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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Racism
Slut-shaming
Nightmares
Suicidal ideation recounted
Alcohol consumption
Drug use
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child from cancer mentioned (leukemia)
Death of a wife from drowning mentioned
Death of a husband in a car accident recounted, on-page (theme)

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Murder
Genocide
Blackmail
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Bullying

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism, on-page
Rape
Gun violence
Scalping
Animal death

The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

When Kayla Carter’s husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. But when she is confronted by an odd, older woman telling her not to move in, she almost agrees. It’s clear this woman has some kind of connection to the area…and a connection to Kayla herself. Kayla’s elderly new neighbour, Ellie Hockley, is more welcoming, but it’s clear she, too… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Rape
Alcoholism
Manic-depressive episode
Murder

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there’s more at stake than merely winning and losing.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Substance addiction
Death of a parent

The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Ableism
Racism
Antiziganism
Homomisia
Graphic rape & statutory rape
Graphic sexual assault of a child
Adult-minor relationship
Trauma
Nightmares & night terrors
Graphic suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Smoking
Pregnancy from rape
Abortion (theme)
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
Cancer
Emesis
Hospital
Dismemberment
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father
Death of a friend
Death of a brother
Death of a fiancé
Murder
Physical assault
Drowning
Rollercoaster accident
Car accident recounted
Graphic death of a pet dog
Bullying

Be Gay, Do Comics by Various

Be Gay, Do Comics edited by Matt Bors and Sarah Mirk

Contributions from Alex Graudins, Alexis Sudgen, Alison Qilgus, Archie Bongiovanni, Bianca Xunise, Binglin Hu, Breena Nunez, Delta Vasquez, Dorian Alexander, Dylan Edwards, Elísabet Rún, Hazel Newlevant, Jason Michaels, JBBrager, Joey Alison Sayers, Josh Trujillo, Julia Bernhard, Kazimir Lee, Kendra Wells, Levi Hastings, Mady G., Maia Kobabe, Mariah-Rose Marie, Matt Lubchansky, Max Dlabick, Melanie Gillman, Nero O’Reilly, Ria Martinez, Robyn Jordan, Rosa Colón Guerra, Sage Coffey, Sam Wallman, Sasha Velour, Scout Tran, Sfé R. Monster, Shelby Criswell, Shing Yin Khor, Taneka Stotts and Trinidad Escobar.

Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride. Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humour, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the American Revolution through Stonewall to today’s fights for equality and representation.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia
Transmisia

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Show Tunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house. The house may look respectable on the outside but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface,… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antisemitism
Racism
Drug use & abuse

Dare to Be a Duchess by Sapna Bhog

Dare to Be a Duchess by Sapna Bhog

Lara Ramsay is no stranger to scandal. As the orphaned daughter of a British colonel and his beloved Indian wife, whispers follow her everywhere. Not even the protection of the formidable Duke of Wolverton, a man she can’t stand, keeps the gossips at bay.

The audacious Lara has driven Tristan Wentworth, The Duke of Wolverton, to distraction since the day his uncle took her in—and he’s quite certain doing so is her favourite pastime. After catching her and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Kidnapping