Select language, opens an overlay
0 messages from the library
  • General Recommendations
  • Staff-Created List

Make Your Next Series A Graphic Novel Series

These first-in-a-series graphic novels will have you searching our shelves for the second, the third, the fourth...well, you get the point.

User from Belleville Public Library

15 items

  • Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York City : Scholastic, 2020. — YG HEA
  • Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's "between jobs," and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading…
    Graphic Novel, 2012Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2012. — YG SCO
  • Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York, NY : First Second, 2018. — YG CHE
  • As the Doomsday Clock ticks toward midnight, the DC Universe will encounter with its greatest threat: Dr. Manhattan. But nothing is hidden from Manhattan, and the secrets of the past, present and future will leave ramifications on our heroes lives…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2019. — YG DOO
  • Join Midoriya, All Might and all the aspiring heroes of U.A. High, plus memorable villains, in an irreverent take on the main events of the series, complete with funny gags, ridiculous jokes and superpowered humor!
    Graphic Novel, 2019San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, 2019. — GR YA FICHori #1
  • Kakuriyo

    Bed & Breakfast for Spirits.

    Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits—and his massive debt to them! Now she’s been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed,…
    Graphic Novel, 2019San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, 2019. — YG KAK
  • As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
    Graphic Novel, 2011New York : Yen Press, 2011. — YG BRI
  • Ultraman

    Rise of Ultraman 2020

    Higgins, Kyle
    In the darkness there lurk Kaiju--terrifying and unfathomable monsters. Between them and the rest of us stands the United Science Patrol! But who are these enigmatic defenders, and how do they perform their miracles?
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : Marvel, 2021. — YG ULT
  • Defiant and vulgar, Princess Kaguya Takenouchi is not the heir to the moon's Silver Court that her mother's retainers had hoped for. But when the empress falls ill during a wave of terrorist attacks, Kaguya resolves to do right by her people and…
    Graphic Novel, 2023San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, 2023. — YG BLA
  • Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other no-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. Her father, his court and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king, but Mera…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Burbank, CA : DC Ink, 2019. — YG MER
  • Sankarea, Undying Love

    If I ...became...aZombie

    After secretly creating a resurrection potion from hydrangea leaves for his beloved deceased cat, Babu, zombie-obsessed high school student Chihiro Furuya decides to test his creation on Sanka Rea, a popular classmate and local heiress.
    Graphic Novel, 2013–New York : Kodansha Comics, 2013- — YG SAN
  • Magical Boy

    a Graphic Novel

    Descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil, Max, an average high school trans boy, wonders if he can take on his destiny, save the world and become the new Magical Boy.
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2021. — YG MAG
  • Death Note

    Boredom

    Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now…
    Graphic Novel, 2005San Francisco, CA : Viz , 2005. — YG DEA
  • Extraordinary

    A Villains Story

    Taking place in the years between VICIOUS and VENGEFUL, ExtraOrdinary follows the tale of a teenage girl named Charlotte Tills who following a fatal bus crash, seemingly dies only to wake up to discover she has become an EO — a person with…
    Graphic Novel, 2021London : Titan Comics, 2021. — YG EXT
  • As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans…
    Graphic Novel, 2016San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, 2016. — YG PLA