LGBTQIA+ (YA comics)

These are some of our favourite recent LGBTQIA+ comics and graphic novels. Of course, there's way more than this in our collection! Indeed, some of the titles featured in our other comic book-lists also feature LGBTQIA+ characters and themes, just proving that you can find queer characters into gaming, involved with magic or the supernatural, at a camp, or in space. They're everywhere!

Updated August 1, 2024
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Galaxy : the prettiest star
Axelrod, Jadzia
Paper Book
It takes strength to live as your true self, and one alien princess disguised as a human boy is about to test her power. A vibrant story about gender identity, romance, and shining as bright as the stars. "An effervescent and poignant tale about discovering and embracing your truest...
Four-Color Heroes
Fairgray, Richard
Paper Book
Four-Color Heroes is a touching love story which follows two star-crossed young men who - in spite of their disparate backgrounds - find escape and one another through the pages of a comic book. Written and illustrated by Aotearoa/New Zealand-born creator Richard Fairgray (Black Sand Beach,...

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Pixels of you
Hirsh, Ananth
Paper Book
A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends--and maybe more--in this moving YA graphic novel from award-winning writers Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota, and illustrator J.R. Doyle. "A sweet, smart tale of art, bitterness, enmity, and camaraderie."--New York Times...
The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich
Muniz, Deya
Paper Book
Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land is that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she does the only thing she can: She disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the...
The greatest thing
Searle, Sarah Winifred
Paper Book
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist A 2023 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens A 2023 Children's Book Council Young Adult Favorite It's the first day of sophomore year, and now that Winifred's two best (and only) friends have transferred to...
The hazards of love. Book 1, Bright world
Stanley, Stan
Paper Book
"This fantastical, stunning tale shines in both story and artwork." -- School Library Journal (star review) "A noir fantasy -- part adventure, part love story, all the way spectacularly creepy." -- Kirkus Reviews (star review) The Hazards of Love follows the...
Honor girl
Thrash, Maggie
Paper Book
All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort. Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp...
Kiss number 8
Venable, Colleen A. F.
Paper Book
A 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlist Selection A 2019 New York Public Library Best Books for Kids A 2020 Tayshas Reading List Selection A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection ...
Stars in their eyes
Walton, Jessica; As̀ka
Paper Book
Maisie has always dreamed of meeting her hero, Kara Bufano, an amputee actor who plays a kick-arse amputee character in her favourite show. Fancon is big and exciting and exhausting. Then she meets Ollie, a cute volunteer who she has a lot in common with. Could this be the start of something, or...
Witchlight
Zabarsky, Jessi
Paper Book
Love -- loss -- witches -- this YA fantasy graphic novel has it all! This thoughtful, emotional story will entrance you with its moving story and organic artwork. Lelek is a witch. That's all Sanja knows when she meets Lelek in the marketplace. But Lelek is hiding...

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