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O Human Star, Volume One

10 best books like O Human Star, Volume One (Blue Delliquanti): Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Bloom, When I Arrived at the Castle, Stage Dreams, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, Always Raining Here, Volume 1, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Vol. 1: Poor Boys and Pilgrims, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Vol. 2: Wanderlust Kings, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Check, Please!: Year One

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
AuthorMariko Tamaki
Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...
Bloom
AuthorKevin Panetta
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing...
When I Arrived at the Castle
AuthorEmily Carroll
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."

Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
Stage Dreams
AuthorMelanie Gillman
ISBN1512440000
In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory. When Flor--also...
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
AuthorTeresa Wong
ISBN1551527650
In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from...
Always Raining Here, Volume 1
AuthorBell
(review for the whole webcomic and not just the first volume)

This was cute and at times really funny too. I'm happy with how it ended but honestly the first half of the comic felt very mmmmmmmmmm.........how do I say this. The authors themselves write in their bio that they're two straight ladies...
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Vol. 1: Poor Boys and Pilgrims
AuthorE.K. Weaver
ISBN0983875502
In the span of a single tumultuous evening, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative parents, gets disowned, goes on a bender... and wakes up the next morning to find a lanky, dread-locked vagrant names TJ in his kitchen.

TJ claims that the two have made a drunken pact...
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Vol. 2: Wanderlust Kings
AuthorE.K. Weaver
ISBN0983875510
First, this was fantastic. Very funny and genuinely sweet. Great art and great writing. Engaging characters. Never boring. TJ and Amal's relationship progressed in amusing and appropriate ways.

After their first time messing around


But please tell me this isn't a stalker...
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal
AuthorE.K. Weaver
In the span of a single day, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative parents, promptly gets disowned, goes on a bender... and wakes up the next morning to find TJ, a lanky, dreadlocked vagrant, frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen.

TJ claims that the two...
Check, Please!: Year One
AuthorNgozi Ukazu
ISBN1946360023
Christ on a cracker, this was good!

I'm a great believer in moody, dark, morose stories about thespian weirdos making bad choices, and yet this bright, happy, joyful comic about an adorable gay boy playing hockey and falling in love just...did it for me. I absolutely loved it. I loved it so much...
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Vol. 3: Ten Days of Perfect Tunes
AuthorE.K. Weaver
ISBN0983875537
All you need to know:



TJ and Amal is my favorite webcomic ever, and this is the final volume. It's full of humor and humanity, the art is beautiful, and the ending is absolutely perfect.

The entire thing is available for free online, but if you like it, I highly recommend getting...
The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause
AuthorJames Tynion IV
ISBN1608869938
All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic literally!

When Jory transfers to an all-boys private high school, he's taken in by the only ones who don't treat him like a new kid, the lowly stage crew known as the Backstagers. Not only does he gain great, lifetime...
As the Crow Flies
AuthorMelanie Gillman
Melanie Gillman's unique webcomic turned paperback about a queer (but I only learned this for sure from the cover, because it wasn’t obvious throughout) black (though her Dad appears to be white) teenager on a backpacking trip with what appears to be an all-white, cis-gendered Christian feminist...
Girl Town
AuthorCarolyn Nowak
ISBN1603094385
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.

Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
On a Sunbeam
AuthorTillie Walden
An epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden.

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest...
By Night, Vol. 1
AuthorJohn Allison
ISBN1684152828
After discovering a mysterious device, Jane and Heather decide try their hand at documentary filmmaking... in another dimension! 

There’s something strange going on in Spectrum, South Dakota. 

Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum...
Coda, Vol. 1
AuthorSimon Spurrier
ISBN1684153212
A broken fantasy that’s equal parts Lord of the Rings and Mad Max, Coda is the next original series by Eisner-nominated author Simon Spurrier (The Spire, Six-Gun Gorilla).

In the aftermath of an apocalypse which wiped out nearly all magic from a once-wondrous fantasy world, an antisocial...
The Chancellor and the Citadel
AuthorMaria Capelle Frantz
ISBN1945820268
Though much about The Chancellor and the Citadel is intriguing, there's not enough meat to those bones to actually make me like this graphic novel. This feels like the skeleton of a story, rather than a full story. Reading the whole thing took less than 30 minute, placing it in the length of an early reader...
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