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Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Laura drops Freddie, picks the relationship back up, drops her over and over. Freddie can’t seem to help herself - can she find herself?
Uproarious, pithy, graphic novel biographies of thirty women (well, a couple of those thirty are clusters of sisters—like The Shaggs. Their father insisted his daughters become rock stars. They didn’t want to. They weren’t successful, but decades later they’re lauded for their raw sound). From the fourth century through a young Afghan rapper of today, of many races and ethnicities women have been conquering the world. Wow!
From the competitive world of ice-skating replete with glittery costumes, lots of make-up, and, well, loads of competition, Tillie Walden shows and tells us her life in graphic novel form with wonderfully under-done drawings that only a skater/artist could render. Tillie comes of age and comes out as a lesbian in this honest beautifully told memoir. And she’s only twenty-one.
Written by US Congressman, John Lewis, of Georgia and his staff member and comic oficionado Andrew Aydin, this is the John Lewis’s coming of age story during the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Illustrator Nate Powell helps flesh out Dr. Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the hope and scorn of an era.
