by Matt Peters Content advisory: Strong language (including homophobic and racist slurs) and brief depictions of nudity, hate crimes, and police violence In Howard Cruse’s classic graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, a character’s journey to self-acceptance is one of constant barriers and unexpected turns. Set in the early 1960s in the American South, Stuck Rubber Baby is the story of Toland Polk, a young adult living at a pivotal time in his life—and a pivotal time in history. As a gay white man, he’s faced with finding his place in a homophobic culture—and his place within a multiracial… Read More
Nick Pope: Summer of ’88
by Laboni Das Christopher Stanton and Raymond Klecker’s Nick Pope: Summer of ’88 continues the evocative, diaristic exploration of adolescence introduced in its prequel, Nick Pope: A Diary (2023), deepening its engagement with questions of identity, embodiment, and emotional vulnerability. While the earlier volume foregrounded Nick’s social alienation and bullying, this sequel turns inward, charting a more complex terrain of emotional fragmentation, artistic self-exploration, and relational instability. Presented once again in the form of an illustrated diary, the narrative unfolds over the summer of 1988. The diary format remains central to the book’s appeal, combining handwritten text with expressive black-and-white… Read More
DAR Volumes 1 & 2 (A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary)
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