YA Comics and Graphic Novels Releasing October-December 2022

Izzy Crane is newly arrived in Sleepy Hollow, NY and she’s a skeptic of the whole Headless Horseman legend, despite her family’s connection to the story. But then her life takes a turn for the spooky when she meets Vicky Van Tassel and Croc Byun, and the three start seeing the Horseman everywhere. It seems he has it in for Vicky, and it’s going to take all of Izzy’s courage and grit to help save her…and not fall for her at the same time!

Kindra was a student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon in 2015 when a campus shooting devastated the sense of security she felt on campus and shattered her life. As she mourned the loss of classmates and a professor, she found her healing process continually set back by news of more and more mass shootings in Florida and Las Vegas, in an onslaught of terrible news that never seemed to end. How does anyone heal or learn to cope when we as a society have become numb to the reality of mass shootings?

Growing up in a predominantly white suburb of New Jersey, Liz Montague learned from a young age the difficulties of navigating a world that doesn’t always reflect her own experiences and visions. She turned to art as an outlet and a way to help process a dyslexia diagnosis. When she was a senior in college, she wrote to The New Yorker and asked for them to publish more inclusive comics…and when asked for recommendations, she submitted her own work. This is an inspiring and thoughtful memoir about discovery, finding your way, and making your own opportunities.

For the Heartstopper mega fans: Here is The Heartstopper Yearbook, a book full of never-before-seen illustrations, a mini comic, character profiles, and a behind-the-scenes look at Alice Oseman’s process. This is the perfect addition to your Heartstopper collection, and it rounds out the world of Charlie and Nick perfectly!

Hannah is away at her first year of college when all of the stress and isolation from her family sends her into a nervous breakdown. She gets the help she needs and makes it to campus mental health, where she’s prescribed therapy and medication, but those meds come with an interesting array of side effects. One med gives her super strength, but she gets constipation. Another gives her telepathy, but then she can’t sleep. And then there’s the super tough side effect that comes with weight gain. As Hannah uses her newfound side effect powers for good and tries to work up the courage to ask out a cute girl, she has to contend with what it means to truly “get better” and the true definition of what it means to be well.

Althalia is the last of her kind, a bruja who must keep the old ways and stories safe from the passage of time and erasure from those who’d rather defeat and domineer her people. Luckily for her, she works in a magical museum with two great friends — a Chupacabra and were-coyote. But when an encounter with a priest brings the weight of centuries of religious oppression down on Althalia, she realizes that her status as the last bruja is more important than ever…and the church will stop at nothing to destroy her.

Based on the hit Webtoons comic from South Korea, this book collects the first volume of True Beauty in its first print format in North America! Jugyeong Lim has always been perceived as the ugly one in her family and social circles, but when she turns to online makeup tutorials and launches her own channel, she finds fame and popularity and even romance for the first time, but she’s caught between two boys and two very different worlds. Who is she really when no one is watching? And can she ever reconcile the girl she once was with who she is now?

Tommie Smith is a 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist, but he’s perhaps better known for raising a fist on the Olympic podium along with John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, in Mexico City. That act of protest, which was meant to draw attention to the treatment of Black Americans and racial inequity, became one of the most hotly debated moments in Olympics history, and resulted in Smith and Carlos being forced to leave. In this moving graphic memoir, Smith recounts his upbringing in rural Texas, his journey to the Olympics, and the decisions influencing his protest.