When the shifting of tectonic plates up and down the Atlantic opens up a huge fissure in a glacier in Iceland, a long-dormant volcano is revealed and, embedded in an interior wall, a cave filled with technology that is far too advanced... Read More

After Detective Sergeant Sean Ward is wounded in the line of duty and forced into a very early retirement from the force, he decides to take up work as a private detective specializing in cold cases. Retained by a lawyer intent on... Read More

Historically, the portrayal of women in comics has been a frustrating one, with female characters often relegated to the role of love interest, helper, or easily reformed adversary. However, Mike Madrid’s insightful new work, Vixens,... Read More

Though certainly the most novelesque of this group, Jamie’s Got a Gun is far too important a story to be excluded. Seventeen-year-old Jamie lives in poverty on the wrong side of town with a precocious younger sister and an overworked... Read More

This gorgeous collection of twenty-five sea-based comics has something for everyone: pirates, selkies, aliens, talking fish, lighthouse tenders, and sea monsters. The stories in Waterlogged: Tales from the Seventh Sea range from the... Read More

Joel Christian Gill’s Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History is another must-have to add to school reading lists. Gill’s work, named after the Billie Holliday song, tells the fascinating real life stories of nine... Read More

An unhappy teen tries to figure out where he belongs in the world and forms a band. Sound familiar? Yeah, well, in this one, the band is Nirvana, the unhappy teen is Kurt Cobain, oh, and did we mention it’s a rocking graphic novel and... Read More

Don’t think we’ve forgotten the young’uns. Luke Pearson’s newest addition to the Hilda series, "Hilda and the Black Hound", is the perfect book to get kids hooked on comics. Blue-haired Hilda is back in a fabulously imaginative... Read More