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Unlikely

Jeffrey Brown · 256 pages

The cartoonist uses a full-length graphic novel format to tell the bittersweet story of how he lost his virginity at age 24 and presents vignettes from his relationship with Allisyn that take place before and after the event.

Stitches

David Small · 336 pages

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched toget

A Drifting Life

Yoshihiro Tatsumi · 855 pages

Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel · 224 pages

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman,

Blankets

Craig Thompson · 592 pages

Loosely based on the author's life, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.

The Dumbest Idea Ever!

Jimmy Gownley · 240 pages

My New York Diary

Julie Doucet · 100 pages

From the publisher: "*My New York Diary* is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed and iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs."

The Story of My Tits

Jennifer Hayden · 344 pages

"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastecto

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22

MariNaomi · 331 pages

Recounts the author's romantic experiences, from first love to heartbreak.

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

Maggie Thrash · 272 pages

Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent phys

Our Cancer Year

Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner

A graphic novel which depicts Harvey Pekar's struggle with cancer.

Alone Forever: The Singles Collection

Liz Prince · 104 pages

Liz Prince takes an autobiographical look in graphic novel form at dating and relationships.

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Siena Cherson Siegel · 64 pages

The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet

Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir

Stan Lee, Peter David

"In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading

Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey

Ozge Samanci · 190 pages

In her unpredictable and funny graphic memoir, Ozge recounts her story using inventive collages, weaving together images of the sea, politics, science, and friendship.

My Brain is Hanging Upside Down

David Heatley

Cartoonist David Heatley details his life in five graphically illustrated threads, and describes his history of sexual encounters, his thoughts on racism, his parents, and other related topics. Contains adult content.

The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir

Laurie Sandell · 247 pages

Describes the author's youth as the daughter of a man who shared fantastical tales about his privileged Buenos Aires youth, Vietnam heroism, and celebrity friendships, and her astonishment upon learning that her father fabricated many of his experiences.

Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey

G.B. Tran · 288 pages

A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.

One Hundred Demons

Lynda Barry · 224 pages

"Name that demon!!! Freaky boyfriend! Shouting Moms! Innocence betrayed! Rotten things we've done that will haunt us forever! These are some of the pickled demons Lynda Barry's stories serve up comic-strip style, mixing the true and the un-true into something she calls "autobifictionalography". Inspired by a 16th-century Zen monk's painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scro

The Voyeurs

Gabrielle Bell · 160 pages

"The voyeurs is a real-time memoir of four turbulent years in the life of renowned cartoonist and diarist Gabrielle Bell"--P. [4] cover.

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Marjane Satrapi · 187 pages

187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmGN500L Lexile

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

Julia Wertz · 226 pages

The Playboy

Chester Brown · 172 pages

Kampung Boy

LAT (Mohammad Nor Khalid) · 141 pages