Adult Graphic Novels

These adult graphic novels are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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List

Filthyratbag : a journey through growing up, grieving & turning pain into diamonds  / Celeste Mountjoy.
"Celeste Mountjoy makes art that explores anxiety, feminism, addiction, body image, relationships, and power. With uncanny precision, it articulates the dark stuff we feel but dare not show. Mountjoy has become a voice for a generation of women who are am…
Haruki Murakami manga stories, [2] / Haruki Murakami ; adapted by Jean-Christophe Deveney ; illustrated by PMGL ; original onomatopoeia by Misato Morita ; English translation Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
The Second Bakery Attack: "A newlywed couple lie in bed, hungry. The man tells his wife about when he and a friend robbed a bakery and stole bread to feed themselves for two days. On hearing this story, the woman suggests they try the same thing again." -…
Lies my teacher told me : a graphic adaptation / James W. Loewen and Nate Powell
"A graphic adaptation of the bestselling book about what most American history textbooks get wrong"--Provided by publisher
Advocate : a graphic memoir of family, community, and the fight for environmental justice / Eddie Ahn.
"Born in Texas to Korean immigrants, Eddie grew up working at his family’s store with the weighty expectations that their sacrifices would be paid off when he achieved the 'American Dream.' Years later after moving to San Francisco and earning a coveted l…
Lackadaisy. Volume 1 / author & artist, Tracy J. Butler.
"It's 1927 and Prohibition is in full effect in St. Louis. Organized crime has risen to meet the relentless demand for illicit alcohol. Bootleggers- gangsters- and might-makes-right rule dominate the city's underworld- fueled by the patrons of speakeasies…
In perpetuity / by Peter and Maria Hoey.
"In perpetuity, the Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedi…
Marriage toxin. 2 / story by Joumyaku ; art by Mizuki Yoda ; translation & English adaptation, Jan Mitsuko Cash ; touch-up art & lettering, Erika Terriquez.
"After assessing Gero’s romantic qualities (or lack thereof), Kinosaki decides the best strategy to find Gero a wife is to use his impressive talents as an assassin instead! Together they respond to a job listing to rescue Himekawa, an art thief who’s bee…
Godzilla : here there be dragons / written by Frank Tieri ; artwork by Inaki Miranda ; colors by Eva de la Cruz ; letters and design, Nathan Widick.
"In the 1500s, a ship of seafaring navigators run afoul of a lost world where there is only one king, the King of the Monsters! Before humanity had successfully traveled the entire globe, it was believed that monsters ruled the oceans just beyond the h…
The Rose of Versailles. Volume 3 / Ryoko Ikeda ;  translation Jocelyne Allen ; lettering and touch up: Jeannie Lee.
"War is brewing. Oscar François de Jarjeyes has never conformed to the image of an ideal French noblewoman. While the people of Paris are being bankrupted by the nobles' extravagant spending, Oscar demotes herself to the French Guard, and mingles with rev…
The Rose of Versailles. Volume 2 / Ryoko Ikeda ; translation Episode 23-33 Mari Morimoto ; Episode 34-44 Jocelyne Allen ; lettering and touch up Jeannie Lee.
Oscar François de Jarjeyes, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events as Marie Antoinette's involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden cause chaos at the court of Versaille…
The Rose of Versailles. Volume 4 / Ryoko Ikeda ; translation: Jocelyne Allen ; lettering and touch up: Jeannie Lee.
"France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar Fraṅois de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek …
The Rose of Versailles. Volume 5 / Ryoko Ikeda ; translation: Mari Morimoto ; lettering and touch up: Jeannie Lee ; editor: Erica Friedman.
Oscar Francois de Jarjayes is the commander of the French Royal Guards, but even this fearless noblewoman may have met her match. Enter Loulou de la Laurencie, Oscars mischievous young niece. Loulou was sent to Oscar's house to improve her manners, but in…
Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir / Tessa Hulls.
"In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs …
Nightmare country. 2, The glass house / James Tynion IV, writer ; Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, Maria Llovet, artists ; Patricio Delpeche, Maria Llovet, colorists ; Simon Bowland, letterer ; Reiko Murakami, cover artist.
"The Corinthian has been turned loose on our realm once more, and this time he sets his sights on the very root of rapacious American capitalism-Silicon Valley. His relentless pursuit of the Smiling Man will carve a bloody path from the C-suite of Prophet…
Stitches : short stories / by Hirokatsu Kihara ; art by Junji Ito.
"A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing-her face is a total blank. Hirokatsu Kih…
Light it, shoot it / Graham Chaffee.
"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he …
Full of myself : a graphic memoir about body image / Siobhán Gallagher.
"Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher's humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. "I'm proud of the person I've become because I fought to become her." At the age of…
BRZRKR. Volume one, Bloodlines / created by Keanue Reeves
"...a pair of self-contained stories set within the 80,000 year history of BRZRKR! In Poetry of Madness, a sea of gore and devastation awaits as B., through a fateful chance encounter, safeguards the advanced and ancient realm of Atlantis as its unstoppab…
Eden / based on an original screenplay by Alain Bismut and Abel Ferry ; Christopher Sebela, writer ; Marc Laming, artist ; Lee Loughridge, colorist ; Tom Napolitano, letterer.
"The world is dying. As government and the environment crumble, humanity's only hope is Eden, a newly discovered Earth-like planet unspoiled by the folly of man. Massive Edencorp spaceships begin to shuttle millions of people lucky enough to be chosen by …
Victory parade / Leela Corman.
"One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet,…
Japan's longest day : a graphic novel about the end of World War II / Kazutoshi Hando (original story) ; Yukinobu Hoshino (manga adaptation).
"In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated. A tense drama unfolds in Tokyo as Japan teeters on the edge of Armageddon. Japan's Longest Day tells the true story of the day immediatel…
Anna / Mia Oberländer ; translated by Nika Knight.
"In the sleepy German countryside live the Annas, cursed to be too tall for their small town. Laughably long-limbed and gangly, their bodies refuse to conform with societal norms of delicate femininity, and the trauma of being different ripples across gen…
How war begins : dispatches from the Ukrainian invasion / Igort ; translated by Jamie Richards.
"In this real-time work of graphic journalism (posted serially on Facebook), the cartoonist Igort uses the medium of comics to depict the telephone testimonies of Ukrainians as Russia invaded in 2022. In vignettes that grow ever more horrifying — infiltra…
Spy x family. 11 / story and art by Tatsuya Endo ; translation, Casey Loe ; touch-up art & lettering, Rina Mapa.
"Threatened by Yor’s relationship with Melinda Desmond, Anya gets serious about her own friendship scheme. On the way to a museum field trip, however, she and her class become the target of activists looking to free their political allies…" --publisher's …
Replay : memoir of an uprooted family / Jordan Mechner.
"1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun t…
Alice in Borderland. 9 / story and art by Haro Aso ; English translation and adaptation Luka M. ; touch-up art and lettering Joanna Estep.
"After stumbling on a dealer's bunker, Arisu is even more determined to uncover the terrible truth behind Borderland. But that means he and Usagi will have to abandon their plans to sit out the games and instead seek out the last person who might have the…
Woman, life, freedom / Marjane Satrapi with [8 others]
"On September 13th 2022, a young Kurdish-Iranian student, Mahsa Jina Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only alleged 'crime' was that she wasn’t properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the polic…