AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020: Blue is the Warmest Colour by Julie Maroh

Originally published in French as Le Blue est Une Couleur Chaude, this graphic novel by Julie Maroh focuses on the lives of two young women in the late 1990s. It incorporates those typical coming-of-age, teenage concerns such as school, exams, parental (dis)approval and love. Clementine, a young girl in high school, finds herself inexplicably drawn […]

JUNE/JULY 2020: BLACK BY Kwanza Osajyefo

Black plays with history, both its relevance and its erasure. A collaborative effort between creator and writer Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle, Khary Randolph and Sarah Litt, Black is a Kickstarter success story and is now available on Amazon and ComiXology. Black’s premise starts with: what if only Black people had super-heroic abilities? […]

APRIL/MAY 2020: This One Summer BY Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

Created by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer is a coming-of-age story focusing on two pre-teens, Rose and Windy, who are vacationing in Awago. The oldest of the two, Rose, narrates the turbulent events of the summer while she feels caught between the ‘childish’ games she and Windy liked to play in the […]

February/March 2020: For the Love of God, Marie! By Jade Sarson

In 2014, an extract from For the Love of God, Marie! by Jade Sarson won the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. In 2016, the full book finally hit the shelves. A whirlwind about love and sexuality, this novel makes us think about what it means to love and what it means to be family. Marie, […]

January 2020: Irmina BY Barbara Yelin

Starting in the 1930s, this graphic novel follows the story of Irmina von Behdinger. She’s young and ambitious and determined to do whatever she wants to do. She meets Howard Green, a Black student at Oxford University while staying in London. However, when Irmina has to return to Germany, they eventually lose touch and she […]

May 2019: Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch

Looking to de-stress this exam season? Look no further! Rat Queens, Volume 1 is a wonderfully fun graphic novel that combines the best of DnD storytelling and graphic art. Fans of podcasts like The Adventure Zone by the McElroys or Critical Role should definitely give this graphic novel a try! And btw, did you know […]

APRIL 2019: Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot

This April, we’re looking at another autobiographical graphic novel, with a twist. Linking her experiences with her own father, a Joycean scholar, to James Joyce’s relationship with his daughter, Lucia, Mary M. Talbot asks us questions about father-daughter relationships and women’s liberation. Dotter of her Father’s Eyes charts Lucia Joyce’s (inevitable) descent into psychiatric care […]

March 2019: March Book One By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

Autobiographical in nature, March: Book One is the first part of a trilogy about U.S. Congressman John Lewis’ experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. The narrative contrasts the past and the present by regularly juxtaposing Lewis’ own boyhood experiences growing up in rural Alabama with his current status as a congressman. This allows the reader […]

February 2019: As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman

Published in paper via kickstarter by Iron Circus Comics for the first time in 2017, As the Crow Flies focuses on Charlie Lamonte who is attending a Christian youth backpacking camp. She is black and thirteen years old, surrounded by women and girls who are looking to empower themselves … and are also all white. […]

January 2019: In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

In this graphic novel, the main character, Anda, is introduced to an online multiplayer game for the first time and joins the woman-only guild called Clan Fahrenheit. While it’s all just good fun at first, we soon learn that online gaming can be much more complicated. In Real Life is a cute, fast-paced story that […]