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2) Heartstopper
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 5
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
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Cary Library's Teen LGBTQIA Stories
Dedham's Romancing the Library 2023 YA
Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award
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Dedham's Romancing the Library 2023 YA
Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award
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Description
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork. Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book. -- Rainbow Rowell, author of Carry On Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In three vignettes, a genderless young adult named XXXX (depicted as a triangle-shaped humanoid) deals with different stages of their life, trauma, and mental illness. As their identity transformes, so does their perspective. An intense, incisive look at what it takes to keep surviving. In the first segment, "Homewrecker," XXXX makes an unplanned visit home, where the family tries to be supportative but XXXX's aggressive behavior escalates into violence....
Author
Publisher
A Nightfire Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger's Where Black Stars Rise is an eldritch horror graphic novel that explores mental illness and diaspora, set in modern-day Brooklyn. Dr. Amal Robardin, a Lebanese immigrant and a therapist in training, finds herself out of her depth when her first client, Yasmin, a schizophrenic, is visited by a nightly malevolent presence that seems all too real. Yasmin becomes obsessed with Robert Chambers' classic horror story collection...
7) Couch tag
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jesse Reklaw's graphic memoir, told through conceits like cat histories and card games, is about his childhood and involves family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use ... The graphic novel is told in five parts: In 'Thirteen Cats' (featured in The Best American Comics), Reklaw discovers coping mechanisms that mimic his family pets; 'Toys I Love' relates the author's pre-pubescent brushes with deviant sexual activity, and the way innocence converges...
Author
Series
Colder volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Declan Thomas's body temperature is dropping. He never gets sick, never feels pain. An ex-inmate of an insane asylum that was destroyed in a fire, he has the strange ability to step inside a person's madness - and sometimes cure it. He hopes to one day cure his own, but time is running out, as a demonic predator pursues him through a nightmare version of Boston - and when Declan's temperature reaches zero...it's over!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Bird Brain is a collection of brutally honest, brilliantly weird comics exploring what it's like to live with mental illness...using pigeons. When Chuck Mullin began experiencing anxiety and depression as a teenager, she started drawing comics to help her make sense of the rollercoaster. Eventually, she found that pigeons--lovably quirky, yet universally reviled creatures--were the ideal subjects of a comic about mental illness. Organized in three...
Author
Series
Colder volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Life goes on for Declan Thomas after his deadly encounter with the psychotic Nimble Jack, but Declan's strange powers continue to develop, offering him a profound connection with the nature of insanity. Little does he know that the malevolent Swivel wishes to pick up where Nimble Jack left off!"--
12) Rat time
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Keiler Roberts is a droll documentarian, unfaltering in her ability to find humour and levity in her life's unflattering moments. Pet deaths and parenting, embarrassing childhood memories and mental illness, Roberts documents her daily life's minutiae, its up and downs, with the deftness of an observational comedian. Her comics demonstrate that sometimes life can deal you a punch to the gut, but it doesn't have to be devoid of a punch line."--Publisher's...
14) LOVF
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"LOVF is the sketchbook companion of a man literally losing his mind. Homeless and broke after giving all his stuff to punk rock heroin dealers, he ends up off his meds and on a secret quest from Portland to Brooklyn, DC, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle. Jammed with cartoons, mad schemes, psychedelic portraits, and notes from the road, LOVF is a travel journal, and a mirror of the post-traumatic dreamworld its author can't escape from. After losing...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"Written by legendary comics creator Grant Morrison and beautifully illustrated by artist Dave McKean, the timeless, genre-bending tale BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM is brought back to its classic beauty in this deluxe hardcover edition! In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment of the mentally ill. More than half a century later,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious madman returns to claim Boston's sanity, Declan Thomas can only fight him by fulfilling a dark prophecy. With each step, with each use of his abilities, with every ounce of effort he gives to hold onto his sanity, he grows colder. Step by step, moment by moment, closer and closer to zero. With his body failing and his sanity crumbling, Declan balances between falling into madness and falling onto a dinner plate, because Nimble Jack...
Author
Publisher
Ablaze
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel edition of The Fall of the House of Usher, Raul Garcia adapts his animated short. A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher...
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