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

Spectators / Brian K. Vaughan, writer ; Niko Henrichon, artist ; Fonografiks, lettering & design.
"Hundreds of years in the future, New York City is haunted by many ghosts, including a voyeuristic woman who died in our present day and a mysterious gun-toting man from the distant past. Normally solotravelers, these two specters meet and travel around t…
Elon Musk : American oligarch / Darryl Cunningham.
"Spanning several generations, the book traces Musk’s journey from his family roots in South Africa and his grandfather’s role in the Technocracy Movement to his current position at the apex of tech power and far-right politics. From Musk’s early educatio…
Veil. 2, Calming noir / manga by Kotteri! ; translation: Jocelyne Allen ; letterer: Kevin Druelle.
"'I like looking at you when you’re enjoying a scent.' On a cobblestone street, a moment was shared by two people. One day, by chance… he, a police officer met she, a runaway heiress. She was looking for a job and he welcomed her as the new police station…
The harrowing game / Antoine Revoy.
"The rules of the game are simple: Three ghosts gather to tell their stories in turn. Scariest story wins. Only the winner may move on. For thousands of years, the souls of the dead have gathered to play the game. Tonight, the storytellers locked in this …
I hear the sunspot. Four seasons. 2 / written and illustrated by Yuki Fumino ; translated by Stephen Kohler.
"Kohei Sugihara, a college student with hearing loss, and Taichi Sagawa, his ever-optimistic former classmate, met in a chance encounter that ignited an undeniable spark that would eventually blossom into love. Summer has at last arrived, but Kohei’s job …
I hear the sunspot. Limit. 3 / written and illustrated by Yuki Fumino ; translated by Stephen Kohler.
"Stunningly handsome Kohei Sugihara was outgoing and popular with the girls at school. But when a sudden illness left him with partial hearing loss, he grew quiet and reluctant to engage with others. At college, a chance encounter with an ever-optimistic …
Gaytheist : coming out of my Orthodox childhood / Lonnie Mann ; art by Lonnie Mann and Ryan Gatts.
"A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he’s gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is. Lonnie’s Orthodox Jewish community has always been clear: it’s not okay to be …
Do admit! : the Mitford sisters and me / by Mimi Pond.
"Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on their family’s well-documented upper clas…
Black arms to hold you up : a history of Black resistance / Ben Passmore.
"From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force. It's the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. "You're not out in the streets with everyone else?" Ronnie ask…
The knives / by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
"A sprawling Criminal epic, The Knives is the most ambitious tale Brubaker and Phillips have ever tackled. Three dark journeys wind around each other over a decade, like sharks hunting for a kill. Cartoonist Jacob Kurtz goes to Hollywood in the era of pe…
The woman with fifty faces : Maria Lani & the greatest art heist that never was / by Jon Lackman and Zachary J Pinson.
"On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists —Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, …
Not on display / Zelba ; translated by Alice Yang ; afterword by Zelba.
"When one of the greatest museums in the world gave the illustrator Zelba free rein to make a graphic novel about great art, she knew exactly what she would do: address a double standard. She’d seen the Louvre’s halls filled with sexualized female bodies,…
In the end we all die / Tobias Aeschbacher ; translated from the German by Andrew Shields.
"When three sleazy gangsters storm into an apartment in search of a stolen urn, they set off a series of unfortunate events. As blood begins to pool, it becomes clear that this story is about more than senseless violence. What is good and what is evil? Wh…
The autumn kingdom. Through the Blight Volume one / written by Cullen Bunn ; illustrated by Christopher Mitten ; colored by Francesco Segala ; lettered by Taylor Esposito.
"Fantasy novelist Andrew Kier takes his family on an idyllic vacation to the edge of a lush Swedish forest, where he hopes to finish writing his latest book in The Wraithbound Queen series. After his young daughters, Sommer and Winter, venture into the wo…
Pop kill / Dave Johnson & Jimmy Palmiotti, writers ; Juan Santacruz, artist ; Brian Reber, colors ; Sean Konot, letterer.
"Imagine a world where the two dominant and competing Cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former conjoined twins who are now separated and have grown to hate each other so much they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage personnel to meddl…
Kill train / writer, Olivia Cuartero-Briggs ; artist, Martina Niosi of Outclass Studio ; colorist, Simone D'Angelo of Outclass Studio ; letterer, Becca Carey.
