Graphic Novel & Comic Book
Graphic novels and comic books use sequential art to tell either a stand-alone or serialized story.
Works are alphabetized by author. Genres are listed beside works. For details about a specific work, refer to author’s Substack. The Library is not responsible for content on individual authors’ Substacks.
(GN) Graphic Novel / (CB) Comic Book
(C) Complete / (I) Serial In Progress
(F) Free / ($) Paid / (F)→($) Preview Available
This Memoir Will Be Written By Robots | Carolyn Cohagan | Speculative, Memoir, Humor | (GN) (I) (F)
This serial graphic novel is Carolyn Cohagan’s (ridiculous yet plausible) imagined memoir from the year 2028 exploring what our worlds might become with the onslaught of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The story follows the future Carolyn Cohagan as she struggles with being an artist while AI is creating all of the content people want to consume. The novel is comprised of prose written by the real Carolyn Cohagan and images created by a mixture of AI and Photoshop. She is creating this graphic novel in real time each week as a way to track the progress of AI. You will see the advancements in sophistication and intelligence in her Substack first hand.“Bingeworthy…I stop what I’m doing every time this new Substack drops and devour it. Utterly ingenious and crackling with wit and poignancy.” —May Cobb, best-selling author of The Hunting Wives and My Summer Darlings. “ . . . one of those rare artistic projects that is both an inspired concept and continually inspiring in its execution, too. I eagerly read each newsletter as soon as it hits my inbox!” —Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas.
Janus and the Infernal Pit | Abrian Curington | Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
Receiving the burden of an old god’s power isn’t considered a pleasant gift. Marjam, the most recent recipient of the ancient god Janus’ powers, is just happy the power didn't fracture her personality into a million pieces, as is its unique risk. Now, her training complete, she just wants to get back home and resume her (somewhat) normal, teenage life. She only got a few of Janus' powers anyway, for all that risk. When she is lured and entrapped into Tartarus – The Prison of Wicked Souls soon after returning home, her meager power isn't even enough to get her back out. There is one thing she could do, to save herself and the others trapped in the Infernal Pit, but it would require confronting the deeds she's done and acknowledging the person she's become… she'd very much rather not. It is a tale of letting go of who you were, in order to accept the person that you have become, and will grow to be. Technically a Modern Fantasy tale, it is both literary and comedic, fusing ancient history with the modern lives of multifaceted characters (some more literally multifaceted than others), presented with a clean, clear look.
Black Market Heroine | Russell Nohelty | Fantasy | (CB) (C) ($)
Ollie wasn’t looking for trouble, but after she saved the Antichrist from being slaughtered, it came for her. Ollie lived by one rule. Never get involved with anyone for any reason; humans, demons, fae folk, it didn’t matter. They were all trouble. Keeping her distance was how she survived in the criminal underworld for so long. Keep your head down and don’t piss anyone off. That was her motto, especially since her clients all had access to powerful dark magic. She thought she had a flawless system for keeping her nose clean, so how did she wind up in a stolen car, with a demon spawn in her back seat, driving away from her ex-lover and a gang of demons ready to skin her alive? And why did she agree to help save the demon girl’s life so she didn’t get sacrificed to open the gates of hell? Ollie had one rule. One stupid rule. And tonight it goes right down the toilet. Now, the only way for Ollie to get her life back is to save the girl, prevent the apocalypse, and track down the jerk who betrayed her. They will pay. Oh yes, they will all pay.
Gherkin Boy and the Dollar of Destiny | Russell Nohelty | Science Fiction, Comedy | (GN) (C) ($)
An absurdist comedy graphic novel about a pickle that falls into a black hole and has to travel across the universe to get back home.
How Not To Invade Earth | Russell Nohelty | Science Fiction, Comedy | (GN) (C) ($)
How NOT to Invade Earth is an absurdist comedy about an alien that blows up the moon and gets Venus and Earth involved in an interplanetary war.
Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter | Russell Nohelty | Fantasy | (CB) (C) ($)
Ichabod is a mental patient who has been convicted of killing many innocent people, but when he awakens in the Apocalypse he may just be the best hope for humanity to survive. If only he knew whether the Hell beasts he slaughtered were real or existed only in his mind. Can Ichabod become the hero the world needs even after society decided they didn’t need him? Or will he devolve into the animal people always accused him of being? Enter the madness and find out.
Katrina Hates the Dead | Russell Nohelty | Fantasy | (CB) (C) ($)
What would you do during the Apocalypse? How would you survive? Those are the questions that have plagued Katrina for years. All the good boys and girls were raptured up to Heaven, leaving the rest of humanity to ask a single, solitary question: “Why not me?” Hellspawn rose from Hell and rampaged across the world, eviscerating all they came across. It was bedlam, Hell on Earth. There was nothing anybody could do to stop it. Then the Hellspawn got bored and settled for a quiet life in the suburbs. They squatted in the homes of the people they once mercilessly murdered. And yet humanity is strong. They persist. But everything has a breaking point, and after watching friend after friend dies at the unforgiving and unjust hands of fate, Katrina’s had enough and sets out to face off with the Devil to earn back her old life.
Pixie Dust | Russell Nohelty | Fantasy | (CB) (C) ($)
Akta is the greatest monster hunter in all of King Odgeir’s kingdom. She’s smart, fast…oh and she’s also a pixie, a magical race that can disappear and reappear at will using magical pixie dust. King Odgeir is obsessed with using Akta’s pixie dust to create a race of super soldiers, but Akta refuses to give it up, so King Odgeir poisons Akta and takes it for himself. Akta, however, vows revenge and makes a deal with Velaska, the queen of the underworld, so she can return to Earth and seek revenge on the king that killed her. The only problem is that time moves differently on Earth than in Hell, and when she returns to Earth her body has been decomposing for a week. Now, she must kill the king before her body falls apart, or risk spending eternity in Hell.
Because Raisins | Joan Rowell | Humor (CB) (I) (F)
"Because Raisins" is a growing collection of slightly spooky comic strips. The comics are drawn in Procreate by an illustrator who loves the horror genre. They feature ghosts, monsters, witches, and werewolves — but they are intended to be funny rather than scary. (Please note that these comics contain instances of adult language.)
Urban Yogini: A Superhero Who Can't Use Violence. Vol I: The New Face of Terror | Bretigne Shaffer, artists Santi Biondolillo and Elijah Espada (GN) (C) (F)
Graphic novel about a young woman who is transformed into a superhero who is bound by the law of Ahimsa, and takes on the police state.