Free Comic Book Day - Adults

In celebration of Free Comic Book Day (annually on the 1st Saturday of May), GVPL asked staff what their favorite graphic novels are. Here are some of the ones we love and think you might love too.


Updated April 28, 2026
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All our ordinary stories : a multigenerational family odyssey
Wong, Teresa
Paper Book
Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents. Through a series of stories - some epic, like her mother and father's daring escapes from communes during China's...
Ducks : two years in the oil sands
Beaton, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023! "An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival."--Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times...
Man-eaters. Vol. 1
Cain, Chelsea
Ebook
Adolescent girls can be real monsters.Maude is twelve which is just about that age when some girls turn into flesh-eating wildcats. As her detective dad investigates a series of strange mauling attacks, Maude begins to worry that she might be the killer. From the creative team that brought you the...
March. Book 1
Lewis, John
Paper Book
#1New York TimesBestseller Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to...
Roaming
Tamaki, Mariko
Paper Book
"Gloriously rendered... An ode to traveling as friends when you're both young and carefree and every new experience is exciting and wondrous."―Robert Ito, The New York Times Book Review Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city. ...
Sabrina
Drnaso, Nick
Paper Book
Una escalofriante novela gráfica sobre los estragos de una sociedad hiperconectada. Primera novela gráfica nominada al Premio Man Booker Sabrina Gallo, una mujer de 27 años, desaparece un día al regresar del trabajo. A partir de ese momento comienza la historia de...
Thirsty mermaids
Leyh, Kat
Paper Book
The Eisner and Lambda Literary Award nominated graphic novel about a group of mermaids trapped on dry land--from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and coauthor of the bestselling Lumberjanes series! Fresh out of shipwreck wine,...
We stand on guard
Vaughan, Brian K.
Ebook
Set one hundred years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent... the United States of America. Collects WE STAND ON GUARD #1-6

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