Found a graphic novel you're interested in and want to place a hold on it? Click on the title you'd like in this guide and it will take you to it's record in HMCPL's catalog. From there you should see a "Place Hold" option on the right hand side of the screen, click on that and you will be prompted to log in to your account if you aren't already. Once logged in you'll be able to review the book you're about to place on hold and choose a branch destination for you to pick it up at. Click the Place Hold button and you're done!
Keep in mind if you're looking for a specific volume in a series (Like Walking Dead, Saga, Fables, ect.) that the volume you're looking for may be in a record with multiple volumes. If you do not specific which one you'd like to put on hold, the system will pull the next available copy regardless of which one it might be. To place a spefic volume on hold, click on the title you'd like in this guide and it will take you to it's record in HMCPL's catalog where you should see a "Place Hold"option on the right hand side of the screen. From this screen click the "Show more options" box and click the "A specific item" box where you'll be able to select the specific volume you need!
Keep in mind that for larger series records it will not immediately show all the items in it and will display a message "this record has many physical items" and will not give you the option to place a hold until you click "click here to view them all."
The library has moved to a new catalog system is more intuitive and user friendly, unfortunately this means the migration will break all of the previous links in our libguides and blogs referencing links to books in our old system. Our team will be working to fix the issue as soon as possible, but in the meantime you may experience broken links while browsing, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Non-Fiction (Biography)
Fantasy (Shōnen)
Realistic, Romance
Non-Fiction (Biography)
Fantasy, Romance
This guide highlights the Young Adult Graphic Novel collection, although a large variety of the titles present are acceptable for adults as well, each book summary will have an age range recommendation. You can view our overview to the adult graphic novel collection here.
Books are broken up into several genres and then into subsections, with the fiction titles broken down into graphics novels, light novels, as well as various forms of manga. On-going series with at least three volumes are listed in their own separate boxes for easy reference with shorter duologies and stand-alones grouped together in a general box. Fiction titles are arranged alphabetically by title and non-fiction titles numerically and alphabetically as they appear on the shelf. Many titles fall under multiple genres so they are listed in more than one section to be easily found and each title links to our catalog to check availability and the ability to place holds.
On the left-hand side of each page you'll find a listing of complete series we have of that specific page's genre, with a master list of the teen graphics complete series on the "Read By Genre" page, Clicking the title of the series will bring you to it's respective catalog entry.
In addition to the genre listings there are also pages for comics adapted to other forms of media (like tv shows, movies, video games) and another for graphics recognized by YALSA (Young Adults Library Services Association) as the best fiction and non-fiction titles by year.
Terms
Comic books refer to single issue periodicals (typically monthly) while graphic novels generally refer to original material that has never before been serialized in comic book form. TPBs or trade paperbacks tend to refer to a collected storyarc of a comic book series. much like books these usually are released in hardcover form first and then softcover. Light Novels are short novellas that are commonly collections of serialized work or companion pieces to popular manga and anime. Manga referes to Japanese comics that are serialized in magazines, successful ones being printed in paperback which are commonly referred to as 'manga,' typically in black and white and read the reverse of Western comic, right to left. Shōujo manga refers to titles targeted towards girls with focus on relationships and romantic from the female perspective (with Josei referring to older teen girls) while Shōnen refers to titles targeted towards boys which typically have high action and are centered around male leads(with Seinen referring to older teen boys). Although any age and gender can find either type appealing!
Publishers
Boom Studios- Responsible for such titles as Lumberjanes, The Midas Flesh, Munchkin and others.
Kaboom- Boom's all ages line of books with titles which have included Pixar and Disney properties in the past.
Boom Box- Boom's teen-oriented line of titles like Backstagers.
Bongo - Typically all ages friendly, responsible for such titles as The Simpsons, Futurama and Spongebob Squarepants among others.
Dark Horse- Typically for teens and up, responsible for such titles as Conan the Barbarian, Hellboy, Goon and 1990's-200's Star Wars books among others.
DC- Responsible for such titles as Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and others.
Dynamite- Responsible for such titles as Red Sonja, Game of Thrones, Lone Ranger and others.
IDW- Responsible for such titles as Transformers, Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe and more mature titles like 30 Days of Night among others.
Image- Typically for teens and up, responsible for such titles as Walking Dead, Invincible, Fatale and others.
Marvel- Responsible for such titles as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and others.
Ultimate- Marvel's imprint for an updated universe with more diverse characters and more relatable stories for new generations of readers.
Toykopop- Responsible for manga titles such as Kingdom Hearts.
Viz Media- Responsible for manga titles as well as popular magazines like Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat.
Yen Press- Responsible for manga titles such as Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and others.
