Tag: recommendations
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From Black History to Black Futures: 7 Graphic Novel Recommendations
Thanks for reading another of our recommendations! If you’d like to support us, a local minority-owned comic book store, you can buy the comics above and many more at our online store or on Bookshop.org. Or drop by our brick and mortar shop in Seattle if you’d like some personalized recommendations!
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20 Graphic Novels for the 2025 SPL Adult Book Bingo
One of our favorite time of the year is here: summer reading for grown-ups, and getting to recommend books for it! The Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts and Lectures partner up every summer to bring the city an Adult Book Bingo, with 25ish squares to read and fill. Finding so many books to read…
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3.8 Comics For Celebrating International Women’s Day
It’s 3/8 and that means it’s International Women’s Day! Here are 3 of our favorite comics about women’s rights and history (and 0.8 about women’s wrongs) for today’s Timely Content from Outsider Comics. Thanks for reading another of our recommendations! If you’d like to support us, a local woman-owned comic book store, you can buy…
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Outsider Comic’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide Full of Incredibly Specific (Real) Graphic Novel Recommendations We Have Given
Are you shopping for someone who is incredibly hard to shop for? Or maybe someone who has very specific tastes? Or even someone you hate??? Well, we often get requests for comic recommendations from customers in our Seattle comic book store that start with “this is a weird question, but”. So maybe these will help…
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5 Comics of Trans Persistence for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where we mourn the trans and nonbinary siblings we have lost to violence and oppression, whether systematic or personal. It’s also the day where we continue to fight like hell so the list of names next year gets shorter. And like, to be honest, that task…
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5 All-Ages Comics for Trans Awareness Week
November 13th to 19th is Trans Awareness Week, a week where organizations around the world participate to increase the understanding of issues faced by transgender and nonbinary people. We kind of do that every week what with being a trans-owned small business that stocks many comics and graphic novels by and about trans and nonbinary…
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12 Graphic Novels for the 2024 SPL Teen Book Bingo
Summer is almost over but there’s still a long weekend if you want to finish your Seattle Public Library 2024 Teen Book Bingo card! Not sure what to read? We have a dozen suggestions for you from our teen graphic novel shelves. Every single one of these books are available at our shop in Seattle…
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7 Graphic Novels for the 2024 SAL Kids Book Bingo
Every summer, Seattle Arts and Lectures publishes a kids / middle grade bingo card to help encourage kids to read over the summer. 2024 is no different and we’re excited to offer seven recommendations that fit multiple boxes for the kids bingo sheet, so if your family is looking for ideas for summer reading, check…
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23 Graphic Novels for the 2024 SPL Adult Book Bingo
It’s once again summertime and the Seattle Public Library book bingo is in full swing. Are you looking for more books to help you fill out that bingo card? Interested in exploring graphic novels but don’t know where to start? Want to read books with pictures in them for quicker reads? Whether you’re looking for…