Drawing on his grandparents’ history, Elías Taño follows a family divided by poverty and migration after the Spanish Civil War. A grandfather leaves La Palma for Venezuela, while a grandmother raises the family at home. Their separate struggles connect intimate memory with exploitation, political violence and the costs of searching for a livelihood overseas.
An experimental headset draws Rubius into a network of video game worlds that feels startlingly real. When the test turns into a trap, he must navigate unfamiliar rules, protect his companions and confront a masked enemy. This graphic adventure brings the logic of gaming into a story of friendship, danger and escape.
Alana and Marko come from opposite sides of a galactic war and want to raise their newborn child together. This opening comic issue introduces a family whose existence challenges the conflict around them, beginning their attempt to survive beyond its dividing lines.
A family takes in a lost kitten and discovers how much a small animal can change an ordinary home. Through Chi's encounters with people, unfamiliar creatures and everyday objects, this first manga volume follows the beginnings of a shared life, finding comedy in the kitten's curiosity and her new family's attempts to understand her.
Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood in Tehran as revolution and war transform the world around her. Family conversations and private rebellions collide with the demands of public life. This first English volume of her graphic memoir follows a girl trying to understand political upheaval while growing into her own convictions.
Exiled fairy tale characters live secretly among the people of New York. When Rose Red disappears and her apartment suggests a violent crime, Bigby Wolf begins an investigation that unsettles their community. This opening collection combines a murder mystery with the rivalries and compromises of familiar figures adapting to a very different world.
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell construct a speculative account of the Whitechapel murders and the society surrounding them. Historical research, imagined conspiracy and the geography of Victorian London combine in a graphic novel concerned with violence, power and the traces they leave.
Art Spiegelman reconstructs his father’s experience of the Holocaust while examining their difficult relationship in the present. This collected graphic narrative links survival and memory with the challenges of understanding a parent’s life and representing historical trauma.
The Joker targets Commissioner Gordon and his daughter Barbara to demonstrate his own bleak view of human nature. Batman confronts the violence of that experiment in a graphic story about the unstable boundary between heroism, cruelty and madness.
In an alternate history transformed by the existence of superheroes, a murder draws former masked vigilantes back together. Their investigation unfolds against Cold War tensions, exposing the political ambitions and personal compromises concealed behind the idea of saving the world.