![]() Visaggio pairs up with fellow queer comics indie starlet St-Onge to spice up an eighth-grade friendship triangle with ghosts and demon summoning. Hale (the Hazardous Tales series) turns from true histories to truly ridiculous prehistoric antics with this buddy story of a trilobite and an ambulatory whale who angle to make it big online. Random House Graphic, May 2 ($13.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-2-8)Īddie’s not out to make friends when her dad’s summer gig drags her across the country-, but when Mateo invites her to play with a virtual reality headset, her mind opens. There couldn’t be a more winning combo for young comics fans (and hipster parents). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 30 ($14.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-2-9)Įisner winner Walden draws indie-pop-darling twins Tegan and Sara’s tales of their tweens. Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden. ![]() Set in 1975 Indiana, Tavares’s debut dramatizes through the story of an underfunded girls’ basketball team the fight for equity in school sports that resulted in Title IX. 28 ($14.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-4-8)Ĭaldecott Medalist Santat gets into the graphic memoir game, recalling his junior high class trip to Europe, where he gets teased but meets the delights of a new world. Rodriguez’s debut follows a Dominican eighth grader who applies to join Fame (aka New York City’s La Guardia High School) and navigates the high-stakes admissions process against her mom’s wishes. ![]() This spring sees the debut graphic memoir from picture book star Dan Santat, the return of phenoms Jerry Craft and Nathan Hale, and a diverse bevy of up-and-comers, such as Stephanie Rodriguez, for young readers to discover. ![]()
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