This year’s nominees in both the Best Publication for Kids (9-12) and the Best Publication for Teens (13-17) include a wealth of great titles by women, all of which are well worth checking out. For more college adventures, but with a superhero twist, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, which was nominated for Best New Series, follows Doreen Green as she tries to balance her life as a secret superhero with college life. The irreverent and off-beat stories are hugely entertaining and have so far been collected in two volumes. This one also qualifies for the currently ongoing 2016 Hub Challenge, so check it out now if you are participating!Īlso nominated in the Best Continuing Series category is Giant Days by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin, a series that follows a group of friends through their lives at college.
Two volumes are currently available, Presto! (which was on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels 2014 list) and Stealers Keepers! Also on the list for a second year in a row is Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona, which is nominated in the Best Graphic Album-Reprint. This is an extremely fun series that follows a thief with a heart of gold on her adventures. Rather than try to talk about all of these great comics, this post focuses on the nominees that will have the greatest appeal among teens and other fans of young adult literature.īandette by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover has once again earned a double nomination in both Best Digital/Webcomic and Best Continuing Series. So many, in fact, that there are too many for a single post. It’s that time of year again! The 2016 Eisner Award nominations have been announced and the list includes a ton of great female creators. Smoker, Marika McCoola, Mariko Tamaki, Melanie Gillman, Molly Knox Ostertag, Natalie Peeterse, selected lists Women in Comics – Monsters, Ghosts, and the Supernatural Continue reading Great Graphic Novels (#GGN2023) Featured Review of Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman Posted on NovemOctoAuthor Great Graphic Novels for Teens Categories Awards and Selected Lists Tags Aatmaja Pandya, Amancay Nahuelpan, Ariel Slamet Ries, Caspar Wijngaard, Dale Deforest, Dan Watters, GGN2023, great graphic novels for teens, Jason Shiga, M.L.
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales presents seven original fairy tales where the traditional happy endings of marriage and wealth are subverted for endings that focus on all types of love. Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie GillmanĪ queen who has everything wants to win the heart of a goose girl a woman falls in love with a mermaid and will have her heart fed to the mermaid’s children after one year and another woman seeks a mishap from a mysterious being to get out of her arranged marriage.
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