Santa Clara Public Library

Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2022 season! We will enjoy celebrated classics, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM on Zoom.

To RSVP for this event use this link: bit.ly/gnbookclub2022

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com), through LINK+ (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About June's read: "Meet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of a world-famous Brazilian writer, Brás spends his days penning other people's obituaries and his nights dreaming of becoming a successful author himself—writing the end of other people's stories, while his own has barely begun.

But on the day that life begins, would he even notice? Does it start at 21 when he meets the girl of his dreams? Or at 11, when he has his first kiss? Is it later in his life when his first son is born? Or earlier when he might have found his voice as a writer?

Each day in Brás's life is like a page from a book. Each one reveals the people and things who have made him who he is: his mother and father, his child and his best friend, his first love and the love of his life. And like all great stories, each day has a twist he'll never see coming...

In Daytripper, the Eisner Award-winning twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá tell a magical, mysterious and moving story about life itself—a hauntingly lyrical journey that uses the quiet moments to ask the big questions." (via Goodreads)

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2022 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: Ghost World by Dan Clowes

FEBRUARY: Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

MARCH: Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn

APRIL: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

MAY: The Sandman Vols. 1 & 2 by Neil Gaiman

JUNE: Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

JULY: Habibi by Craig Thompson

AUGUST: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

SEPTEMBER: Y, The Last Man Vols. 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

OCTOBER: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine

NOVEMBER: Blacksad Vol. 1 by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido

DECEMBER: The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire