Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers
10 best books like Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers (John Harris Dunning): Becoming Unbecoming, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Anya's Ghost, Skim, Climbing the Stairs, Hot Comb, Be Prepared, Stitches, As the Crow Flies
A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt
It’s 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it’s a really...
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
| Author | Eric Shanower |
| ISBN | 0785129219 |
Wonderful work indeed!
Creative Team:
Writer: Eric Shanower (based on the original works by L. Frank Baum)
Illustrator: Scottie Young
TAKE THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
I love these adaptations published by Marvel Comics about the original books...
| Author | Vera Brosgol |
| ISBN | 1596437138 |
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part.
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.
Falling down a well is bad enough, but...
| Author | Mariko Tamaki |
| ISBN | 0888997531 |
Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.
"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls'...
| Author | Padma Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 0399247467 |
A remarkable debut novel set in India that shows one girl's struggle for independence.
During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police,...
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm - a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood...
A gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost.
All Vera wants to do is fit in—but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera’s single...
| Author | David Small |
| ISBN | 0393068579 |
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.
In...
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...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 0810958406 |
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.
This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
| Author | Brian Ralph |
| ISBN | 1770460551 |
You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep, and then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector...
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 1419705830 |
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s favorite...
| Author | Rachel Lindsay |
| ISBN | 1455598542 |
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure...
Taking Turns: Stories from Hiv/AIDS Care Unit 371
| Author | M.K. Czerwiec |
| ISBN | 0271078189 |
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.
A shining example of excellence...
When Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit post a request for a baby sitter to watch their seven active bunnies they get only one applicant--a bear! Mrs. Rabbit is a bit uncomfortable leaving her brood in the care of an omnivore, but Mr. Rabbit is worried that they will be late for the party. The little bunnies make all kinds...
| Author | Whit Taylor |
| ISBN | 0996769293 |
Ghost Stories is a graphic novel collection offering three haunting explorations. Granted the chance to meet three of her dead idols in "Ghost," the author’s cartoon-self embarks on a journey to remote and unanticipated landscapes, in a story of self-discovery and healing. In "Wallpaper," a child...
The Answer (Steven Universe)
SPOILERS FOR STEVEN UNIVERSE
SPOILERS FOR STEVEN UNIVERSE
I'M NOT JOKING
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She was never meant to see Sapphire look at her like this - fascinated, bewildered, impressed - as if Ruby were the most important Gem in the universe!
What on Earth?!
LESBIAN...
