Comic and Graphic Novel Authors at the 2017 Miami Book Fair
Penelope Bagieu, California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas
In Mike
Cavallro's science fiction/fantasy, Decelerate
Blue, a young woman is recruited into a resistance movement to resist a
world in which speed and efficiency are everything, but can they succeed before
the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment?
In Nidhi
Chanani's first graphic novel, Pashmina,
a girl growing up in the US wonders about her Indian heritage, until a
mysterious pashmina transports her to a place more vivid and colorful than any
guidebook or Bollywood film. (children/elem)
In Kim
Dwinell's graphic novel, Surfside
Girls: The Secret of Danger Point, Samantha and her friend start
investigating the weird stuff happening in Surfside--like ghosts, and pirates,
and something even scarier! (children/elem)
Take That, Adolf! is a compilation of
more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II
featuring America’s greatest super-villain curated by film scholar Mark Fertig, who also contributes an
introductory essay examining comics’ coming-of-age amidst the greatest
cataclysm in modern history.
At its core, Michel Fiffe's comic, Zegas
is a collection of interactions that map out orphaned siblings' most primal
concerns: survival, sex, and mortality.
In Nicole
J. Georges' gorgeous graphic novel Fetch:
How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home she chronicles her symbiotic, codependent
relationship with Beija, and probes what it means to care for and be
responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at
toddlers.
Eric Grissom's science fiction
graphic novel Gregory Suicide takes
readers into a frightening future.
Erin Hicks's Eisner Award-winning The Adventures of Superhero Girl
presents the re-released, expanded version, featuring two new stories, and new
art. (Expanded Edition) (children/elem)
Matt Holm, Swing
It, Sunny (children/elem)
Janet Lee's Eisner-winning graphic novel, Return of the Dapper Men, blends
clockwork whimsy with majestic art-nouveau visuals, into a hand-crafted fairy
tale that feels both familiar and entirely new. (children/elem)
George O’Connor’s Artemis: Wild Goddess of the Hunt is a graphic novel that portrays
the myth behind the Greek goddess Artemis.
In Molly Knox Ostertag’s
graphic novel The Witch Boy, a boy identifies as a witch in a family
where all boys become shapeshifters.
In Mimi
Pond’s graphic novel The Customer is
Always Wrong, a young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around
her succumb to addiction and alcoholism.
Nate Powell's Omnibox: Featuring Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire, & You Don't
Say
Trina Robbins, Last Girl Standing
Jason Shiga’s graphic novel Demon 2 is the second installment in a
four volume mystery adventure about the shocking chaos one highly rational and
utterly sociopathic man can create in the world, given a single simple
supernatural power.
In his new comic book, Terms and Conditions master satirist Robert Sikoryak tackles the iTunes contract everyone agrees to but
no one reads.
Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel for
children, Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!
(Lumberjanes #1) follows a group of unusual girls who have supernatural
adventures at a special summer camp.
Tillie Walden’s graphic memoir Spinning, captures what it’s like to
come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you
used to know.
Scott Westerfeld’s The Spill is a graphic novel that follows the aftermath of an
industrial spill in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences is the third
book in the graphic children’s novel Secret Coders series from Gene Luen Yang; in this installment, Principal Dean demands
the secret coders turn over their most powerful robot.
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Your graphic novel list is pretty darn good. I'm going to read em all. Mimi's Pond's & Mariko Tamaki's novels will be first on my to-read list. Please do a review on Joe Sugg's Username Evie.
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