"A graphic adaptation of the bestselling book about what most American history textbooks get wrong"--

Covers, interior pages, and panel enlargements help to capture the fun and excitement that have made comic books a publishing phenomenon since the early 1930s. Illuminating essays provide added insight into the comic book industry's most notable creative personalities, favourite characters, and ususual types of comics.

Eleven-year-old Darcy just moved to a new country. She's feeling lost and misses her friends back home. That's when she stumbles upon a shop full of mysterious glowing jars labeled with things like "Picking up the last sweater on the rack and it's on sale" and "Having the perfect weather on your wedding day." Much to Darcy's surprise-this store sells happy feelings. After Darcy accidentally breaks one of the irreplaceable jars, she must make it up...

"Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. They've picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure their game master Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful and fun-loving bard; and Zoey, a wise and caring cleric,...

"Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics explores race and blackness in comic books, comic strips, and editorial cartoons in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century through the height of the industry's popularity in the 1950s. The historical perception of Black people in comic art has long been tied to caricatures of indecipherable minstrels, devious witch doctors, and brutal savages. Yet the...

"The Bat-Family teens have settled into a routine, but it's a little different from the usual round of school, sports, social media, and sleepovers. These vigilantes-in-training are learning how to use superpowers, playing Assassin (it's nonlethal, they promise), and foiling super-villains. They're also going on patrol, cleaning their rooms, and getting school pictures taken-it can't all be fun and games. Meeting new friends is part of growing up,...