Last Updated: March 11, 2025
Maple Terrace
by Noah Van Sciver
Based on the author’s childhood, Maple Terrace unfolds a tale of big money comic-collecting craze of the early 90s as seen from the ground floor. In a time when superheroes were oversized, adorned with massive guns, and countless pouches, comic books were currency! Young investors struggled to collect every cover gimmick under the sun–embossed-metallic ink-holographic foil–hoping they someday would pay for their college education. Brutally hilarious, Maple Terrace shines a light on the strange intersection between poverty and speculative comic book craze of the 90s.
Brittle Joints
by Maria Sweeney
An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disability.
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
by John Vasquez Mejias
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias’s The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination attempt against President Harry S. Truman.
Feeding Ghosts
by Tessa Hulls
Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife.
In this real-time work of graphic journalism (posted serially on Facebook), the cartoonist Igort uses the medium of comics to depict the telephone testimonies of Ukrainians as Russia invaded in 2022.
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
by Navied Mahdavian
A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West.