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Graphically Speaking for Adults

New graphic novels for adults are coming in all the time. Be sure to give them a read!

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  • Invincible

    Ultimate Collection. Vol. 1

    Kirkman, Robert
    Now a hit animated series on Prime Video. Start here with a massive hardcover collecting the first 13 issues of the greatest superhero comic in the universe, from visionary creator Robert Kirkman, along with acclaimed artists Cory Walker and Ryan…
    Graphic Novel, 2008Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2008 — GRAPHIC NOVEL KIRKMAN
  • On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningrad is interrupted by a gunshot, and an ex-state prisoner is arrested. At the police station, the mysterious gunman recalls the early summer of 1941 when the German army begins its invasion…
    Graphic Novel, 2022Annapolis, MD : Dead Reckoning, [2022] — GRAPHIC NOVEL RIJCKEGHEM
  • Emily Carrington's memoir of the legacy of the violence a family friend who sexually abused her in her youth wreaks on her life, and the power of telling your own story, your way.
    Graphic Novel, 2022Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly, 2022 — GRAPHIC NOVEL CARRINGTON
  • Elise is middle aged and satisfied in her marriage with her husband when she meets Dagmar. What ensues is an affair that unsettles her whole life. A portrait of middle-age relationships and sexuality.
    Graphic Novel, 2022[Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2022 — GRAPHIC NOVEL FURMARK
  • Gym teacher Tsuji-sensei has one mission: help with Japan's terrible modern sex education standards. The problem is, her students barely know their birds from their bees. Between a girl who already has a girlfriend, a hard-core BL lover, and a girl…
    Graphic Novel, 2021–New York : Yen Press, 2021- — GRAPHIC NOVEL TATAKI
  • Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him. Ryohei feels like everything would be better if…
    Graphic Novel, 2022San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, [2022] — GRAPHIC NOVEL ASO
  • Rorschach

    Issues #1-12

    King, Tom
    Rorschach is back. Whoever he is. It's been 35 years since Ozymandias dropped a giant interdimensional squid on New York City, killing thousands and destroying the public's trust in heroes once and for all. And since that time, one figure in a…
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2021DC Comics, 2021
  • It's 1976, and this is the concluding chapter of the Eisner Award-winning "American Vampire". America is broken. Trust between the government and the American public has crumbled. Paranoia reigns supreme. Skinner Sweet has exhausted all efforts to…
    Graphic Novel, 2021Burbank, CA : DC Black Label, [2021] — GRAPHIC NOVEL SNYDER
  • Following Edison Hark, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, "The Good Asian" is a Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban as they're…
    Graphic Novel, 2021–Portland, OR : Image Comics, 2021- — GRAPHIC NOVEL PICHETSHOTE
  • Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme. Their world is turned upside down when the…
    Graphic Novel, 2022Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2022 — GRAPHIC NOVEL CHRISTMAS
  • Welcome to the All-Nighter, the only diner in town where you can get coffee and a meal from sunset to sunrise. The staff are friendly (kind of) and happy to serve you (sometimes), and it would never cross their minds to drink their customers' blood.…
    Graphic Novel, 2022Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2022 — GRAPHIC NOVEL ZDARSKY
  • Getting a girlfriend is easy, according to Richard. All you need is papier mache, string, soft material, a balloon, some old-fashioned bellows, and a good pair of scissors. The difficult bit is keeping her secret. This darkly funny story of…
    Graphic Novel, 2013Brighton, England : Myriad Editions, 2013 — GRAPHIC NOVEL BROOKES