"To control the population explosion that nearly crippled the city, New York has instituted Kill Train, a randomized, extermination program where designated subway trains are picked at random, and all the passengers are slaughtered by the end of the line.…
Ionheart / Lukas Kummer
"Pursued by a terrifying demon, a young knight flees across the radioactive ruins of a fairytale land. His only weapon is the same cursed power that once destroyed this world — what some would call magic, and others would call technology. As his relentles…
Trouble! at Coal Creek / Austin Sauerbrei.
"Told through the eyes of a young Welsh immigrant, Trouble! at Coal Creek is the epic story of a cross-racial struggle to abolish the system of convict-leasing in the mines. Austin Sauerbrei's evocative black-and-white illustrations and masterful storytel…
Wake up, Pixoto! / Weng Pixin.
"Weng Pixin revisits herself at her most vulnerable, in her art school days. She tries on various identities trying to understand who she is. Is she a sexual libertine? A fine artist? A sensitive friend? Just then, in steps a charismatic art instructor wh…
The antifa comic book / Gord Hill, foreword by Mark Bray
"When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term "antifa" has bee…
Cannon / Lee Lai.
"We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was sup…
Let me in your window / horror stories by Adam Ellis.
This brand-new collection of delightful horror comics includes ten new thrilling and terrifying stories that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and peering out their windows in fright....Stories include Sleepwalker, about a terrifying and unexpl…
Bad dreams in the night / horror stories by Adam Ellis.
"In these eleven spine-tingling horror comics, writer and illustrator Adam Ellis explores the supernatural and deeply unsettling stories lurking in everyday life. From mysterious islands and haunted ramen shops to murder mysteries and other freak occuren…
Redman's muddy waters too / Reggie Noble, Ben Katzner, words ; Geo Gant, art ; Fred C. Stresing, colors ; Andworld Design, letters
"Doc has invented MUD, soil so special that when the right music is played, it allows plants to grow at hyper-speed. Doc knows MUD can save the world, helping to feed everyone...but, more importantly, it’ll grow a bunch of super potent weed. Too bad his M…
Buff soul / Moa Romanova ; translator: Melissa Bowers.
How do you prevent history from repeating itself, and is it possible to protect the one you love from themselves? When cartoonist Moa Romanova (Goblin Girl) joins her rock star bestie on a U.S. tour, life quickly turns chaotic, as adolescent trauma begins…
Everything sucks! :
"Michael Sweater combines ’90s animation nostalgia, sitcom antics, and a seasoning of stoner comedy in this hilarious comic collection, including all six issues of the Everything Sucks series along with a gluttony of bonus material. Noah and Calla are hi…
Rowlf : and other fantasy stories / Richard Corben, art and script ; José Villarrubia, art restoration and project art director ; Nate Piekos of Blambot, letters ; foreword by Hayao Miyazaki.
"The next volume of the Richard Corben Library is a trilogy of werewolf stories. Rowlf is a postmodern take of Beauty and the Beast that mixes high fantasy with dystopian science fiction. It is the first masterpiece in Corben’s long career. The Beast of W…
More weight : a Salem story / Ben Wickey.
"In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 is a year of terror. When accusations of witchcraft plunge the community into paranoia and death, curmudgeonly farmer Giles Corey and his great-souled wife Martha are forced to confront their troubled pasts, fighting to hold…
Tower Dungeon. 1 / Tsutomu Nihei ; translation, Sam Malissa ; lettering, Darren Smith.
"An evil necromancer slays the king and carries off his daughter, secreting her in the legendary Dragon Tower. To save the princess, her steadfast Royal Guard assays the stronghold, but the way is blocked by powerful eldritch creatures… So, to supplement …
Gachiakuta. 2 / Kei Urana ; graffiti design, Hideyoshi Andou ; original digital translators Alethea Nibley & Athena Nibley ; print edition lettering, Jamil Stewart.
"Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he’s falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful convict…
Firefly wedding. 3 / story and art by Oreco Tachibana ; translation: Andria McKnight ; touch-up art and lettering Finn K.
"Having narrowly escaped a crisis at the island brothel, Satoko and Shinpei now attempt a secret escape on a small boat. Satoko tries to explain to Shinpei that marrying a man her father approves of to help her family is more important to her than love, b…
Shiver as you read! : weird horror from Men's Adventures and Amazing Detective cases / editor: Dr. Michal J. Vassallo.
"The 1950s boom in horror comics saw Atlas Comics' entrée into the genre. Beginning in March 1952, Amazing Detective Cases began detailing cases where justice was served in supernatural fashion and beginning in May 1953, the adventures in Men’s Adventures…