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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brand-new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the internationally bestselling author and illustrator of the Dog Man and Captain Underpants series. In Cat Kid Comic Club, Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence."--Provided...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 86 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Comic Book Confidential is a feature-length documentary that profiles twenty-two of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and strip-art in North America today. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and state-of-the-art animation techniques, Comic Book Confidential provides a positive answer to that burning existential question of the late twentieth century first posed...
6) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. Nancy is hailed...
Author
Series
Monstrous volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : chiefly 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.
"Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these...
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...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
173 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Bienvenidos al Club de Cómics de Supergatito, donde Aleta, Moni y yo, Peque Pedrito (PP), introducimos a veintiún bebés rana revoltosos, graciosos y talentos al arte de hacer cómics. A medida que la historia se desarrolle con sus contratiempos y situaciones chistosas, los lectores podrán ver el avance, los errores y las mejoras que acompañan a la práctica y a la perseverancia. Los lectores de todas las edades se inspirarán para soñar sus...
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