by Olivie Blake, illus. by Little Chmura
Clara & the Devil, the sleek, tense, and seductive first volume of a graphic collaboration between Olivie Blake (Gifted & Talented; Masters of Death) and artist Little Chmura, makes temptation new again.
Clara and her boyfriend of seven years plan to stay in town after they graduate college; they'll finally have sex, and everything will be perfect. She even has a full-time position lined up at the public library. When the devil comes in for a library card, she knows better than to get involved with
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by Emily Doyle
The 11 stories in Emily Doyle's bracing debut collection, Please Don't Touch the Body, vibrate with undercurrents of guilty desire, delicious rage, and the bewildering mysteries of the underworld. Motherhood and its discontents connect the characters across lush villas, stark hospital rooms, an oyster farm, and multiple Petco locations, while Doyle's dark, dazzling humor offsets the absurdity of life.
In "The Diver," a mother shattered by divorce struggles to reconnect with her son. A professional diver, she
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by Grace Farris
Birthing her first child turned Grace Farris into a patient--which made the good doctor "want to rethink everything and reconsider [her] medical training." And so she wrote and illustrated See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor, insightfully distilling her medical journey through charmingly accessible comics.
In 1996, as a summer volunteer, 14-year-old Farris learned she "didn't mind the much-maligned 'hospital smell.' " She realized her medical school dream in 2004 when she enrolled
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by AJ O. Mason, Dominic Bustamante
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman meets KPop Demon Hunters in the tenderly romantic and intrepid YA graphic novel Kloud 9.
Star children are born out of stars and are "supposed to use their magical abilities to fight off threats and help protect the system" around the star that birthed them. Silver-haired, light-skinned Cosmoturr Col Al'neyr (aka "Cosmo") is a star child who, now a young man, must become a Star Soldier. Unfortunately, he hasn't yet developed his magic powers, making his demanding mentor, Andromeda,
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by Renée Nault
The visually euphoric YA graphic novel Salvage by debut author/artist Renée Nault (adaptor, The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel) features immersive world-building, memorable characterization, and sadly relevant social and environmental commentary.
In the aftermath of rising sea levels and mass "climate displacement," the characters of Salvage live in a coastal city divided into two neighborhoods: the glamorous, hilltop Uplands and the poverty-stricken, waterlogged Flats. Teenager Paolo, who lives
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