None of these are a longer arc with multiple volumes, so, so much for my reading comprehension, but I would like to recommend:
Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis. Alternate history coming of age, set in a convent on a small island, involving alt-history equivalents of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. A lot of really rich detail.
The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor. Historical fantasy set in a logging camp in CA in 1885.
The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen. Emigration, family, and fairy tales.
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin. SFF action-adventure comedy.
These are all middlegrade or YA, from the past five years. Going back further in time and not YA, Ursula Vernon's Digger is a neat fantasy-adventure, although I don't know whether a comic shop would have that. Ben Wilgus's Chronin, writing as Alison Wilgus, for time-traveling cross-dressing samurai - that's actually a duology. Delilah Dirk, swashbuckling historical fantasy, there's like three of those - my favorite was the first one. Hereville, about an 11-year-old troll-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, there's also three of those. (Now we're back in middlegrade.) No idea whether any of these are in print/in stores.
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Date: 2023-09-26 03:42 pm (UTC)Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis. Alternate history coming of age, set in a convent on a small island, involving alt-history equivalents of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. A lot of really rich detail.
The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor. Historical fantasy set in a logging camp in CA in 1885.
The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen. Emigration, family, and fairy tales.
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin. SFF action-adventure comedy.
These are all middlegrade or YA, from the past five years. Going back further in time and not YA, Ursula Vernon's Digger is a neat fantasy-adventure, although I don't know whether a comic shop would have that. Ben Wilgus's Chronin, writing as Alison Wilgus, for time-traveling cross-dressing samurai - that's actually a duology. Delilah Dirk, swashbuckling historical fantasy, there's like three of those - my favorite was the first one. Hereville, about an 11-year-old troll-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, there's also three of those. (Now we're back in middlegrade.) No idea whether any of these are in print/in stores.