Author: Eileen Gonzalez

As newlyweds, Yehuda and Maya Devir started to chronicle their everyday adventures in a webcomic. Their honest, energetic, fun comics are now collected in One of Those Days, which anyone who has ever been in a relationship, had a child, or just tried to manage life in their own apartment can relate to!

Mia is both Muscogee and Jewish, but lately, she has been struggling with how she fits into each of those identities. That’s especially true now that her remarried mother refuses to talk about Mia’s Muscogee father, who has moved back to Oklahoma. Trying to reconnect, Mia decides to sneak away to Oklahoma and explore the parts of her identity she still wonders about.

Well, duh. If you haven’t already started this long-running series about Monkey D. Luffy’s seemingly endless quest for the treasure known as One Piece, it’s not too late to jump in, but expect to stay a while: as of this writing, there are over one hundred volumes to immerse yourself in!

If you want a slightly shorter piratical adventure, try this adaptation of the children’s book of the same name. Junior time travelers Jack and Annie find themselves captured by a pirate captain who is convinced that they know where his treasure is — and won’t let them go until he gets it!

Pedro is less than thrilled when he finds out his abuelito is going to come up from Mexico to live with his family — not because he doesn’t love his grandfather, but because he already has to share a house with eight siblings! But the more time Pedro spends with his abuelito, the happier he is that he got the chance to bond with him.

Orla’s grandmother, Mamo, was a powerful hedge witch, but Orla has no interest in following in her magical footsteps. After Mamo’s death, however, things start going wrong, and Orla is the only one who can fix them. Can she handle it? And will she have to give up her own ambitions to take her grandmother’s place in Haresden?

Kaepernick rose to fame (or infamy) on the football field by kneeling in protest against police brutality. But before all that, he was a high school athlete learning how to make the right decisions for him, no matter what anyone else thinks.

As a stubborn seventh-grader, Misty decides to join the school football team and prove she’s just as good a player as any of the boys. But the boys don’t want her there, the girls don’t understand why she would want to play football, and training is seriously tough. Can Misty stick it out and prove herself to everyone, including herself?

To earn money for a concert she wants to see, privileged Hazel takes a job clearing ivy from a local forest, not realizing that most of the kids she’ll be working with are far poorer and have had much fewer opportunities than she has. Hazel’s ordinary summer job soon turns into a profound lesson about class, race, and lingering inequality in a seemingly liberal community.

The first in a series, this widely acclaimed graphic novel follows Jordan, an artistic seventh grader who finds himself way out of his depth at an exclusive school filled mainly with white kids. Feeling adrift at both home and school, Jordan will have to find a way to make space for himself as he is, without sacrificing the things he loves.

Is there any dish as versatile — and as delicious — as dumplings? Amano, a professional chef, walks you through all the different kinds of dumplings out there and teaches you how to make your very own. Also check out Let’s Make Ramen!

Food has always played a prominent role in Knisley’s life, and so it only makes sense for food to play a starring part in her memoir as well. This comic reviews her life through the foods and recipes that made it so memorable — and it includes those recipes for your personal enjoyment as well.

Ed is a scribe to the aristocratic Lucardo. He is also mortal and well past middle-aged, while Lucardo is eternally young. Despite their many differences, when Lucardo confesses his love for the older man, sparks fly very quickly.

Developing a crush on someone higher up the corporate food chain is, well, not ideal, but Yiyoung can’t seem to help himself. When he and the handsome Director Kang take that next step, things inevitably get even more complicated for the both of them.

TW for dubious consent

Isabel is a privileged girl growing up in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But her safe and comfortable life comes to an end when Isabel enters another dimension, one where war threatens both that alternate city and her own. Can she and her new friends find a way to stop the fighting in time?

Nina might just be the strangest transfer student in history: not only did she transfer from another dimension, she is also an aspiring witch! Her new friend Ayu would be fine with all that, if only Nina’s half-baked spells didn’t keep embarrassing her in front of everybody, including the boy she has a crush on…

Primo thought his best days were behind him when he — and his two kids — find themselves on the hunt for a dangerous weapon. Can this most unusual family stand up against everyone else who wants the weapon for their own, less-than-honorable reasons?

In this adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel, Meg, her brother, and her friend go in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who vanished while working on something called a tesseract. With unforgettable characters and a timeless plot, A Wrinkle in Time is worth exploring in both prose and graphic novel form.

Dana’s ordinary existence in the 1970s abruptly ends when she finds herself living out the life her ancestors lived as enslaved people in the antebellum South. Can she find a way home, or has she become too entangled in the past to ever return from it for good?

We all know that old chestnut about learning from history or being doomed to repeat it. This graphic edition of Snyder’s book gives practical advice on how to learn from some of the worst events in recent history — and how you can do your part to prevent them from recurring.