Book themes key:
☀️ - Australian Creator
✏️ - BIPOC Creator
🏳️🌈 - LGBTQI+ identities or Creator
🌻 - Neurodivergent & Disability identities or Creator
🧠 - Mental Health
⭐️ - My Top Faves
Picture Books
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Be Your Own Man by Jessica Sanders & Robbie Cathro
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The Cafe at the edge of the Woods by Mikey Please
The King Cat by Marta Altés
The Library of Bears by Cat Rabbit ☀️
Early Reader Graphic Novels
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Rainbow the Koala by Remy Lai ☀️ ⭐️
Star the Elephant by Remy Lai ☀️ ⭐️
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The Adventures of Anders by Gregory Mackay ☀️
Hairy Holes by Brenton McKenna ☀️ ✏️
Bug Boys Series by Laura Knetzger
Detective Beans & The Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen ✏️
Dewdrop by K. O’Neill 🏳️🌈
Expedition Backyard by Rosemary Mosco & Binglin Hu ✏️
The Flower Garden by Renee Kurilla
Frankie and the Creepy Cute Critters by Caitlin Rose Boyle
Frankie’s World by Aoife Dooley 🌻
Gustav & Henri series by Andy Matthews & Peader Thomas ☀️
Mr Wolf’s Class Series by Aron Nels Steinke
Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson & Qin Leng ✏️
Spring Cakes by Miranda Harmon
Wolfie Monster and the Big Bad Pizza Battle by Joey Ellis
Middle Grade Graphic Novels
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Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
Human Body Theater by Maris Wicks
Primates by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
Science Comics: Bats Learning to Fly by Falynn Koch
Tasty: A Yummy History of Experiments by Victoria Grace Elliott
Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliott
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A First Time For Everything by Dan Santat ✏️
A Tale as Tall as Jacob by Samantha Edwards 🌻
A-Okay by Jarad Greene 🏳️🌈
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
Best Friends by Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham ✏️ ⭐️
Big Apple Diaries by Alyssa Bermudez ☀️ ✏️
Button Pusher by Tyler Page 🌻
El Deafo by Cece Bell 🌻
Doodles from the the Boogie Down by Stephanie Rodriguez ✏️
Friends Forever by Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham ✏️ ⭐️
Growing Pangs by Kathryn Ormsbee & Molly Brooks 🏳️🌈
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Let’s Go, Coco! by Coco Fox
Maybe an Artist by Liz Montague ✏️
Other Boys by Damian Alexander 🏳️🌈
Puzzled by Pan Cooke 🌻
Real Friends by Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham ✏️ ⭐️
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
Smile by Raina Telgemeier ⭐️
Stargazing by Jen Wang ✏️ ⭐️
The Tryout by Christina Soontornvat & Joanna Cacao ✏️
Turning Twelve by Kathryn Ormsbee & Molly Brooks
Uprooted by Ruth Chan ✏️
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed ✏️ ⭐️
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Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter ✏️
American Born Chinese by Gene Leun Yang ✏️ ⭐️
Apple Crush by Lucy Knisley ⭐️
Brave by Svetlana Chmakova ⭐️
Cat’s Cradle: The Golden Twine by Jo Rioux
Chickpox by Remy Lai ☀️ ✏️ ⭐️
Click by Kayla Miller
Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes 🏳️🌈
Delilah Dirk series by Tony Cliff
Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag & Xanthe Bouma 🏳️🌈
Freestyle by Gale Galligan ✏️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Fresh Start by Gale Galligan ✏️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Go with the Flow by Lily Williams & Karen Schneemann
Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson
Just Roll with It by Lee Durfey-Lavoie and Veronica Agarwal 🌻 ✏️ ⭐️
Jonesy by Sam Humphries & Caitlin Rose Boyle 🏳️🌈
Living with Viola by Rosena Fung 🧠 ✏️ ⭐️
Lo and Behold by Wendy Mass and Gabi Mendez ✏️
Lunar Boy by Jes & Can Wibowo 🏳️🌈 ✏️
Mabuhay! by Zachary Sterling ✏️
Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos 🏳️🌈
New Kid by Jerry Craft ✏️
Next Stop by Debbie Fong ✏️
One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks
Out There by Seaerra Miller
Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang ✏️
Pawcasso by Remy Lai ☀️ ✏️ ⭐️
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks ⭐️
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson ⭐️
Sink or Swim by Lee Durfey-Lavoie and Veronica Agarwal 🏳️🌈 🧠 ✏️ ⭐️
A Sky of Paper Stars by Susie Yi ✏️
Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi & Sharlene Khan ✏️
Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter ✏️
Twin Cities by Jose Pimienta ✏️
Twins by Varian Johnson & Shannon Wright ✏️
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Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi ✏️ ⭐️
Anzu And the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen ✏️ ⭐️
Cryptid Kids: The Bawk-ness Monster by Sara Goetter & Natalie Riess 🏳️🌈
Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures by Jason Pamment ☀️
The Girl and the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag 🏳️🌈
Ghost Book by Remy Lai ☀️ ✏️
Home Time by Campbell Whyte ☀️
In Real Life by Corey Doctorow & Jen Wang ✏️
Jukebox by Nidha Chanani ✏️
Ligthfall series by Tim Probert 🧠 ⭐️
The Lumberjanes Series by various creators 🏳️🌈
Making Friends series by Kristen Gudsnuk ⭐️
The Mapmakers series by Cameron Chittock & Amanda Castillo ✏️ 🏳️🌈
Mighty Jack series by Ben Hatke 🌻
The Nameless City series by Faith Erin Hicks ⭐️
Nico Bravo series by Mike Cavallaro
The Okay Witch series by Emma Steinkellner
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol ⭐️
Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen ✏️ ⭐️
Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces by Carlos Sánchez 🌻
Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill
