Coming-of-Age Graphic Novels
Being a teenager can be strange. Everything and everyone seems to be changing all at the same time. There is a need to exert independence, but the world still sees you as a child. It can be hard to navigate these ups and downs, but luckily, graphic novels have an almost magical quality to put your varying emotions into words and art. Seeing your struggles reflected in a book can help you feel less alone, give you solace, and see how characters handle similar situations. These graphic novels are the perfect remedy for any teenage ails and angst.
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Add to BookshelfThe Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis is a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most beloved graphic novels of all time. For the first time in hardcover, this stunning edition examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics today. Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom, Persepolis is “a dazzling singular achievement” (Salon) from one of the most highly regarded, uniquely talented graphic artists at work today.
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The Magic Fish
by Trung Le Nguyen
Tiến loves his family and his friends … but Tiến has a secret he’s been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together.
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Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal
by G. Willow Wilson
Marvel Comics presents the new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City — until she’s suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to bear? Kamala has no idea, either. But she’s comin’ for you, New York!
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The Underwater Welder
by Jeff Lemire
Pressure. An underwater welder on an oil rig, Jack is used to the pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. He seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son, but then something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever!
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Our Colors
by Gengoroh Tagame
Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a 16-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds, governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school. Sora’s world changes forever when he meets Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop, and who is completely, unapologetically out as a gay man. However, Mr. Amamiya paid a high price for his freedom of identity.
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Huda F Are You?
by Huda Fahmy
Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl, and she can’t rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. She’s miscellaneous, which makes her feel like no one at all. Until she realizes that it’ll take finding out who she isn’t to figure out who she is.
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Daytripper
by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’s life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: With his death. Each issue rediscovers the many varieties of daily life, in a story about living life to the fullest. Poignant, heartfelt and thoughtful, this comic is one of the most transcendent pieces of graphic storytelling ever to hit the printed page. Brothers Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba truly composed one of the industry’s masterworks.
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Full Shift: A Graphic Novel
by Jennifer Dugan
In this queer, supernatural YA graphic novel from the author of Some Girls Do and the illustrator of Wonder Woman: Warbringer, a reluctant teen werewolf would do anything to be human — if that’s what it takes to win her crush’s heart.
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Greater Secrets
by Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone
In a family gifted with the ability to see a mysterious light in the distance, one teen embarks on a fantastical journey to find her missing sister, and finally answer the question: Is this ancestral gift a blessing or a curse? This surreal graphic novel is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Mariko Tamaki.
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Rusty Brown
by Chris Ware
A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in progress: Part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories about a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars, and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
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No Rules Tonight
by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
From the creators of Banned Book Club comes a young adult graphic novel about unveiling secrets, confessing your crushes, and finding yourself: All in the mountains of South Korea on Christmas Eve.
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Esther’s Notebooks
by Riad Sattouf
Once a week for three years, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf had a chat with his friend’s outgoing young daughter, Esther, in which she told him about her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams, and her fears. After each meeting, he would create a one-page comic strip based on what she had said. Esther’s Notebooks gathers 156 of those strips, spanning Esther’s life from ages nine through twelve, giving us a delightful look into the daily dramas of this thoughtful, intelligent, and high-spirited girl.
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The Gulf
by Adam de Souza
Staring down the final days of high school, a group of friends run away from home in order to join a commune in this YA graphic novel for ages 14 and up. This anti-coming-of-age road trip adventure, by talented comic artist Adam de Souza, captures at once the angst and humor of being a teen during a time of great transition. Stand by Me meets Catcher in the Rye by way of Skim.
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Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel
by David Arnold
Set over the course of a single day, Luminous Beings explores the many facets of friendship and love, the heavy burden of a well-kept secret, the boundless tenacity of the human spirit, and, yes, the furriest of all zombified mammals. But don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world. Just the end of the squirrel.
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They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition
by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker
The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with bonus material! Experience the forces that shaped an American icon — and America itself — in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.
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