Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel
10 best books like Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel (Daphne Gottlieb): I'm Afraid of Men, Pashmina, Grimoire Noir, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Calling Dr. Laura, One Hundred Demons, They Called Us Enemy, Amelia's Notebook, My New York Diary, The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0735235937 |
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
| Author | Nidhi Chanani |
| ISBN | 1626720878 |
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions--the topic of India is permanently closed.
For Pri,...
Bucky Orson is a bit gloomy, but who isn’t at fifteen?
His best friend left him to hang out with way cooler friends, his dad is the town sheriff, and wait for it―he lives in Blackwell, a town where all the girls are witches. But when his little sister is kidnapped because of her extraordinary...
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1580051847 |
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0547615590 |
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 1570614598 |
In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race, and the hood. Name that Demon!!! Freaky boyfriends! Shouting Moms! Innocence betrayed! These are some of the pickled demons...
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1416909052 |
When Amelia’s mom gives her a journal for her birthday, she finally has a place to share her truest feelings at last!
Nine-year-old Amelia’s mother gives her a blank notebook to write down her thoughts and tells her it will make her feel better. Why would a dumb notebook make me feel better,...
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 1896597831 |
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT
Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in...
| Author | Diane DiMassa |
| ISBN | 1573440841 |
The Complete Collection combines Hothead Paisan and Revenge of Hothead Paisan with new strips in a single volume for the first time.
Holy smokes, but how have I not read this before?
Are you old enough to remember zines? Ah, the good old days of subversive zines. That I missed reading...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas
| Author | Aaron McGruder |
| ISBN | 0740713957 |
The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 1551527502 |
In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes...
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
| Author | A.K. Summers |
| ISBN | 1593765401 |
First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, “Can butches...
| Author | James Vance |
| ISBN | 0393328481 |
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving...
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 0932379176 |
All of the Dykes to Watch out For books came into my store. Or, like, the first ten or so. So fine, FINE, I'm gonna get over myself and admit that I have such a bad book crush on Alison Bechdel and ALSO that maybe I can have a sense of humor about what a fuckin lezzie I am. So.
So this first one is weird because...
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
| Author | Dan Savage |
| ISBN | 0452287634 |
In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage-outspoken author of the column "Savage Love"- makes it personal.
Dan Savage's mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn't want to act like a straight...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1932360565 |
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
| Author | Marguerite Abouet |
| ISBN | 1897299419 |
“[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible.” —Vibe Vixen
The original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination and praise for its accessibility...
| Author | Ken Dahl |
| ISBN | 0979960940 |
Part fiction and part deranged educational film strip, Monsters focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of an STD that rarely affects two people the same way. Following his acclaimed collection of short comics, Welcome to the Dahlhouse, Ken Dahl cements his status...
| Author | Kevin Jennings |
| ISBN | 0807071463 |
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son's eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn't supposed to cry.
He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals,...
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 1563411229 |
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| Author | Joshua W. Cotter |
| ISBN | 0977030474 |
Observing the isolated existence of an adolescent cat, his younger brother and their overactive imaginations in the American Heartland, Skyscrapers of the Midwest serves as an intimate chronicle of their stories of childhood hope, panic, and loss. Filled with belligerent cowboys, lumbering automaton...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300126719 |
Ivan Brunetti returns with a new selection of 20th and 21st-century comic creations by some of the most original artists in the medium
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan...
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is the first in a series of books from La Mano collecting the work of John Porcellino. Over the course of 15 years and 64 issues of his much-loved, self published 'zine KING-CAT Comics and Stories, John has chronicled his life and the world around him with honesty, grace,...
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 1563410869 |
Throbbing Dykes To Watch Out For is Alison Bechdel's seventh sensuous cartoon collection, her libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture. While M - our lesbian-feminist everywoman - looks on askance, sexy babe Lois and postmodern femme-top Sydney spearhead...
| Author | Daniel Raeburn |
| ISBN | 0300102917 |
A close-up look at the gifted graphic novelist the New York Times Book Review called "the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known."
As one of today’s most renowned cartoonists, Chris Ware is widely considered an artist of genius. Combining innovative comic book art,...
All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay D.C.
| Author | Craig Seymour |
| ISBN | 1416542051 |
A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF."I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass...
The Acme Novelty Library #1
The first issue of the Novelty Library focuses on Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid On Earth, though only two pages of this issue were later collected in the Jimmy Corrigan novel. In the main 24 page color story we see scenes from his life -- as a young boy, as a young man, as middle-aged man, and as on old man....
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 0867196203 |
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Why did it happen? What makes it possible? This book has no point, it barely tells a story, and it is ridiculously aloof. Like talking to a coked up drag queen, smearing mascara all over your sensible sweater and gushing out their life story, morbidly fascinating, but you...
