Seattle Picks: Graphic Novels
Enjoy this selection of recent graphic novels and comics selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. Annotations by staff, or as cited. (February 2024)
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Stone Fruit
Lai presents a tender and emotionally raw examination of three women struggling to form and maintain their identities within and outside of their immediate family. (Library Journal)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Mazebook
A city building inspector's daughter passes away. Distraught to the point of madness and convinced she's not gone, he searches for the labyrinth she's stuck in, listening for clues she leaves him throughout the city.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Blackward
Four friends refuse to give up on creating a space of joy and celebration for Black, queer weirdness in Lindell’s latest graphic novel. (Kirkus)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Boys Weekend
Both a hilarious and terrifying send-up of capitalist-driven masculinity and a poignant story about the perception-altering blessings (and burdens) of queerness. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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This Country
Late in 2016, New Yorker cartoonist Mahdavian and his wife moved to a remote area of Idaho, built a tiny house on several acres of land, started a garden, and had a baby. Along the way, they experienced culture shock. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Shubeik Lubeik
The debut graphic novel from Mohamed presents a modern Egypt full of magical realism where wishes have been industrialized and heavily regulated. (Kirkus)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Men I Trust
In oil painting style this story follows Sasha and Eliza, sex worker and struggling single mother, respectively. The two strike up a delicate friendship, the intimacy of which is deepened and subsequently increasingly awkward.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The High Desert
A poignant ode to the power of music to fill voids left by family and circumstance, with provocations thrumming on race and identity that sound out like a smashed guitar. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Enlightened Transsexual Comix
This cartoon-y, brightly colored, anecdotal memoir explores gender theory in a satirical tone.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Roaming
Playful yet plaintive, this is an elegant study of young women caught between the comforts of the past and the promise of what comes next. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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