Namae ha Mada nai / 名前はまだない

Suzuran Teichou / スズラン手帖

A collection of stories by Takahashi Mako, which  contains a wide variety of personalities, ages and situations including a story about an older couple.

Maria-sama ga Miteru 1 / マリア様がみてる 1

As the school festival approaches Fukuzawa Yumi is drawn into the affairs of the Lillian Academy Student Council, after the imperious Ogasawara Sachiko reties her tie one fateful morning.

The series that defined a decade begins here – meet Rosa Chinensis, Rosa Foetida and Rosa Gigantea, their “little sisters” and the whole Lillian gang once again.

GIRLS UPRISING カズアキ×深見真百合姫表紙画集

Illustrated by Comic Yuri Hime cover artist Kazuaki and written by novelist Fukami Makoto, Girls Uprising is an illustrated novel set in a fantasy world where high school girls practice sniper skills and an evil scientist experiments on a young girl locked in a tower accompanied only by a self-willed android.

“I will escape from this tower and find my sister.”

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戦争後、水没しかけたこの世界では、ガールズトークしながら、弾倉をセットするjkの姿が当たり前の風景だ。どんな弾丸でも当たる気がしなかったのに、あたしはターゲットの戦部千里に逆に心臓を撃ち抜かれてしまった。それ以来、あたしのハートはズキズキ疼く。アイツから、目が離せないのが悔しくて…。百合姫再誕初のカバーストーリーがイラスト&ノベル完全収録、さらに書き下ろしノベル追加でついに書籍化。

QU33R

Where No Straight Lines, Hall’s historical retrospective of western LGBTQ comix and comics, told us where we came from and  how we got here, Rob Kirby’s new anthology, QU33R: New Comics from 33 Creators, tells us where “here” is.

 

Dolltopia

Abby Denson’s Dolltopia is a light allegory about the plastic dolls we grew up with and what happens when they question their life of plastic conformity and consumerism.

No Straight Lines: Four Decades Of Queer Comics

Comix are the doujinshi of the western comics scene.  Small press or self-published, comix are typically tales told of underground or fringe “lifestyles.” Very often intensely personal, they are a window into a life that may be yours. No Straight Lines looks back at the early history of “gay comix” and the people who  told our stories.

This anthology is a must-read for people interested in the history of western LGBTQ comics.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel subtitled Fun Home a “Family Tragicomic” which suits it very well. It is indeed a graphic rendering of a family locked in tragedy, caught in moments from her life and from the life and death of her father.

12 Days – Digital Edition

When Jackie’s ex-lover Noah dies, she decides the best and quickest way to get over the love of her life is to hold a personal ritual with Noah’s ashes. Jackie consumes the ashes in the form of smoothies for 12 days, hoping the pain will subside with her profound reaction to Noah’s death. While she and her partner-in-crime Nick, Noah’s brother, spend the time in the closed space her apartment, they slowly become consumed by Noah’s tragedy.

Digital Manga available on Comixology