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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Excuse Me assembles more than 500 of her most loved cartoons from Instagram and The New Yorker over the past few years, in such distinctive chapters as: Love & Dating; Gender & Other Politics; Animals; Art & Myth-Making; Humanity; Time, Space, and How to Navigate Them; Strangeness, Shyness, Sadness; and Notes to Self.
Author
Series
Over easy volume 2
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is a continuation of Mimi Pond's book Over Easy, a memoir of her time working amongst the hippies and punks of the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking Imperial Café. Pond's story is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California - with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex and drug use - and bildungsroman of a young woman from naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout to self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed cartoonist Lucy Knisley (French Milk, Relish) got an opportunity that most only dream of: a travel-expenses-paid trip to Europe and Scandinavia, thanks to a book tour. An Age of License is Knisley's comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) adventures. Knisley's experiences are colored by anxieties, introspective self-inquiries, and quotidian revelations - about traveling alone in unfamiliar countries, and about her life...
5) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jimmy's dream to be a cartoonist is unthinkable by his parents, but the greatest pre-teen athlete in history is a fan of Jimmy's and they create comics together while Jimmy learns failure is one step along the way.
14) Clorine Gardens
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens' sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts' gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life's darker moments. She doesn't whistle past graveyards, but rather finds the punch line in the pitiful. -- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With Manfried the Man as his muse, affable tomcat Steve Catson is finally realizing his dream of becoming a cartoonist. And he's dating Henrietta, a chat noir with a heart of gold. But when a literal fat cat threatens to close down the Catlanta Man Shelter, where stray men get adopted by loving cats, both Steve and Manfried are forced to leave their comfort zone. Steve has to turn lazy Manfried into a prize-winning champion to save the shelter, while...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Late for school, a young cartoonist accidentally microwaves his notebook while trying to heat his breakfast. This releases a radioactive cloud of awesomeness that makes the drawings in his notebook come to life. Now he has to make it through a typical teenage day of schoolwork, bullies, and general awkwardness while trying to hold onto his sanity. Dud, a character he has drawn, becomes the boy's nemesis as they spar on the page through algebra, English,...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Rohan Kishibe is a madman! The incredibly talented comics artist is not just a popular mangaka but also a Stand user! What's the secret of Rohan's Stand? And will Koichi Hirose survive his encounter with Rohan, or will Josuke Higashikata and Shining Diamond have to figure out some way to save the day once again?"--Publisher's website.
18) Nineteen
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before her faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self. Whether it's friends, family, animals, or even a stranger on the internet, the stories in Nineteen exude...
Author
Series
Inside Moebius volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Actively exploring his storytelling methods within his own mind, Moebius draws himself encountering his favorite characters in an expansive desert setting. He interacts with Arzak, Blueberry, Stel, Atan, and others--and he also meets a younger version of himself!A self-reflective six-part study, Inside Moebius Part 2 collects the two middle chapters in this hilariously unique exploration of a creator meeting his own creations and over-analyzing his...
20) Bad friends
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...