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1) Any empire
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[A] group of small-town kids find themselves bound together by geography, boredom, and a string of mysterious turtle mutilations. Years later, with Army tanks rolling through the streets of their hometown, these young adults are forced to confront painful questions of privilege, duty, betrayal, and courage" -- from publisher's web site.
2) Come again
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations : 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lover's dream becomes a parent's nightmare in the astonishing new graphic novel from Nate Powell. As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers in one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks. But what's missing? Under impossibly close scrutiny, two families wrestle with long-repressed secrets... while deep within those Arkansas hills, something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers. In his triumphant...
3) Fall through
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
183 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour--from National Book Award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell. At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas's first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided--largely against their will--by vocalist Diana's powerful spell embedded into their song "Fall Through." As Diamond Mine tours...
Author
Series
March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Language
English
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Description
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Language
English
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Description
This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
10) The lost hero
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Publisher
Yoe Books!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars - real and fictional - as narrative fodder, often with a strong message attached. Buried in rare comics published during the Cold War were powerful war, fantasy, and sci-fi stories that strongly condemned war and the bomb, boldly calling for peace. While a few comics of the time portrayed the horrors of war, the more blatant anti-war stories were largely unappreciated or so cloaked in metaphor...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
915 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"For readers eager to dive right into Jeff LeMire's strange sci-fi story, Sweet Tooth the compendium is now available! An inexplicable plague has women giving birth to human-animal hybrid children all over the world. The deer-child Gus is left to fend for himself after his father dies, leaving him with more questions than answers. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sweet Tooth follows the innocent journey of a young hybrid boy suddenly...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the civil rights struggle heats up in 1967 Texas, two families--one white, one black--find common ground. The white family, from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs, and the black family, from its poorest ward, cross Houston's color line to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
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