Welcome to the Graphic Novels tab!
Here you will find a few popular graphic novels and comic books to check out.
We have a Research Tools box with books, databases, journals and more on researching comics and graphic novels. We also have a listing of selected graphic novels to check out, and a video on Dr. Lee Francis' TedTalk. We also have a side panel with Indigenous comics websites, non-specific to Indigenous communities comics websites, Indigenous comics vendors and readings lists with more comic book recommendations from across the web.
The hyperlink will take you to the catalog's entry for that text. If it's not hyperlinked, we don't have it - yet!
Ghost River
by
Fenton (Editor); Francis 4; Alvitre (Illustrator)
A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou
by
Elizabeth LaPensée
Native Realities Press brings you A Howl: A Comics Collection of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou. From unbridled werewolves to werewolves from outer space, these unique comics are gathered together for the mature reader.
This collection edited by Elizabeth LaPensée (Co-Editor of Deer Woman: An Anthology, Sovereign Traces Vol. 1, MOONSHOT Vol. 3 & Editor of Sovereign Traces Vol. 2) features new comics by accomplished writers and illustrators who have a love for all things wolves, werewolves, and rougarou. Featuring comics by Stephen Graham Jones (The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto, Demon Theory, Mongrels), Weshoyot Alvitre (Marvel's Voices,Deer Woman, MOONSHOT Vol. 2 & 3), Jay Odjick (KAGAGI: The Raven, Blackflies, Bear for Breakfast), Krystal Cox, Maria Wolf Lopez (By the Horns, Women of Marvel, Deer Woman), Sadekaronhes Esquivel (MOONSHOT Vol. 3), Dale Ray Deforest (Hero Twins, The Powwow Mystery, Trickster), plus splash art by Wolf Tomoyaketu, Rhonda Lucy, and Ovila Mailhot and many, many more of today's finest Indigenous comic creators!
Sixkiller #1
by
Lee Francis 4 (Writer), Weshoyot Alvitre (Illustrator)
Alice In Wonderland meets Kill Bill set in Cherokee Country.
When Alice Sixkiller's sister is murdered she embarks on a mysterious journey of revenge. But her quest won't be easy, especially as her schizophrenia pulls her further and further down the rabbit hole. As she is swept away from reality, the stories and characters of her people give her purpose and direction: to find her sister's killer and exact vengeance.
This debut comic by writer Lee Francis 4 (Pueblo of Laguna), with illustrations by the incomparable Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), weaves a surreal tale of intrigue, identity, blood memory and issues of violence against Native women.
Note: for adult readers - contains images of violence.
Super Indian Volume One
by
Arigon Starr
Hubert Logan was an ordinary Reservation boy until he ate tainted commodity cheese infused with Rezium, a secret government food enrichment additive. Known as Super Indian, Hubert fights evil forces who would overtake the Reservation's resources and population. Assisted by his trusty sidekicks Mega Bear and Diogi, they fight crime the way they know how -- with strength, smarts and humor.
Key Terms
A user can find relevant articles with key search terms. A combination of the following will yield appropriate responses: “Native American” “Native” “Indigenous” “American Indian” or specific tribe names such as “Ojibwe” “Pequot” or others, and “comics” or "graphic novels" or "comic books"
Boolean Operators
In addition to using keywords listed in the box above, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) will assist you with finding sources.
AND: will return results containing both words entered in the search (Native American AND literature)
OR: will return results with either search term used; can be helpful when searching for synonyms or related terms (Native OR Indigenous)
Quotation marks will search the exact term ("Native American literature")
Parenthesis will help improve a search by allowing for multiple search filters: (Native American OR Indigenous OR American Indian) AND Comics
Truncation will widen a search with a wildcard symbol (*), so any variation of the root will be gathered (Photo* will return Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Photosynthesis, etc.)
Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
by
Shelby Wolf (Editor); Karen Coats (Editor); Patricia A. Enciso (Editor); Christine Jenkins (Editor)
This book has a chapter called "Comics and Graphic Novels" that give a history on comics and its eventual recognition as a literature.
Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. "
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Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
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Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
These databases are not academic so they will not contain peer-reviewed articles, but they are still helpful resources to provide information on various topics concerning comic books/graphic novels.
Contact the liaison librarian to the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, Adriana Casarez (adriana.casarez@austin.utexas.edu) for research help.
Dr. Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna) was an educator, activist, poet, CEO/Publisher of Native Realities, owner of Red Planet Comics & Books store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Organizer of Indigenous Comic Con and comic creator. He was often referred to as the Stan Lee of the Indigenous community. This short TedTalk video is a great introduction to who Dr. Lee Francis IV was, however, I would highly suggest looking up more of his videos including interviews and reading some of his comics, including Moonshot; Ghost River; Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers; One Land, Many Nations, among others.

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