5 More Indie/Smaller Press Graphic Novels That Will Make Perfect Gifts for the Holidays

A while back I made a holiday shopping list of graphic novels from only indie/small(er) press publishing companies. Ranging from middle-grade lit to YA to even touching into erotica comic territory–it was a fun list to make. This year, as W-I-L-D, as it has been, has produced some great graphic novels, many great debuts in this genre as well! I wanted to honor some of them with another spotlight as we dip into the part of the year where the gift-giving holidays start appearing. As someone who believes that books are essential, graphic novels are real books–here’s another shopping guide of comics to recommend, purchase, read, and share!

Banned Book Club

By Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada & Illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju / Publisher: Iron Circus Comics/ Age Range: YA Oh. Banned Book Club certainly sits in the “favorite memoirs of the year’ category for me. When I reviewed it earlier this year, I wrote that it is the ” Daring Memoir That Comes Once A Generation.” Banned Book Club presents the true story of a South Korean woman’s student days in college in the early 1980s. Under an authoritarian regime, she found — through the rebellion of reading — her purpose and learned how powerful tool censorship can be. Narratives about rebelling young people who are not the default Caucasian or American are needed. These stories outside of America are so important and worthy of our attention and our admiration. Narratives about persons of color who get centered in their own stor…