Graphic Novels: Graphic Novels in the Madison College Libraries

Stories from a diverse array of writers and artists provoked by the events of September 11.

Stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.

Noirish narratives.

Graphic history of a wrongfully enslaved West African woman named Abina.

Shares the awkwardness of young modern life such as body image, self-consciousness, and introversion.

Chronicles a boy at a new school where he is the only Chinese-American student.

September 11 as a personal tragedy.

Story of Andre Roussimoff , the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a pro wrestler who died tragically young.

A story of the immigrant experience.

Graphic novel satire of modern environmental policy.

Tale of a middle-aged man whose life is upended when he moves to a small town after his New York City apartment goes up in flames.

Graphic autobiographical short stories.

Recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy named Gen, focusing on how ordinary people suffer from war.

Explores the generation that in the face of American conformity was known for its uprootedness, addictions, and creativity.

A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom.

The world building of Wakanda continues.

WIinner of the Eisner Award, a graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party and their cultural and political influence legacy.

A story of the sibling rivalry of two brothers and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers in Wisconsin and Michigan's U.P.

In 1933 Teddy Mishkin is hard at work on his latest cartoon short for Waldo the Cat. In his head, Waldo is real and his helpful assistant.

Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse.

Seminal works by Spiegelman that changed how comics are made and appreciated today.

Follows the prince Siddhartha as he runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices.

Examines a country using concealment and isolation as social control.

Follows four humans and a genie as they navigate Cairo's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka.

Graphic adaptation of Darwin's classic.

Chronicles the rise and reign of Chairman Mao Zedong against the backdrop of the creation of the People's Republic of China.

Looks at our planet and how we live on it as it explores global warming.

Part "The Thin Red Line," part "All Quiet On the Western Front," part Vietnam War, and part something else.

The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about interracial and representation.

Recounting of the battle indigenous Ecuadorians and their allies waged against Texaco/Chevron over the energy company's destruction of portions of the Amazon.

Retelling of the famous anarchist and radical icon Emma Goldman's extraordinary life.

Graphic novel version of "Dante's Divine Comedy."

Things go awry for a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life when he meets the girl of his dreams.

Short stories produced to celebrate the tenth anniversary of noted graphic novel publisher Dark Horse Comics.

Wrenching coming-of-age tale.

Evocative depiction based on the life of the Austro-Hungarian artist known for drawing nudes whose short career spanned the turn of the 20th century.

Hailed as one of Europe's most important and innovative comics artists, David B. writes about growing up with an epileptic brother.

Sacco immerses himself in Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict.

Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

Biography of an artist whose whose talents as a painter would have an enormous influence on the art of Picasso, Matisse, and many more.

Eisner Award-winning team's biography of Alex Toth.

Quasi-autobiographical story following the adventures of two teenage girls facing the prospect of growing up and apart.

Story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where human history has been forgotten and a small group falls upon the Louvre, buried in snow.

Follows a barnstorming Jewish baseball team in the 1920's who travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads.

In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women.

Story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I.

Story of Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andr, who was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination.

Showcases Brosh's unique voice, wit, and ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.

When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California.

I Was Their American Dream is at once a journal of growing up and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children.

After the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town, the author begins a lifelong fascination with ruins and people left behind.

In the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave reporters - light-skinned African-Americans - risked their lives to expose the truth, known as 'going incognegro'.

Spiegelman bore witness to the attacks in his lower Manhattan neighborhood.

Examines why we choose to spend one's life creating comics or producing wine.

Graphic guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism.

Illustrates the day to day of the grunts in the trenches during World War I.

J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage.

Offers a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem.

Takes readers from the smuggling tunnels of Gaza to war-crimes trials in The Hague, from the lives of India's "untouchables" to the suffering in Iraq, and more.

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired

Recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell.

In honor of those killed in Orlando, some of the greatest talent in comics offer stories mourning the victims and supporting the survivors.

Eisner Award-winning series presented in a deluxe hardcover for the first time follows the adventures of a group of women at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types.

Vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, including his key roles in the historic 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March.

Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy.

Story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

The story of Sacco's mother's harrowing experiences in Malta in WWII, and his impassioned reflection on the Gulf War.

Semi-autobiographical account from the preeminent figure of Gekiga about the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II.

Explores people's identities and how the two become confused through the Internet and role-playing games.

A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s.

Award-winning graphic biography of Pablo Picasso.

Based on Sacco's visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he interviewed Palestinians and Jews.

Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive AIDS educator who appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, is remembered by Pedro's roommate on the show.

Here, in one volume is Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of her unforgettable childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution.

Reporter's record of a journey through Afghanistan accompanying Doctors Without Borders.

In 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad.

Artwork done by Madison College Student Michael Edwards.Satirical story about contemporary society, superhero narratives, and life in general.

Observations from Delisle, one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country of North Korea.

Pekar's work, memorialized in the movie American Splendor, is an ongoing chronicle of his life.

Argues against mass incarceration in the United States by showing the impact on communities of color.

Traces key episodes in the suthor's life, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life.

Hugo Award-winning story.

Details Japan in World War II.

Collection of stories highlighting African American history.

Follows Helen Potter, sexually abused as a child, on a journey through urban and rural England along the same path author Beatrix Potter once took.

Graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.

Draws the connections between the international sex and garment trades and human trafficking in an illustrated comics series.

Defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a work of graphic art and an inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge.

Documents the brief and intense period of creativity Van Gogh spent in Arles.

Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes.

Cheer courtside for a Muslim teen in this graphic novel-inspired by a true story.

Set 100 years in our future, the story follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent...the United States of America.

Short stories from a graphic novels icon.

Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, returns to graphic art with this collaboration of over 20 activists, artists, journalists, and academics working together to depict the historic uprising of the Iranian people and in defense of feminism.

Takes readers inside a second-chance high school in New York City where all the students are considered at-risk.