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The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
Graphic Novel - Drama
Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. Her quest is to find ten people to paint for her exhibition, as well as the inspiration to continue with her art, and the strength to move on with her life.
Robust Heat
Graphic Novel - Drama
Soozi Jung, an aspiring artist, finally faces the adversity of losing her parents when she is unable to finish paintings for a show. She decides to confront Daniel Walker, her late father's partner, and the only person to have witnessed the moments that lead up to their great loss. As Daniel struggles to open up to her, Soozi recalls a core memory from her childhood: the night her parents decided to become fugitives to their head-of-state, Kaiser Khöpr. The story of Robust heat tells the saga of Roderick Jung, Soozi's father, and what her parents sacrificed to make sure the people they loved lived to prosper.
Dream Life | a late coming of age
Graphic Novel - Drama
A story of accidental adventure, failed dreams and fantasy lives, in a possibly ambivalent universe.
Murder in BC leads to an inuksuk in Ontario.
Charlie’s childhood friend is about to die.
Hitchhiking in BC PJ’s luck runs out.
Lionel is in crisis, time for love?
Leslie is a therapist and part time drug dealer. It’s just occurring to her that she hates her job.
Dan’s six year old daughter thinks he needs to grow up. She may have a point.
161 pages of cinematic, neorealist comics by Salgood Sam. First in a two part story,
The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere
Graphic Novel - Drama
Lúcio and Sonia are two East Bay college graduates who, after struggling to control destructive powers they’ve suddenly gained, decide to leave their lives behind. After crossing paths in a sleepy diner, they embark on a winding road trip across the western United States with a friendship born out of uncertainty and hope for a new beginning, all the while trying to outrun their mortality.
Food/Love
Graphic Novel - Drama
FOOD/LOVE is a gastronomic experience for the heart, where memory and flavour are deliciously combined.
Specially prepared for you is an à la carte menu with each course individually selected to pair with a memory from a life well lived.
Sample a taste of childhood Steak & Kidney Pudding, followed by a first date Lobster Arancini, a Mother’s Day breakfast in bed Laksa, and much more.
The chef invites you to savour every morsel and relish every panel of this lovingly crafted tale.
Breakwater
Graphic Novel - Drama
A loner and an introvert, Chris has worked in Brighton’s Breakwater Picture House for many years. It's the kind of job that people drift through; friendships flourish for a time, contained within their allotted hours and place...and then fade when people move on. When Dan joins, Chris finds someone who breaks out of these designated boundaries and gradually becomes a part of her life. But as she learns more about her new friend, she must decide if the solitary life she's built is the one she's actually most suited to after all.
Macbeth
Graphic Novel - Drama
A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Macbeth, with Shakespeare's full, unabridged text. Influenced by the witches and magic of Macbeth, K. Briggs’s lush new graphic novel rendition of the classic provides a new interpretation of the Scottish play. Briggs, as a Shakespeare reader (and performer) from age twelve, brings their lifelong love of the Bard to this work.
Blessed Cure
Graphic Novel - Drama
Blessed Cure is an awarded LGBTQ+ graphic novel by Brazilian author Mário César that portrays what it is like to have a life marked by
homophobia and the effects of sexual reversal therapies - Conversion Therapy - that try to cure something that is not a disease.
Since he was a child, Acácio do Nascimento was a different boy from others. He rather playing with dolls to playing soccer, the hula hoop
interested him more than cowboy pistols. Scared by the possibility of their son was a homosexual, Mara and Galdino submit Acácio since he was five years old to several treatments for him to become a normal boy like the others.
Mom's Boyfriend
Graphic Novel - Drama
A teenage boy (Rob Henderson) has always wanted to be a police officer like his father was before he died, now years after his father's death his widowed mother starts dating a man (Jim Louis) who is fresh out of prison. And soon Rob starts to worry that Jim might be a dangerous man.
The Rogue
Graphic Novel - Drama
The Rogue is a crime-riddled drama series that shows what it takes to push a good-hearted family man to a life of crime.