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Straight Outta Busan is a short graphic novel memoir where Stefano Jun chronicles his childhood after moving from Busan to Calgary and later Edmonton. In a collection of short slice-of-life comics, Jun explores the frustrations … [Click to Read More]
By Stefano Jun (Author), Stefano Jun (Illustrator)
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Rather than presenting a single storyline or concept of love, Alberta Comics: Love is a mosaic of loves, including youthful crushes, familial love, the love of a pet, and epic romantic loves. Each of the … [Click to Read More]
By Alexander Finbow (Editor), Shea Proulx (Editor), Hartley Rose (Editor), Emily Pomeroy (Editor)
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The Last Band on Earth follows The Dead Layaways, made up of Nat and her bandmates, who live in a dystopian world where demonic entities control opportunity and success. The narrative primarily follows the band … [Click to Read More]
By Elaine M. Will (Author), Elaine M. Will (Illustrator)
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Lily, the third book in Kat Simmers and Ryan Danny Owen’s Pass Me By trilogy, follows 17-year-old Lily, a trans teenager, as she reconnects with her estranged grandfather, who’s adjusting to his own experiences with … [Click to Read More]
By Kat Simmers (Author), Ryan Danny Owen (Author), Kat Simmers (Illustrator)
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Roth by Richard Van Camp is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells a tense survival story of four Indigenous men trying to survive after being abandoned in the forest. They stumble upon a strange … [Click to Read More]
By Richard Van Camp (Author), Christopher Shy (Illustrator)
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Concluding the trilogy, Blood and Fire revisits Mordecai Crow’s post-apocalyptic world, where he must face secrets of his past while surviving the chaos of a world without technology. Slavin explores the early days of the … [Click to Read More]
By Bill Slavin (Author), Bill Slavin (Illustrator)
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In Piat koloskiv – П’ять колосків (the Ukrainian-language edition of Five Stalks of Grain), Nadia and Taras face hardship, loss, and grief as they try to survive the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine. This graphic novel … [Click to Read More]
By Adrian Lysenko (Author), Ivanka Theodosia Galadza (Illustrator), Elina Neroevska-Veles (Translator)
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King Warrior is the story of a young hero trying to find his path forward while struggling with family relationships. Set in parallel universes, this tale incorporates cultural aspects from northern Canada, Somalia, and Finland, … [Click to Read More]
By Jay Bulckaert (Author), Erika Nyyssenon (Author), Lucas Green (Illustrator)
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Quid Pro Crow follows Slavin’s Secrets of Jarrow in a thought-provoking addition to the post-apocalyptic genre. For educators, it offers rich material for classroom discussions. The graphic novel delves into the consequences of a world … [Click to Read More]
By Bill Slavin (Author), Bill Slavin (Illustrator)
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Alberta Comics: Home is an anthology of short comic stories that are quintessentially Albertan and reflect the province’s diverse population and society. The stories vary in art style, genre, and tone, so this collection is … [Click to Read More]
By Alexander Finbow (Editor), Shea Proulx (Editor), Emily Pomeroy (Editor)
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- English Language Arts
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In this grim take on a speculative future, Slavin touches on many contemporary issues, such as resource inequality, group identity, and justice. The way the narrative frames how the archivists in this tale look at … [Click to Read More]
By Bill Slavin (Author)
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Book two of the Pass Me By series, Electric Vice, focuses on Ed’s history in the 1970s glam rock scene. While the characters are fictional, the evoked feelings of adoration, fear, and exhilaration of following … [Click to Read More]
By Kat Simmers (Author), Ryan Danny Owen (Author), Kat Simmers (Illustrator)
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Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’ is about Ed, an older resident of a northern Canadian town who is struggling with his recent dementia diagnosis. Gone Fishin’ is the first in a five-book series that tells … [Click to Read More]
By Kat Simmers (Author), Ryan Danny Owen (Author), Kat Simmers (Illustrator)
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Frank is a fictional murder mystery set around the historical 1903 landslide in Frank, Alberta, that killed more than 100 people. Despite its historical setting, the language used is accessible to modern readers, and with … [Click to Read More]
By Ben Rankel (Author)
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In Five Stalks of Grain, Nadia and Taras face hardship, loss, and grief as they try to survive the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine. This graphic novel shows the moral struggles faced even by children, in … [Click to Read More]
By Adrian Lysenko (Author), Ivanka Theodosia Galadza (Illustrator)