Graphic Memoirs

1) Are you my mother?: a comic drama

Author

Bechdel, Alison

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Writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel writes about her relationship with her mother.

2) The best we could do: an illustrated memoir

Author

Bui, Thi

Series

Best We Could Do

Formats:

Book, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"--Publisher description. The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in...

3) Blankets

Author

Thompson, Craig

4) Can't we talk about something more pleasant?: a memoir

Author

Chast, Roz

Formats:

Book, Graphic Novel

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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...

5) Dancing at the pity party: a dead mom graphic memoir

Author

Feder, Tyler

Formats:

eAudiobook, Graphic Novel

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Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life—from her mom's first oncology appointment to her funeral and shiva week through the beginning of facing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares...

6) El Deafo

Author

Bell, Cece

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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#1 New York Times Bestseller!
Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series!
Winner, John Newbery Medal
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What does it take for a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid to become a superhero!!?!?
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Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Ceceâs class was deaf. Here, sheâs different. Sheâs...

7) Fun home: a family tragicomic

Author

Bechdel, Alison

Formats:

Book, Graphic Novel

8) Gender Queer: A Memoir

Author

Kobabe, Maia

Formats:

eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, RCC New - Book

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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...

9) Good talk: a memoir in conversations

Author

Jacob, Mira

Formats:

Book, Graphic Novel

10) Grass

Author

Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk

11) Guts

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile

Formats:

Book - Paperback, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...

12) Hey, kiddo

Author

Krosoczka, Jarrett

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Publisher Annotation: In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought...

13) Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened

Author

Brosh, Allie

Formats:

Book, Book - Hardback, Graphic Novel

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Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

14) Kid gloves: nine months of careful chaos

Author

Knisley, Lucy

15) Lighter Than My Shadow

Author

Green, Katie

Series

Lighter Than My Shadow

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A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse, and recovery. Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life, a set of circumstances can collide, and normal behavior can soon shade into something sinister, something deadly. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip...

16) marbles mania depression michelangelo

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17) March, Book One

Author

Lewis, John

Series

March volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.Now, to share his remarkable story with

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18) March: Book Three

Author

Lewis, John

Series

March volume 3

Formats:

eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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By Fall 1963, the Civil Rights Movement is an undeniable keystone of the national conversation, and as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is right in the thick of it. With the stakes continuing to rise, white supremacists intensify their opposition through government obstruction and civilian terrorist attacks, a supportive president is assassinated, and African-Americans across the South are still blatantly prohibited

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19) March, Book Two

Author

Lewis, John

Series

March volume 2

Formats:

eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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After the success of the Nashville sit-in movement, John Lewis' commitment to change through nonviolence is stronger than ever — but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place their lives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear

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20) maus i a survivors tale my father bleeds history

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