The Color of Water
10 best books like The Color of Water (Kim Dong Hwa): The City on the Other Side, Here, Hark! A Vagrant, How To Be Happy, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1, The Eternal Smile: Three Stories, Cheshire Crossing, Whiteout, As the Crow Flies, DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test
The City on the Other Side
When a wealthy and sheltered young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms, the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance!
The first decade of the twentieth century is coming to a close, and San Francisco is still recovering from the great earthquake of 1906. Isabel...
| Author | Richard McGuire |
| ISBN | 0241145961 |
Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name.
Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989.
Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it...
| Author | Kate Beaton |
| ISBN | 1770460608 |
Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome emerges unscathbed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997408 |
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
| Author | Hayao Miyazaki |
| ISBN | 1591164087 |
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air....
The Eternal Smile: Three Stories
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1596431563 |
Meet Duncan.
Charming and brave, he's the Princess's favorite—and he's on his way to winning the throne. But lately, the walls of reality in Duncan's kingdom are wearing a little thin...
Meet Gran'pa Greenbax.
Nothing seems to satisfy this greedy old frog's longing for a pool full...
The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing--a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers.
But the trio--now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures--aren't content...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 0966712714 |
You can't get any further down than the bottom of the world - Antarctica. Cold, desolate, nothing but ice and snow for miles and miles. Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal, and she's made The Ice her home. In its vastness, she has found a place where she can forget her troubled past and feel at peace... Until someone...
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 | Hamish Steele |
| ISBN | 1910620475 |
Barney and his best friend Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all--their love lives!
Follow the lives of this diverse group of employees of a haunted house, which...
In the second installment of the TUNE series of graphic novels, our hapless hero Andy Go is settling into life in an alien zoo...as one of the exhibits. It's not so bad: the food is good, and his environment is a perfect copy of his house back on Earth. But everything falls to pieces when Andy realizes he's...
Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 02
Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, but things take a surprising turn when Caesar finds himself falling for his strange wife! Caesar tries to get Nakaba to return his feelings, but she maintains that...
Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 03
A medieval fantasy where a princess’s mysterious power alters her fate!Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.
Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also...
| Author | Yoko Nogiri |
| ISBN | 4063807479 |
北海道に転校してきた楠木（くすのき）こむぎに、転校初日から「君……なんかいい匂いすんね？」と話しかけてきた大神結（おおがみ・ゆう）。そんな彼が寝ているところに近づいたこむぎが見てしまったものは……もふもふのしっぽとケモノの耳!? なんと彼の正体はオオカミだったのです!! 狼、狐、狸etc....
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534313362 |
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
Mythical Beast Investigator Vol. 1
| Author | Koichiro Hoshino |
| ISBN | 1642750530 |
A lushly illustrated manga about a girl and her mysterious protector, sure to appeal to fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride and The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún!
Ferry is a mythical beast investigator, charged with keeping the peace between humanity and the many magical creatures...
The Woods, Vol. 4: Movie Night
| Author | James Tynion IV |
| ISBN | 1608868222 |
On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace, finding themselves countless light years away in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. In the wake of the election, the results...
The Woods, Vol. 3: New London
| Author | James Tynion IV |
| ISBN | 1608867730 |
The first year of the GLAAD nominated series concludes. The more the crew finds out about the woods, the deeper the mystery gets. With Clay and the Duke teaming up to try and force the school into servitude for the New London army, the kids need to think up a plan to save their peers, and fast. And with Adrian...
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 1582403813 |
Flight Volume One features stories by professionals and non-professionals alike, all playing on the theme of flight in its many incarnations. From the maiden voyage of a home-built plane to the adventures of a young courier and his flying whale to a handful of stories about coming of age and letting...
| Author | Mark Siegel |
| ISBN | 1101935928 |
In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn. Luckily, her friend Jax Amboy has returned from his adventures transformed! Now...
