Author: Eileen Gonzalez

If you struggle with anxiety and catastrophizing, you can certainly sympathize with Tung, who has dealt with these issues for years. But it’s not all doom and gloom: above all, Tung’s graphic memoir shows that recovery is possible, and the dark days won’t last forever.

If you only know about post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers from the media, you’ve probably got the wrong idea. In this book, you’ll meet real-life ex-soldiers of many races and genders. Each one struggles with their wartime experiences and with reintegrating into “normal” life.

Aiden is definitely not gay. So what if he can’t stop thinking about that cute guy Elias? Being gay is definitely not okay when you’re a teenage boy in 1995, and it’s the last thing Aiden wants to be. But as his time at summer camp draws to a close, he will be forced to find peace with who he really is, no matter how uncomfortable the truth makes him.

It’s 1994, and Elodie has one summer left before going to college. The last thing she wants to do is spend her time as a camp counselor, but her mother insists. Now, Elodie will have to wrestle (perhaps literally) with a bunch of children, not to mention her friendship with fellow counselor Catherine and a forest spirit that may pose a danger to the entire camp.

Who knew that mischief-making Norse gods could be so adorable? After making a mess of Asgard, Thor and Loki are tasked with cleaning up the place. When they try to use Loki’s magic to make the work go faster, they end up falling into a parallel world — and meeting another Thor and another Loki!

Will Holloman has just lost his older brother to gun violence. Lacking healthy coping mechanisms to deal with such a tragedy, he decides that he will find the shooter and exact his own brand of revenge. But will more violence really bring Will the catharsis he needs? Or will he end up facing the same fate as his brother?

Based on the prose novel, this comic stars Helen, a private eye. Working in the 1970s, she takes on a blackmail case for a popular female singer. But what happens when Helen does the one thing she’s not supposed to and falls in love with her client just as things get especially dangerous?

Honestly one of my all-time faves. Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of two fish out of water: Roberta, a Chinese American girl dealing with racism and a pesky older brother, and Superman, who worries that he is too alien to fit in here on Earth. Both must learn to be themselves if they are to succeed in “smashing the Klan!”

Like a lot of kids, Yukio is shy and not sure of what he wants to do with is life. That’s before he meets Ryusuke, an older boy who sparks something in the shiftless Yukio: the desire to make it big as a rock musician. Can they work together to succeed at such an impossible dream?

Sure, we all know the lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody” off the top of our heads, but how much do you know about Queen as a band? This biographical comic starts from their humble beginnings and takes you all the way through their illustrious, inimitable career.

Priyanka has so many questions about her mother’s life — but her mother won’t answer a single one of them. It’s not until Pri finds a magic pashmina that transports her to her mother’s home country, India, that she starts to learn about her family history. Can Pri’s magical investigation bring her closer to her secretive mom?

Having tough conversations is a vital part of being a mother. Here, Mira recounts the discussions she had with her own young son — and the discussions her parents once had with her — about everything from falling in love to dealing with racism close to home.

Like everyone else, Gigi adores the Lovely Trio, superheroes dedicated to protecting the world from monsters. Or are they? When Gigi learns that the Lovely Trio may not be who they say they are, she will have to battle the heroes themselves to really save the world.

This reimagining of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo sets the action two hundred years in the future, in a world decimated by climate change. But you should still recognize the basics of the tale: a man who was betrayed and wrongfully imprisoned for decades — and who later takes his vengeance.

Everyone’s favorite non-Harrison-Ford archaeologist returns to hunt down the Rings of Vaale, a cursed and most elusive artifact. She seeks out a seasoned crew of treasure hunters to help her on her quest, but they aren’t the only ones after the Rings, of course…

We all remember when Darth Vader, iconic villain and Galaxy’s Worst Dad Award winner, tried to tempt Luke to the Dark Side — and Luke preferred to take a swan dive than to accept. How did Vader take that, exactly? He probably should have gone to therapy, but we all know that’s not how it went down, don’t we?

The year is 1885. Mei is a young Chinese girl working at a logging camp in the western United States. Life there is difficult for many reasons, but she has one lifeline: the stories she creates about Po Pan Yin, her own version of Paul Bunyan. It’s a heartwarming comic about how we use stories to define, reinvent, and comfort ourselves.

In this touching yet devastating graphic memoir, Bui tells the story of how she and her family escaped South Vietnam and resettled in the U.S. Her feelings about her turbulent past change over the years, especially when she herself becomes a mother and realizes what her own parents went through to keep the family safe.

Before creating her classic, meme-worthy comic Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton worked in Alberta, Canada — specifically, in Alberta’s oil sands, where a select few make a fortune at the expense of the environment and the people. The work exposed Beaton to the beauty of the world — and to the hypocrisy of those who only pay lip service to wanting to protect it.

This epic-length manga comes in an epic-sized box set that includes the entire story of Princess Nausicaä, who must save her village, which has already suffered environmental degradation, from a new threat. If you’ve only seen the film adaptation, now is your chance to read where it all began!