Blog Posts by Subject: Comics and Graphic Novels

These manga titles offer heart-pounding, dread-inducing, thrilling tales of suspense and tension—can you handle it?

Follow the journey of these manga "monsters" as they learn how to tame the beasts within them before they themselves succumb to the overwhelming rage and power!

Put your favorite cozy sweater on and cuddle up with some of our latest round of manga staff picks.

Our devoted team of eerie experts are standing by to give you titles that will leave you trembling in terror.

Greetings ghouls! Are you a fan of things that go bump in the night? Do you delight in tales of death and despair? Are you, like, really into zombies? Then you’re in the right place!

Here we’ve gathered titles that feature either the effort that goes into creating manga, selling manga, or just being obsessed with manga.

Our librarians have scoured our collection to bring you some of the trippiest, dreamiest, weirdest surreal manga and graphic novels.

If you’re ready to help a dragon find a home or to explore the realities of dungeon cuisine, then you’re ready for this fun manga subgenre.

As these titles show, the turbulent teenage years are prime fodder for stories that explore burgeoning feelings of love, anger, resentment, and self-actualization.

Ready to kick back on the beach with a new book? Here is a list of our librarians' personal favorite must-read manga.

Sometimes you need a break from the overpowered foes and never-ending tournaments of battle manga. If you're looking for a calmer read, slice of life manga are what you need.

These stories revolve around the protagonist struggling to choose which of the possible romantic partners they want to end up with. The series will end up in one of two ways: 1. They make a decision and end up with one person, or 2. They choose none of them.

While typically romantic in nature, manga in this genre focus on the relationships between humans and monsters or monsters and other monsters regardless of whether they are platonic, romantic, or sexual. Here monster refers to any non-human creature such as a vampire, demon, mermaid, unicorn—anything really!

Greetings fighters! Are you ready to power up and battle down? Then drop your training weights, and let’s dive into some battle manga!

Here we have gathered some of the most popular and unique genres, subgenres, and tropes that currently exist in manga to better help you find your next read!

Some of these series have been going on for years with no end in sight while others are relatively new. If you’re looking for something new or new-ish to check out, you’re in the right place.

These behemoths of twenty-five volumes or more are perfect for veteran readers who can handle long, multi-volume story arcs, and slow but steady character growth.

Love manga, but aren't looking for a long-term commitment? These series have enough volumes to really develop character and plot, but won't make you feel totally overwhelmed.

Art Spiegelman’s Maus brought attention to the validity of graphic novels as a storytelling format. In the decades since, others have come forward with their own stories of survival or their own understanding of events told through graphic novels that allow them to not only write their own stories but also to control the visuals so that we can quite literally see events through their point of view.