Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators
Celebrate Pride Month with this list of Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators authors and/or artists. Annotations adapted from the publisher's description unless otherwise noted. (Updated May 2022)
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Our Colors
A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the breakout hit My Brother's Husband.
Format: Book
Availability: No Longer Available
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They Called Us Enemy
A recounting of actor/activist George Takei's early childhood experience being imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Kimiko Does Cancer
At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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We're Still Here
Dozens of new stories that render trans experiences in comics form: some fiction, some nonfiction, some sad, some thoughtful, some funny, some bizarre, all authentic.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Our Wretched Town Hall
Eric Kostiuk Williams returns with a new, full-color short story collection that will replenish your crops, singe your eyebrows, and lightly tickle the back of your knees.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Cannonball
Wroten (Crimes) skillfully explores youth, ego, and the doomed pursuit of artistic purity. -- Publishers Weekly
Format: Book
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Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid
Inspired by the creator's own experiences as a queer, China-born illustrator living in the United States, Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid has an undeniable memoir quality to its recollection and thought-provoking accounts of what it's like to navigate the complexities of seeking belonging-mentally and geographically.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The Contradictions
Sophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Taproot
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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A Thing Called Truth
A workaholic scientist who wanted to save the world and a woman who fears nothing except discovering her own destiny find themselves mixed up in a chaotic on-the-road adventure through Europe together.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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