Visaggio pairs up with fellow queer comics indie starlet St-Onge to spice up an eighth-grade friendship triangle with ghosts and demon summoning. Hale (the Hazardous Tales series) turns from true histories to truly ridiculous prehistoric antics with this buddy story of a trilobite and an ambulatory whale who angle to make it big online. Random House Graphic, May 2 ($13.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-2-8)Īddie’s not out to make friends when her dad’s summer gig drags her across the country-, but when Mateo invites her to play with a virtual reality headset, her mind opens.

There couldn’t be a more winning combo for young comics fans (and hipster parents). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 30 ($14.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-2-9)Įisner winner Walden draws indie-pop-darling twins Tegan and Sara’s tales of their tweens. Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden.

Set in 1975 Indiana, Tavares’s debut dramatizes through the story of an underfunded girls’ basketball team the fight for equity in school sports that resulted in Title IX. 28 ($14.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-4-8)Ĭaldecott Medalist Santat gets into the graphic memoir game, recalling his junior high class trip to Europe, where he gets teased but meets the delights of a new world. Rodriguez’s debut follows a Dominican eighth grader who applies to join Fame (aka New York City’s La Guardia High School) and navigates the high-stakes admissions process against her mom’s wishes. This spring sees the debut graphic memoir from picture book star Dan Santat, the return of phenoms Jerry Craft and Nathan Hale, and a diverse bevy of up-and-comers, such as Stephanie Rodriguez, for young readers to discover.

Buzzing by Samuel Sattin