If you are interested in finding out more details about finding graphic novels and comics in our collections, read on! Comics and Graphic Novels in the Stacks Klinger featuring characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike DringenbergĪya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie The Annotated Sandman, by Neil Gaiman edited, with an introduction and notes by Leslie S. Willow Wilson color artist, Ian Herring letterer, VC’s Joe Caramagna You will find a variety of graphic novels and comics from across our libraries on display. Please reach out to Emily if you are interested in seeing Maia's in progress children's picture books or young adult graphic novel pitches.įind resources to help fight Gender Queer book challenges here: bit.This month’s Collection Spotlight shines a light on graphic novels and comics.

Maia Kobabe is represented by Emily Mitchell of the Wernick and Pratt Agency. Eir work focuses on gender, sexuality, queerness, and pop culture fandom. E has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010, and has attended over fifty comic conventions in that time. Maia's next book is SAACHI'S STORIES, a graphic novel co-written with Lucky Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in spring 2025.īefore setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries.

E has also illustrated the YA prose novel WE ARE THE FIRE, WE ARE THE ASHES written by Joy McCullough (2021). Maia's short comics have been published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and included in the anthologies ALPHABET (2015), TABULA IDEM (2017), MINE! (2018), GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE (2018), THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS (2018), FASTER THAN LIGHT Y’ALL (2018), ADVANCED DEATH SAVES (2019), HOW TO WAIT (2019), SHOUT OUT (2019), ROLLED AND TOLD (2019), THEATER OF TERROR (2019), BE GAY, DO COMICS (2020) and THE MOST IMPORTANT COMIC BOOK ON EARTH: STORIES TO SAVE THE WORLD (2021). It recently received a new hardcover edition and has been translated into Spanish, Polish, Czech, French, and Italian with Norwegian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Japanese and Korean forthcoming. It was also the most challenged book in the United States in 20. GENDER QUEER was a winner of an Alex Award and Stonewall Honor in 2020, and nominated for an Ignatz Award and the Best Graphic Novels for Teens List from YALSA in 2019. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, came out from Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press in May 2019. Maia Kobabe is a graduate of the first ever class in the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

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