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

Hostage / Guy Delisle ; translated by Helge Dascher.
"How does one survive when all hope is lost? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André wa…
The power fantasy. Volume 1, the superpowers / Kieron Gillen, writer ; Caspar Wijngaard, artist ; Clayton Cowles, letterer.
"'Superpowered.' You have certain preconceptions. They’re incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, 'any individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the U.S.A.' There are six such people on Earth. The p…
Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York City / Julia Wertz.
"In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist’s New York (the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all), but the un…
Saint Catherine / Anna Meyer.
"In her twenty-something years of existence, Catherine never skipped mass once. As a recovering Irish American Catholic, she has mostly traded the world of communion and confessionals for the 'city-girl' struggle of work-life balance, family, and her rela…
Land of mirrors / María Medem ; translated from Spanish by Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz.
"Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her surr…
The labyrinth / illustrations & texts, Simon Stålenhag ; translation, Ebba Segerberg.
"An eight-wheeled vehicle trundles across a barren landscape of ash and ruined buildings toward a lone bunker deep in the wilderness. Inside the vehicle are three passengers: two scientists—who plan to use the outpost as a home base for the study of world…
Gaysians / Mike Curato
"When AJ moves to Seattle in the early aughts, he’s ready to reinvent himself as a gay Asian man—but his dreams hit reality fast with no friends, no job, and an apartment so far out, 'not even lesbians live there.' Then a spilled drink at a bar introduces…
Sunder. Tome 1, Small beginnings / Pierre-Alexandre Comtois, writer & artist ; Mark Englert, colorist ; Buddy Beaudoin, letterer.
"When a mysterious book appears in the library of a young monk named Zeek, he must embark on a quest to find its rightful owner. Unbeknownst to him, another dark figure has been searching for this very book for a very long time, sending his minions across…
I ate the whole world to find you / Rachel Ang.
"I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma, treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of Jenny, a twenty-something-going-on-thirty-something partial hot mess who’s routing her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigates friendsh…
Raymond Chandler's Trouble is my business / Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, Cris Peter ; lettering by Taylor Esposito ; foreword by Ben H. Winters.
"In 1940s Los Angeles, a sour-faced millionaire hires Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled, harder-drinking detective, to scare off a suspected gold digger who has gotten her claws into his even wealthier stepson. Marlowe takes the case but quickly discovers tha…
Indigo. 1 / Chi-Ho Kwong ; Chi-Kit Kwong.
"Ella is a reporter for an occult magazine, living what appears to be a normal life. She’s not the best at getting along with people, but she has the special ability to sometimes know what other people are thinking. She also possesses an extreme sensibili…
Checked out / Kate Fricas.
"An aspiring cartoonist and book lovin’ lesbian, Louise works a dead-end day job at a shoe store, where she spends most of her time brooding over a coworker who will never quite love her back. By night, she works diligently and obsessively on her graphic …
Salt green death / Katarina Thorsen.
"On November 21, 1948, Joseph O’Dwyer’s suicide attempt was interrupted when a bystander pulled him out of the Kitsilano Pool in Vancouver. This set a series of events in motion that ends with O’Dwyer’s institutionalization at British Columbia’s first for…
The bugle call : song of war. 1 / story by Mozuku Sora ; art by Higoro Toumori ; translation, Caleb Cook ; touch-up art and lettering, Annaliese
"In Arboral Year 1294, the world is dominated by nine massive towers known as the Spires—remnants of an advanced civilization, they are filled with lost secrets and powerful knowledge that nations struggle to possess. Luca is a bugler in a mercenary compa…