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1) The flamingo
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingoes. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.
2) Crushing
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This quiet, wordless book is artist and author Sophie Burrows’ graphic-novel debut. A young woman, pale and rosy-cheeked with a straight black bob, lives alone in London--except for her cat--surrounded by lovers on Hampstead Heath and crowds on the Tube. One night she runs down to the local kebab and pizza shop in her pajamas and encounters a young man, pale and freckled with floppy red hair, also wearing pajamas. Unfortunately, they don't...
3) Viewfinder
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada, Limited
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"After visiting Earth on a whim, a young space traveler finds a planet empty of people. She happens upon a strange contraption that shows her images of what the planet used to be like, and through this viewfinder, we see Earth as it was juxtaposed against Earth as it is: abandoned by people, but still full of amazing things. A wordless adventure with a subtle message about stewardship."--
5) Rose wolves
Author
Series
Rose wolves volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"One day, a little girl picks an unusual flower from an unusual bush in the forest. Overnight, the flower blooms and turns into a magical creature: a rose wolf, missing a leg just like she is missing an arm. Together, the new friends must go on a journey to find where they belong." --
6) Alien nation
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A wordless story that depicts a subway ride filled with cell-phone-using aliens. Presented in comic book format.
7) The arrival
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, The Gull Yettin’s story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world, using it to...
Author
Publisher
ETCH/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Churro is a bunny with a big imagination. And sometimes, it gets Churro in trouble. After missing the school bus one day, Churro discovers a magic wand that a magician left behind. Now Churro's bad day just got a little more fun. But not for everyone in town! With the help of new friends, Churro must learn to use creativity and the magician's wand to help fix the town's magical new problems. Filled with colorful illustrations and featuring the hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Peek through the leaves, beyond the clouded mountains, and you will find a garden with a strange attendant and an even stranger purpose. A young mage, asleep in a meadow, wakes to delights and fanciful spells that open a door to unknown wonder. Then, they eagerly step through to find only horror and death. There is no swashbuckling adventure in store; this world means them cold and deadly harm, and they'll need all their resilience, wit, and magic...
11) Small things
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Description
An empowering wordless graphic picture book that gets to the heart of a young boy's anxiety and opens the way for dialogue about acceptance, vulnerability, and the universal experience of worry.
Author
Series
Alberto Breccia library volume 4
Publisher
Fantagraphic Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this wordless, full-color collection of satiric short comics stories, an internationally acclaimed cartoonist chronicles the waning days of the most famous vampire of them all. Alberto Breccia's Dracula' is composed of a series of brutally funny satirical misadventures starring the hapless eponymous antihero. Literally defanged (a humiliating trip to the dentist doesn't help), the protagonist's glory days are long behind him and other, more sinister...
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by five great twentieth century woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today. Frans Masereel (1899-1972) was born in Belgium and is considered the father of the wordless graphic novel. Graphic Witness includes the first reprint of his classic work The Passion of a...
15) The fly
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"One of the world's greatest cartoonists, Lewis Trondheim, tells the exciting life story of a common housefly. From the fly's birth to his inevitable end, we see everything this creature goes through simply to survive... from the fly's perspective. We guarantee you've never looked at your kitchen the way the fly does. While there's plenty of humor, there's thrills and chills as well, especially when the fly meets a spider. You may never have liked...
16) The forest
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing...
18) Inside the box!
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
There are adventures inside for every box and around every corner for Cat and Rabbit. Where will they go next?
19) Helem
Author
Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemption. A woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. Helem relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
There is a girl. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a Guardian. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls. Together they walk across an extraordinary fantasy world. If they leave the path, the air itself comes alive, forcing them onwards. Why? The girl doesn't know, but there's worse than beasts and bandits ahead. Civilization, with its temptations and treacheries, will test their bond beyond its limits.
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