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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 46 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
WHY are so few women in the comics pages? That question becomes even more provocative as we watch four smart and witty role models -- Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and "Brenda Starr's" Dale Messick -- share their creative process. Viewers will find themselves looking at the comics, and the world, in a new way. Entertaining and informative, the cartoonists reveal fascinating relationships with their characters, who say or do exactly...
2) Just breathe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah...
Author
Series
Boy series volume 3
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
328, [14] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is veteran cartoonist Hollander?s first long-form work; her coming-of-age story, starring the gangsters, the glamorous, the bed bugs, the (enviable) Catholic girls, the police, the jukebox, the fortune teller, and the blue Hudson?the family car, always at the ready for frequent drives into better neighborhoods. Not only does this illustrated memoir give insight into how Hollander developed her style and wit, it?s a chronicle of a Chicago community...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein's state control, and her family's history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while also staying honest about the inequalities Black people have...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zelda Jackson—or Jackie—was born in Pittsburgh on August 1, 1911, and discovered early on that she could draw any adventure. A field she could run through as far as her hand could draw. An ocean she could color as blue as she liked. As she grew, Jackie put her artistic talents to use, doodling and chronicling daily life for her high school yearbook. But she was already dreaming of bigger things. Jackie would go on to create bold and witty cartoon...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
11) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
339 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn’t perfect. Her teachers can’t pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes—especially her eyes—feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told through real-life journals, collages, lists, and drawings, this coming-of-age story illustrates the transformation of an 18-year-old girl from a small-town teenager into an independent city-dwelling college student. Written in an autobiographical style with beautiful artwork, Little Fish shows the challenges of being a young person facing the world on her own for the very first time and the unease--as well as excitement--that comes along with...
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