Tea Dragon Society Series by K. O’Neill 🌻 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Treasure in the Lake by Jason Pamment ☀️
Ubby’s Underdogs by Brenton E McKenna ☀️ ✏️
The Witchboy Series by Molly Knox Ostertag 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
YA Graphic Novels
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Tetris by Box Brown
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¡Ay, Mija! by Christine Suggs ✏️
Button Pusher by Tyler Page 🌻
Displacement by Kiku Hughes ✏️
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Homebody by Theo Parish 🏳️🌈
It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood 🧠
It Won’t Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib ✏️
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao ✏️
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer ✏️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures by N.D. Stevenson 🏳️🌈
Spinning by Tillie Walden 🏳️🌈
The Times I Knew I was Gay by Eleanor Crewes 🏳️🌈
Tomboy by Liz Prince ⭐️
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox 🏳️🌈
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Bad Machinery series by John Allison ⭐️
Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheay 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Blue by Pat Grant ☀️ ⭐️
Cheer up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise & Oscar O. Jupiter 🏳️🌈
Firebird by Sunmi 🏳️🌈 ✏️
Garbage Night by Jen Lee
the greatest thing by Sarah Winifred Searle ☀️ 🏳️🌈 🧠 ⭐️
The Grot by Pat Grant ☀️ ⭐️
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Hockey Girl loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Just Friends by Ana Oncina 🏳️🌈
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell ✏️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham ✏️ ⭐️
Matchmaker by Cam Marshall 🏳️🌈
The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown
The Princess & the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise ✏️ 🏳️🌈
Scott Pilgrim Series by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas ✏️
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki ✏️ 🧠
Tiger, Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund
Wrassle Castle Series by Colleen Coover & Paul Tobin
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ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End of Times by Andrew MacLean
Blokkan by Rohan Fraser ☀️
Daughter of Snow and Cinders by Nuria Tamarit
Girl Haven by Lilac Sturges, Meaghan Carter & Joamette Gil 🏳️🌈
The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cutugno
Homunculus by Joe Sparrow
Knee Deep Book one by Joe Flood
Legend of Brightblade by Ethan M. Aldridge
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson 🏳️🌈
Red Scare by Liam Francis Walsh
Spaceboy series by Stephen McCranie
Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries ☀️ 🏳️🌈 ✏️
Adult Graphic Novels
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Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Brain “Box” Brown ⭐️
Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth ☀️ 🌻 🧠 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Fine: A comic about Gender by Rhea Ewing
The He-Man Effect by Brian “Box” Brown ⭐️
How to Survive the North by Luke Healy
Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown
Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System by Safdar Ahmed ☀️ ✏️ ⭐️
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The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui ✏️
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom graphic memoir by Tyler Feder
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton ⭐️
Everything is OK by Debbie Tung ✏️ 🧠
Feelings by Manjit Thapp ✏️
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 🏳️🌈
Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Improve by Alex Graudins 🧠 ⭐️
Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
Layers by Pénélope Bagieu
Maus by Art Spiegelman ⭐️
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ✏️ ⭐️
Relish by Lucy Knisley 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Sensitive Creatures by Mandy Ord ☀️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
When One Person Dies the World is Over by Mandy Ord ☀️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
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a GUEST in the HOUSE by Emily Carroll
Blacksad series by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido ✏️ ⭐️
Building Stories by Chris Ware
The Delicacy by James Albon
Flake by Matthew Dooley
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Hark! a Vagrant by Kate Beaton ⭐️
Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt ⭐️
Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
Oishinbo Series by Test Kariya & Akira Hanasaki
Self-esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai ☀️ ✏️ 🏳️🌈 ⭐️
Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée
Under-Earth by Chris Gooch ☀️ ⭐️
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Pluto Series by Naomi Urasawa & Osamu Tezuka ✏️ ⭐️
Papergirls Series by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang ✏️
Time before Time by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville & Joe Palmer
How to Books
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The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud ⭐️
Drawing Comics Lab by Robyn Chapman
Let’s Make Comics! by Jess Smart Smiley
Making Comics by Scott McCloud ⭐️
Syllabus by Lynda Barry
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud ⭐️
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Fundamentals of Character Design by Randy Bishop, Sweeny Boo, Maybes Ruiz Cruz, Luis Gadea ⭐️
How to Draw Almost everything by Chika Miyata
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Unleash your Creative Monster by Andy Jones, Illustrated by Olaf Falafel