guys and 18-year-old girls. All characters and terms including 'boy' 'lad' and 'girl' refer to people age 18 and over. This book contains explicit sexual material and

• UPC: 544306587

The Handmaid's Tale

A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are

• UPC: 1064667
• Rating: 4.2

Peanutbutter & Jeremy's Best Book Ever - eBook

Peanutbutter is a cute little kitty who thinks she works in an office. She wears her little hat and tie and often falls asleep on the reams papers overflowing her inbox. Jeremy is the crafty

• UPC: 529026573
• Rating: 5.0